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party record with a siren
2stepfan said:Ironic, I thought it was...
nah - it's a crunk thing
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2stepfan said:Ironic, I thought it was...
dubplatestyle said:i have to admit i did like "galang" a lot more when i didn't know who made it, where it came from, what it all meant, etc etc.
blissblogger said:all the evidence would suggest the opposite actually -- a kind of inverse sexism/racism is at at play, in fact -- A/ a "girls just wanna have fun", quasi-feminist sympathy vote c.f. le tigre getting allowances for making defective dance music cos it's diy spirit innit, and B/ an exoticizing that equates all brownskinned peoples as the same, and beyond criticism by dint of their skin
Flyboy said:"you might be shocked to discover that there are people out there who don't actually agree that (any or the majority or some of) Le Tigre's music is "defective dance music".
2stepfan said:I suspect a lot of this boils down to trendy music snobs getting pissed off that their "secret" music is crossing over -- which I think is silly cos it doesn't sound all that much like favela funk or dancehall to me. It's pretty obviously a pop hybrid -- it's got a touch of dance music scenius, but it's also got some pop producer scenius too, IYKWIM. A touch of Pete Waterman.
say instead of Peaches giving the roland groovebox to MIA etc etc, it was actually Peaches who got really taken with dancehall/reggaeton/rio funk/etc etc, and who decided to do a project called, i dunno, Beeyatches maybe... now her first record was well-done, tough techno beats, i liked it a lot, she's very good live, so there's no reason to think she couldn't pull off a meta-shanty record a la Arular. but people might look askance at her doing the faux-patois.
puretokyo said:Nicely summed up, mate.
She's just releasing music she likes/thinks is trendy - I see no difference between what she does and what Bjork does.
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Obviously this argument could go on for ever, but terrorism chic, whoever said that was spot on in my opinion, and that bit about "homeless music," I see it as faux-progressivism, pseudo-radical, etc. I think there are a lot of things that can be said about Bjork but I don't think this is one of them. The politics do matter, if you ask me.
Ness Rowlah said:I guess in my twisted mind I see it as some sort of "celebration of Sep 11";
not good whatever your religous or political views are.
WOEBOT said:also, after much consideration, i don't buy this "if you read 'such and such' as 'such and such'" thats to say in the manner of reading undie hiphop as the new rock music. matos ran this script on MIA, the new "iko iko" etc. on the one hand its lazy journalism (tsk, lol) on the other its so non-commital.