PATEA MAORI CLUB '1984' - Poi E.

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TE POI ! PATUA TAKU POI PATUA KIA RITE PA PARA PATUA TAKU POI E ! E rere ra e taku poi poro-titi Ti-taha-taha ra whaka-raru-raru e Poro-taka taka ra poro hurihuri mai Rite tonu ki te ti-wai-waka e Ka pare pare ra pī-o-o-i-o-i a Whaka-heke-heke e ki a kori kori e Piki whaka-runga ra ma mui-nga mai a Taku poi poro-titi taku poi e ***CHORUS*** Poi E whaka-tata mai Poi E kaua he rerekē Poi E kia piri mai ki au Poi E-E awhi mai ra Poi E tāpeka tia mai Poi E o taua aroha Poi E pai here tia ra POI... TAKU POI E! Repeat solo a cappella : Chanted by lead female Kaea. PATUA TAKU POI PATUA KIA RITE PA PARA PATUA TAKU POI E ! Verse & chorus repeated again, same sequence. Instrumental break, usually poi percussion. Then key change : repeat chorus on key change. At end of song : POI... TAKU POI E ! 4 times Then everyone chants at song's end : RERE ATU TAKU POI TI TA' TAHA RA WHAKARUNGA WHAKA RARO TAKU POI E! "Poi E" is a New Zealand 1984 number-one hit song by the group Patea Māori Club off the album of the same name. Its popularity is unique in New Zealand as Māori music rarely reaches popular status. Released in 1984, the song was sung entirely in the Māori language and featured a blend of Māori cultural practices in the song and accompanying music video, including Māori chanting, poi dancing, and the wearing of traditional Māori garments.[1] Not only did the song top the New Zealand pop charts for four weeks, but the single also became the biggest seller in New Zealand for 1984, "outselling all international recording artists. Today the song maintains its status as a cult classic in white New Zealand, as the group behind it, Patea Māori Club, was a one-hit wonder. However, for the Māori people, the song is much more important, as it became "the anthem of a new generation", the generation known as the "hip-hop generation" The song was written by Māori linguist Ngoi Pēwhairangi; the music was scored by Dalvanius Prime. Pewhairangi's intent in writing the song in such a way was to promote Māori ethnic pride among young Māori people in a popular format. The two faced indifference from record labels, so Prime produced the song and album under his self-made label, Maui Records. Without radio play and barely any commercial TV airing, a TV news story is credited with shooting the song up to #1 on New Zealand charts in March 1984. Its popularity that same year grew further when it was well-received by British listeners as the Patea Māori Club toured the United Kingdom, playing at the London Palladium and the Edinburgh Festival, as well as giving a Royal Command Performance. It also made a comeback in 2010 by reaching the New Zealand Top 20 after being featured in the successful New Zealand comedy film Boy. On May 24 that year it reached #3 "Poi E" and hip-hop In addition to the Māori cultural influences in the music video for the song, there are interesting influences from hip-hop culture present in the video. Among the most obvious are rapping and breakdancing, and the song itself "combined traditional Māori vocals and show-band and concert-party idioms with gospel and funk", two of hip-hop's own influences as major African-American musical genres. Hip-hop was mixed with the traditional Māori chanting and cultural music because the Patea Māori Club wanted to give the younger hip-hop generation "their language and culture through the medium they were comfortable with", that medium being hip-hop. At the same time as it was helping to teach the children about Māori culture, hip-hop also "provided Māori youth in particular with a viable substitute for their own culture. Hiphop already had had a hold on the people of New Zealand and the Māori in particular, and Poi-E reinforced it and Māori hip-hop crews continued springing up throughout all of New Zealand.