Wyclef Jean may not have achieved his presidential dreams but it is still very much on his mind with Columbia Records announcement that they will release a new six song digital EP from Wyclef on December 7th called If I Were President: My Haitian Experience,If I Were President: My Haitian Experience, includes "Election Time," a new song written in the wake of Wyclef's recent attempt to run for president in Haiti. The track is currently streaming here:
"This song is inspired by Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall,' with the chant, 'We don't need no education,'" says Wyclef Jean. "It is also inspired by Fela Kuti's 'Zombie.' It's the voice of the youth. It is the voice of this generation. It's the artist once again doing what the politicians should be doing. This is about inspiring the voice of this generation."
"Election Time" arrives with an extraordinarily powerful and beautiful video lensed in Haiti. Wyclef teams up with Haitian director, Steve Halloun to co-direct the clip. Halloun, a former student of the University of Miami Film School, like Wyclef, is deeply concerned with helping Haiti on all fronts. The video created jobs for local residents, including the actors and technical staff, while showing the world unfamiliar pictures of his native country.
"I have to show all the sides of Haiti," Wyclef Jean says. "There is still beauty in Haiti and I have to show the beauty and the ugly reality that is going to change. It will change."
