When in Bermuda...... look out for upward gusts.

So it began.
With fifteen eliminations and 50 defeats to go, teams lined up... some in eager anticipation and some in shorts, (Bermudas!!) for the three-hour, $2 million extravaganza at the Trelawny Stadum in Jamaica.
An event featuring more than 2,000 singers, dancers and other performers. Also, headlining such respectable carribeanians as Sir. Garfield Sobers, Sean Paul and Shaggy.

In India of course; we being an audience not easily accepting of cricket mania, hype or gala star studded openings; the extravaganza was not aired.
SET MAX deciding instead that the people staying up until 3 AM on a week night in their new blue cricket jerseys, would much prefer a rerun of a movie entitled "Chori Chori Chupke Chupke" about Raj and Priya who are newly married. Priya is pregnant, but due to unexpected circumstances, she loses her child and is unable to conceive again. Enter Madhoo, a prostitute who is willing to become surrogate mother for the couple. Their relationship becomes entangled with a love triangle when Madhoo falls in love with Raj.

So any way, the world cup has an Official Song! Now I am not sure how the branding on something like an official song works? Is it like clothing sponsors? "Buy the banjo! Official string instrument of the world cup!" Or is it more like that Shakira song for the football world cup? Except, that song could have been a Michael Bolton cover for all that mattered! It's lyric and musical merit are about as consequential as Wyclef Jean, yes there was a guy on stage with Shakira. Yes I know I just ruined your fantasy.
Well, this world cup song features the voices of Jamaican-born Shaggy, Barbadian entertainer Rupee and Trinidadian Faye-Ann Lyons. It is called "THE GAME OF LOVE AND UNITY" and makes about as much sense as any Shaggy song does.
But, what the hell. It is fun, upbeat and doesn't endorse gold teeth and recreational homicide. I like it!
You can download or listen to it here.

"This is it, one big game, that you cannot miss.

No matter who you are - everyone's on the list.

This is the game of life and we all are one.

So come along."