Should we channel all our energies into Ananda Alerts or split them down the middle to accommodate a possible solution which may very well be a 'Good Girl Gone Bad' Alert? How many of our 12 and over year old children (especially girls) turn out mising, (not indefinitely) but return home when they have sufficiently fed their appetites of indiscretion and revelled in their acts of defiance and selfishness? When do we issue AAs and what are the parameters of qualification? I ask that seriously because if checked - some of the ’children’ who go missing when ’found’ or ’returned’ - our jaws would drop like comets plumetting to earth from shock or sheer envy by the revelations of their rendezvous doing the time we were busy consuming our sharp energies, putting stationary through the grind, shattering nerves, inciting greater paranoia, filling air time and employing all other possible resources simply to locate them.
Is it any wonder this song so aptly titled by Tarus Riley and Konshens comes readily to mind...?
Good Girl Gone Bad :
[Intro:]
Head concussion (yo Tarrus)
Well, who cyan hear dem a go feel mi seh
When you finga mash no badda cry mi seh
Alright den...
[Verse 1: Tarrus Riley]
Dem big inna body
And will tell yuh dem ready
Mi nuh need no glass fi see dem force ripe
And thru bad company some likkle pickney
Nah tek no talk a straight road, a street life
[Hook:]
Mama likkle princess gone bad
Daddy's likkle angel bruk out
Mama likkle pearl, tell mi seh she ready fi di world
Walkin' out...
[Chorus:]
Just anodda good girl gone bad
Once she was a good girl but now she gone bad
Story of a good girl gone bad
And she don't know what she have
Driving the family mad
Good girl gone bad
Once she was a good girl but now she gone bad
Story of a good girl gone bad
And she don't know what she have
Driving the family mad
[Verse 2:]
[Konshens:]
She go suh hard
Who she impressing
The shortest clothes dem she always dress in
[Tarrus:]
She loves to drink, she's into smoking
And ecstasy, she's already floating
[Konshens:]
Mi seh a whole heap a man dem gyal yah back it up pon
From inna di church, di school bus, di taxi or minivan
And if you follow dem gyal yah,
Dem mek you bawl fi yuh madda from behind the prison bars
Worse if yuh a star nuh gih dem no par
[Hook:]
Mama likkle angel gone bad
Daddy's likkle princess bruk out
Mama likkle pearl, a tell mi seh she ready fi di world
Wah tek dis likkle girl
[Chorus:]
Just anodda good girl gone bad
Once she was a good girl but now she gone bad
Story of a good girl gone bad
And she don't know what she have
Driving the family mad
Good girl gone bad
Once she was a good girl but now she gone bad
Story of a good good girl gone bad
And she don't know what she have
Driving the family mad
[Bridge:]
Who cyan hear dem a go feel mi seh
When you finga mash no badda cry mi seh
Who cyan hear dem a go feel mi seh
And when you finga mash no badda cry mi seh
Aright den...
[Verse 1: Tarrus Riley]
Well, dem big inna body
And will tell yuh dem ready
Mi nuh need no glass fi see dem force ripe.
Tarrus, and thru bad company some likkle pickney
Nah tek no talk a straight road, a street light
[Hook:]
Watch yah...
Mama likkle princess gone bad
And mi seh daddy's likkle angel bruk out now
Mama likkle pearl, tell mi seh she ready fi di world
Walkin out...
[Chorus:]
Just anodda good girl gone bad
Once she was a good girl but now she gone bad
Story of a good good girl gone bad
And she don't know what she have
Driving the family mad
Good girl gone bad
She was a good girl gone bad
Dis likkle good good good good girl gone bad
And now she don't know what she have
Driving the family mad
[Outro:]
Who can hear dem a go feel mi seh
When you finga mash no badda cry mi seh, hey
Who can hear dem a go feel mi seh
And when you finga mash no badda cry mi seh
Russian...
As i listen the song over and over again in my head and its lyrics and the commandinfg rhythm holds me prosoner and its sound keeps resonating again and again with amplified appeal, i wonder:
1. How many of our missing children are true ’Anandas’ on that they really deserve the attention and effort of the nation in retrieving or locatiing them?
2. How many of them were actually abducted as most of the news item tend to lead us to believe?
3. How many of them are actually below the age of 12 (child) years old?
4. How many of them are females above 12 years old?
5. How many of these females are sexually involved with men/ boys?
6. How many of these females go missing after a heated argument with their parent/s or guardian?
7. Where were they last seen?
8. How many parent/s or guardian report that these midding children have returned home?
I am not only perturbed by the climbing incidence of missing children, but with the less than responsible corresponding behaviours of parents and guardians who by their action or spoken intent may be the direct cause of the child going missing or in some other form, influence the child’s dangerous behaviour.
What do you think?
React… Reflect… Reciprocate….!
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