"the World Bank lets all the black kids starve while journalists stalk all the pop stars And Hear’Say’s the new kings of rock ‘n’ roll" - Heeeey Macarena!
Gregg Alexander was saying similar things in interviews in the New Radicals days, so this track is no doubt one of the candidates for the second album that never got made. What is surprising is Ronan agreed with the sentiments enough to sing the lyrics, commercial potential be damned.
"Former Boyzone star Keating has travelled to Ghana with Christian Aid. He added: "I met Ghanaian chicken farmers who are struggling because of pressure from cheap frozen imports from Europe. "The government in Ghana, like governments in many developing countries, is not allowed to help its farmers with subsidies or protect its own chicken market with higher tariffs on imports. "When they did try, the IMF put pressure on the government to back down.""
I like how he rhymes 'African genocide' with 'right by my side'
That's left in on the final version too, amazingly.
"the World Bank lets all the black kids starve while journalists stalk all the pop stars And Hear’Say’s the new kings of rock ‘n’ roll" - Heeeey Macarena!
Gregg Alexander was saying similar things in interviews in the New Radicals days, so this track is no doubt one of the candidates for the second album that never got made. What is surprising is Ronan agreed with the sentiments enough to sing the lyrics, commercial potential be damned.
"Former Boyzone star Keating has travelled to Ghana with Christian Aid.
He added: "I met Ghanaian chicken farmers who are struggling because of pressure from cheap frozen imports from Europe.
"The government in Ghana, like governments in many developing countries, is not allowed to help its farmers with subsidies or protect its own chicken market with higher tariffs on imports.
"When they did try, the IMF put pressure on the government to back down.""
Little bit of politics, there...