Commando is the latest single by UK based Ghanaian artist SLO featuring Jay Barns released on Friday June 16th 2023. Derived from the popular Arnold Schwarzenegger movie “Commando”, the record is so titled to communicate how both artists have managed to rise above challenges thrown against them in personal battles they’ve faced. SLO keeps it […]
SLO & Jay Barns Go "Commando" On New Single
Commando is the latest single by UK based Ghanaian artist SLO featuring Jay Barns released on Friday June 16th 2023.
Derived from the popular Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Commando", the record is so titled to communicate how both artists have managed to rise above challenges thrown against them in personal battles they've faced.
SLO keeps it "cheesing" on the self produced Afrobeat track opening with a pre-chorus about the defiance of his struggles.
Jay Barns also reveals his determination to better himself and make his mama proud, putting it all on "Jah" to see him through.
Mixed and Mastered by SLO, the 3-minute single allowed the collaborating artists air their grievances, raising the commando in themselves to encourage their listeners fight through the hardships they may face in Life.
"Commando" by SLO featuring Jay Barns is out on all streaming platforms on Friday June 16th, 2023
Stream via link here
Jayburns modern AU. Either college or coffeeshop, whichever you can figure out more hilariously.
With a smooth motion Burns slid the relevant piece of paper underneath others, obscuring it, but not fast enough. “Is that -” Jay said, outraged. “It says you have a degree in Computer Sciences!”
"It was useful," the older man said, with a shrug.
That was hardly the point. “You’ve been getting me to help you with ridiculous computer problems all year!” He was aware his voice had gone shrill, and refused to care.
Burns propped his chin on his hand and smiled at him guilelessly. “Maybe I wanted an excuse to talk to you.”
"I find it infinitely more likely you wanted to be annoying." And he was annoyed. Other students with actual legitimate problems might have needed his help, his time, and Burns had wasted it.
"Anyone’s guess," Burns said easily. "Anyone’s guess. For old times’ sake -" He spun his laptop around. "This keeps freezing. Help me out?"
It was habit, or his innocent tone, that had Jay bending over to look at the screen. On it was a gaudy and quite creditably coded page chock-full of flashing hearts and sparkling glitter.
"Aarrrgghh," Jay said.
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(… I did both bc one line of the other one occurred to me and I was like ‘ooh, let’s write that then’, so, under the cut -)
"I wasn’t aware your last name was Marley,” Burns said, grinning, when Jay refused his latest offering: an unlikely concoction, heaped with whipped cream and an uneven smiley face in chocolate sauce. “Come on, Jay, where’s your festive spirit?”
"Somewhere behind that overwhelming smell of peppermint?" Jay said. Then that registered. "How the hell did you remember my full name’s Jacob?" he said, guarded but mostly just bemused; he’d only mentioned that in passing, if that, before a hurried ‘but if you absolutely HAVE to have a name, just call me Jay, now please stop threatening to sing and give me my boss’s order’.
There might’ve been a flicker of disquiet or panic in the barista’s eyes, but only for a moment, and then he said breezily, “I’m just that great at knowing my customers, boyo.”
"Customer? Half the time you give me my coffees for free," Jay said. "- Specifically so I have to sample your latest …" He eyed the peppermint-y thing that could only generously be called a latte. "Creation.""It’s the thought that counts, Jaybird," Burns said. "Birdie-boy. Mockingjay -"
"Oh shut up, Barty," Jay said, biting it out precisely, and Burns could not hide the wince at his first - the ugly shortening of his first name. Victory.
Except, no, Burns’s eyes went thoughtful, and then a grin started to spread across his face, brightening it.
"You didn’t have to look at my tag," he said, rolling the words on his tongue.
"I - shut up," Jay said, "bye," and he exited hastily. Not forgetting to take his questionable mint drink, though, and he sipped it and winced at the predictably terrible sugary-sweetness as he fought the wind on his way to work, but ended up drinking most of it, against the chill. Regardless of the trappings, he wasn’t about to turn down free coffee. That was surely the only reason he kept on coming back here, anyway.
