"Say Yay Yay!"

One of the things instructors encourage at schools and colleges is cutting-edges innovativeness and creativity. Young people are encouraged to be leaders instead of followers only, and even in cases where we are compelled to follow, since everything is a derivative of something that has been done before, we must add to, and innovate on the things we are compelled as humans, to use as templates for products we generate. This is how humans make progress and produce new  and useful items, but I find that young people in the local entertainment industry are very good at copying and poor at innovating. There is nothing more exemplary of this than when we hear young Kittitian entertainers dropping the letter "H" like the Jamaicans do, simply because they believe it is "sexier" to sound like the Jamaican artist they model than the local entertainers they really are. They simply cannot imagine that shouting  "Can you Hear me?" could possible sound just as "sexy" or "sexier" than "Can you Ear me?" Practice it.Engaging your letter "H" sounds just as good. "Trust me" on that one.
 While these local entertainers are trying to practise putting back their "H" in their expressions, they must also try finding another way to engage the attention of the audience other than by telling us to say "yay- yay!" and say it repeatedly as loud as possible every few seconds; and we can well expect to be asked to say "yay -yay!" again when other guest artists come on as time fillers.
There are far more interesting, entertaining and innovative ways to hold, keep and gauge audience interest than asking for "yay yays!" and there are few things more entertaining than unpredictability, but it takes thought, study and imagination, plus a determination to be an innovator; to become a leader instead of just another  follower.