Well, Crowhugger, mento is a Jamaican music tradition, sort of the predecessor to reggae. It's very similar to calypso, but with different rhythms, and the repertoire is based on folk songs and original songs, often with bawdy lyrics and lots of double-entendre, which makes some of very fun to sing for a 17-year-old Australian Chinese girl with ambitions towards becoming a calypsonian (professional singer and musician who performs calypso in "tents" at Carnival and other similar celebrations, often improvising insult and topical songs) and ethnomusicologist, collecting and studying calypso and English-speaking Caribbean folk music (although I am interested in both Trinidadian *and* Jamaican music) as then I can sing rude songs without being called out on it by my parents and teachers, because of all the symbolism. Lots of teenagers sing stuff that's really explicit.