Eek-A-Mouse captures its corona year in Sweden in new book | Entertainment
An odd collection of poems, songs, essays and wandering on the go – some sarcastic, others serious, others bland and the rest just purely humorous – sums up My Corona Year in Sweden 2020, the first book from reggae singer Eek- A mouse.
‘Mouse’, as he sometimes calls himself, has always been so creative in the music industry who does not care about being politically correct or people’s opinions about him. ” Bob Marley is the king, and I’m the clown prince“, he writes in the poem, Each brother at the opposite end, and he makes a lot of clowns around this coffee table book. But it’s the kind of clowns that turn Eek-A-Mouse into the cynical but wise Shakespeare hooker.
“I’m glad my book is out. I love writing, so I always write. I write everything down. I really want to make more books and movies. You have Hollywood and Bollywood, so I do Jahllywood. Ding ding,” he said. he The Gleaner, which gives its signature sign-off.
My Corona year in Sweden 2020, which has an Eek-A-Mouse without a bare torso with black Mickey Mouse ears and covered glasses that pose dramatically on the cover, is divided into sections: Jamaica, America, Black Lives Matter, Corona Year 2020 and Jahllywood. In his intro to Jamaica, Eek-A-Mouse writes, ” This is just a game. We’re taking gays back to reggae. Why do these homophobic Jamaicans hate me when they say I’m throwing up business?”
This homosexual reference is a kind of fixation throughout the first section, and it is explored in poems / songs with the title Homophobic Jamaicans, B *** y ** Party and Mackerel and Weh Yuh Deh, a hypothetical conversation between him and veteran artist Major Makrill. In this poem, his contempt for mackerel is strong, he even conjures up the entertainer for having his leg amputated, with his tongue in his cheek, ” Hi mackerel a weh yuh deh, sorry doctor cut off yuh bones, just ketch a mackerel in my fishing net, a fish without fins, jump on a limb, how does it feel to lose a bone. ”
And there is more, much more. But Eek-A-Mouse insists there is no malice.
“I and they have nothing. They see that I “b *** yar” up the store “, he said with a big smile, referring to suggestions from people in the dance hall – perhaps encouraged by his own love of posing with rainbow flags and wearing rainbow-colored clothes and glasses – that he is gay.
“I’m not a gyallis. Eek-A-Mouse loves and respects women, and girls love Eek-A-Mouse. Many times one of them big man wants to meet Eek-A-Mouse and he has a girl who is a big fan, and the girl wants to get close to Eek-A-Mouse.But you have to be careful with these girls.They will fool you.It was one that I thought was handsome, but she was broken.Eek-A-Mouse unique.I love that “I dress in all sorts of costumes; and the children love Eek-A-Mouse too, so my fan base is wide. When I’m in Italy, I dress up as the pope. I’m the black pope,” he explained.
The entertainer, who has been in Sweden throughout the pandemic, is not afraid to touch on sociopolitical issues, and he gathers it all in full-page musings with titles such as “Children separated at the border”, “Returning the Stolen Artefacts to”. Africa “,” Vaccine over complex development “,” Rigged voting “and” Does this make sense for the Kremlin “.
My Corona year in Sweden 2020 is half a picture book, half a writer, and the photographer captures the many moods in ‘The mouse no one can capture’.