Haitian Divorce by Steely Dan | cece_2_cents Music Reaction [Now Chitchat Vlogs] 

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" Papa Doc" Duvalier was ruler of Haiti, and they had a campaign to invite people to their country for a quick and easy divorce without your significant other having to be there. The character hooks up with the local gigolo for a one nighter, and gets pregnant. The shock is when the husband realizes that it ain't his because that gigolo was dark and had kinky hair. Thanks for reacting to this. Fantastic song!

Steely Dan has NO bad songs, and that's a fact. Have all of their albums. "Night By Night" is their most funky track … ever. You'll love it

The talk box is so we'll used in this song!

Their lyrics paint a little video of your own in your head. Hence the line “Now we dolly back Now we fade to black “. Killer band in every way.👍

I love this song...

Cece thanks for the Steely Dan you just made my weekend and please don’t forget about Doctor Wu loved your reaction keep smiling🥰

Please react to Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters

Total vibe song...what a mix of layers.. And a strange tale to boot.

"Papa" is Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, president of Haiti 1957-1971. He invited Americans to Haiti for quick and easy "no tears, no hearts breakin'" divorces. Great tune, great reaction.

I have already left a list of SDan songs on your first SDan reaction but Black Friday along with all of the others should be listened to at least

So good. These guys never settled for anything less the near perfection. The used a multitude of the best studio musicians and back round vocals. And we're so talented themselves. They always knew what they wanted and would never comprise on that sound in the end. I really don't think they made a bad song. You should really dive into these guys!

Love steely dan! Would've loved to have seen em live back in the day. Excellent reaction...

You’re so pretttty have to say it love your insight you rock! \m/

Very happy to see you review this song. They have so many songs that in positive you've heard before but don't realize it. I'm not giving orders (lol) but if you can could you please do Black Cow or Aja next. Thank you again.

Maybe you can wear Green Earrings when you listen to "Green Earrings" from this Album. I love the talk box guitar in this tune.

Smooth and pleasant. This is the kind of song that just makes you feel good. I think music like this is good while you are doing something tedious like painting, it will take your mind off your work. Great reaction, stay safe and take care.

Here are some more SD songs to check out: Do It Again Reelin’ In the Years Black Cow Aja Deacon Blues Babylon Sisters

That freaking GROOVE! Damn!🔥

There is so much more Steely Dan to discover, I suggest Deacon Blues, Peg, or My Old School.

40 years of the best most original creative Groovin brilliantly-composed and produced pop music by the most prolific duo ever! Do yourself a favor, time travel a bit(almost 30 years) to the last album and very last song Donald Fagen/Walter Becker recorded together, “everything must go” from the album of the same name!!

Another great reaction there. Please keep them coming.

It's nice to see you enjoying that song! It has such an elastic reggae groove to it."Black Cow" is another great funky SD groove, you might like. and may have heard part of before. Kanye West sampled the beginning part of it for one of his songs.

Oh and Time out of mind will sound like something you would listen to at a family reunion. But the meaning is pretty dark. But a great song. Always gets me moving and honestly makes me feel a little emotional because I think of my family gathering when it comes to the music of this song. Not subject. lol

Some babies grow in a peculiar way...

why?

**THE BACK-STORY** (long post) Reggae was almost unknown to most Americans when this album was released in 1976. The only thing like reggae we'd tasted before were some occasional licks from Eric Burdon & WAR, such as "Spill the Wine" (a neat cut from the Summer of 1970, worthy of future review). However, Don and Walt were not your typical American songwriters. ---------------------------------- The early '70s was a fairly easy time in the generally uneasy history of Haiti. The regime of "Baby Doc" Duvalier was a brutal, authoritarian shit-show, and the country was (as always) the poorest in the hemisphere, but after Nixon restored U.S. aid in '71, its tourist trade flourished. The Duvaliers (pere et fils) took measures to cultivate Haiti's reputation as the "Nevada of the Caribbean" -- an adult paradise where moneyed white foreigners could get away and gamble, get high, get their freak on, and get a cheap and easy divorce. (One might sat that time was Haiti's "Hai Day".)🙃 Of course, all this merriment took place before: The successive epidemics of African Swine Fever and HIV/AIDS in the '80s and '90s; Baby Doc's downfall in 1986 and the unstable regimes that followed; The military coup and Hurricane Jeanne of 2004; The Four-Hurricanes-in-a-Month and the Two-School-Collapses-in-a-Week of 2008; The 7.0 Port-au-Prince Earthquake that killed ~150,000 people in 2010, and; Hurricane Michael in 2016 -- all of which have had a decidedly adverse effect on life and real estate on the West Side of Hispaniola that continues to this day. (And WE think WE have it bad...) ------------------------------ The line "Now we dolly back/Now we fade to black" refers to how scenes of sexual intimacy were once commonly translated to film. The following guitar solo is pure, explicit, musical pornography. ------------------------------ Part of the charm of this song lies in understanding that interracial relationships and children were neither as common nor as socially accepted in the '70s as they are today. So when Babs' baby pops out nine months later, way darker than either she or Clean Willie ("It changed! / It grew! / Then everybody knew! / Semi-mojo -- who's this kinky so-and-so?"), one can just imagine Aunt Mildred and the whole famdamily (hell, the whole damn town!) freaking TFO. ----------------------------- Finally, let it be known that Steely Dan is the deepest, richest rabbit hole in all of music. The oeuvre of Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, and Steely Dan numbers almost 200 tracks and virtually every one of them could have been released as a hit single. Seriously, the shit those dudes left on the cutting floor was better than most artists' best.