Today's parang is not the same as the parang of times past. The parang I knew as a child were songs that had profound meaning and when one hears it, one can feel the Christmas vibrations. Now, parang has gone soca. Is any kind of bottle and spoon making parang now. It's like a rhythm section. Somtimes, the lyrics do not relate to Christmas, not even a little bit but somehow, the youngsters are gravitating to it. Soca artistes are now incorporating their style, lyrics and even rhythm to make soca parang. That is wonderful but, the true or real parang has died or is dying because, no one wants to continue the trend of creating the songs the way parang was intended to be. What now happens is, groups will sing all the old parang songs over and over every year, without anything new added to them. But with the soca parang, it keeps changing and is becoming more popular. Future generations will no longer know what is Spanish parang only if, they ''google'' it. So now soca parang is the "it" thing to welcome the Christmas season. Not forgetting, the original Spanish parang which is rarely played on radio stations and even pirates on the street.
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