Barbados
Barbados is both a famous spot for tourists in the Caribbean and the name of a famous Swedish "dansband" (dance band in English). It's a cheezy music genre that's popular in Sweden for old people to dance pair dance to. It resembles how the music from Eurovision Song Contest used to sound before they got modernized. I guess the gay singer of the band Barbados didn't know that homosexual acts are illegal in Barbados and that the colonial era law bears a maximum sentence of life in prison for being gay. Maybe the band would have chosen another exotic name then. I prefer the musicians from the island Barbados instead of the Swedish "dansband", both Rihanna and Grandmaster Flash originated from Barbados, which used to be colonized by Great Britain. This is why they still speak English which the tourists can appreciate. My friend Christofer and I arrived by a cruise ship and after heading into the capital of Bridgetown to get some Barbadian Dollars we...