“Pat and pat and pat and crank!”
These words have gone viral since Barbadians, as well as outsiders, have been given a taste of Peter Ram’s new single Pat And Crank.
The accompanying video, which is posted on YouTube and is making the rounds on Facebook, is currently being brandished as “atrocious” and “disgraceful” by the majority of viewers.
In the video, Ram is shown standing in a studio, singing into a microphone, while images are flashed of young girls, meagrely dressed, grabbing, or “patting” their crotches, or flexing their legs while dancing on their head.
The winner of the Crop-Over Nation building Award in 2003 for his positive song lyrics in Blue, Yellow And Black, released the song last week, with lyrics encouraging female listeners to “pat . . . and crank” their vagina, while describing the appearance of this body part in different articles of clothing.
One viewer, labelled hitman2k07, commented one day ago: “I believe this should be banned from YouTube, and I hope Peter Ram realises he has gone from a serious artiste to an immoral joke, catering to the uneducated masses.”
At least 36 other viewers clicked “like”
to this post, and at least another 56 viewers “liked” a comment by fullavanilla86, who declared that they were “reaaallll shame to be Bajan”.
A comment under the YouTube video from reddawgkilla, seemingly the song’s producer Red Dawg, states: “. . . For people who talk bout the producer – I do riddim and truly do not believe you can tell me about ‘know better’. Small minds think small thoughts.
“If you can’t realise the humour in the song from the beginning, you have to be ignorant. If [it were] Lil Wayne, Drake, Kartel, Movado [or] any other artist besides a Bajan artist, y’all mouths [would be] buttoned shut . . . . Do [me] a favour and keep it shut. Ram mash up de dancehalls [with this] one, boss!”