To Electric Ave, already! Please!

Not only does Eddy Grant, singer/writer of look and act like the Jamaican version of my friend Dave Niemi, but both also have a ridiculous amount of spiritual power and leadership. All Eddy Grant does during the video is sit on the coach (much in the way my friend Dave does) and stare straight into the camera with a 30 mile stare, barking his vague observations of the world and cryptic solutions, yet—I would follow this man anywhere. And apparently everywhere because he’s taking Electric Ave everywhere. Rock it in the daytime, the nighttime, Miami, Kingston, and the playground. He just keeps barking that something is going on “out in the streets.” I’m not sure what, but he says it with such conviction that I believe him and urgently want to help. It’s just that he identifies the cause of problems in the world, out in the streets, as the multiplication tables, and I’m not sure how to even approach solving that problem. The irony. Until then, I’ll just keep laughing hysterically and trying to learn how to break dance to this strange casio keyboard noises and enjoy myself. I’m not sure what else to say about the video. There’s a motorcycle and Eddy’s drowning in his living room, so “Good God” somebody go “rock it in the streets” already.

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