The Honourable Wife-Beater was sent by the Messiah!

[sabotabby]

For those keeping track, the Honourable Wife-Beating, Drunk-Driving, Bird-Flipping, Crack-Smoking, Gangsta-Poppin' Mayor of Toronto now has had three songs written about him. During his probably completely illegal campaign kick-off barbecue, a local Calypso artist called De Carra, who is not very good, played a little ditty called "Toronto Is Strong."

While I thought nothing could beat "cost cowboy and rollback viceroy" from the Jenny James song, De Carra has her beat with this:

The number-one mayor
In North America
He was sent by the messiah
A man fighting for the taxpayer

Epic. I love it. I mean, I can't listen to it all the way through because it's so bad but I admire the chutzpah. God bless Toronto.

Meanwhile, are we getting a Scarborough subway? No one fucking knows. I suspect we'll get one the day I retire and no longer have to commute out there.

Comments

[the_axel]

De Carra appears to be the also-ran of the Toronto Calypso scene - getting as high as reserve competitor in the Calypso Monarch competition.

http://karabana.blogspot.ca/2012/07/2012-calypso-monarch-competition.html
http://www.decocoapanyol.com/2009/07/ocpa-2009-calypso-monarch-finalists.html

[sabotabby]

I admittedly know very little about the Toronto Calypso scene.

[the_axel]

Me neither. I was just intrigued as to who would write a song for Rob Ford so I had to look him up.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

You mean that's not parody???

[sabotabby]

I do not believe so, no.