Aug 1, 2017
Sweet Soca Dilemma
What is Sweet Soca? Is it soca that is groovy or just simply soca that is sweet? The criteria restrictive stance adopted by the organisers of Soca Royale has resulted in the decimation of the category so soca that was once the main drawing card at the event. Is it to say that a party song has to be fast? The category of Sweet Soca was designed just for those slower songs. Yet we have a case where Sweet Soca was won by a song more suited for the Party Monarch category. The very songs that the Sweet Soca category was created to protect had no answer to the infection sped up version of “Boat Ride”. Time to relook the restrictions on the Party Monarch category.
