shaka can you please do a thread on this with examples and explain the differences in sex and gender politics and production styles and so on. that wo

[Benny Bunter]

Shaka will have to account for all this if he's going to defend contemporary pop

 

[luka]

Becomez an oxbridge of entertajnment

 

[luka]

Shaka will have to account for all this if he's going to defend contemporary pop

Hes not thAt sophisticated his appeal iz wideeyed naif

 

[Benny Bunter]

Loads of videos have the guys choking the girls, which is disturbing tbh. There's an Intence one where he flicks his cigarette ash in a girl's mouth

benny b why must you destroy my innocence like this

 

[luka]

That was funnytho View attachment 23043

U can see his cat whiskers stjill inked on

 

[Benny Bunter]

Captured by the machine. Same in the uk with stage school. Lil sims went to stage skool child actres

It's not quite the same though is it?

Never even heard a Lil simz song tbh, but I reckon it's very different from the american disney meat grinder

 

[luka]

Our version is amateurish true but still homogenising and indoctrinating

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's not as porny

 

[luka]

No its not. Its englush not as satanic

 

[luka]

But theres a diffdrence between east london pirate and islington stage school. Albeit you can talmk compellingly about similaritiez

 

[luka]

And there are similarities

 

[luka]

Prescribed routes to success

 

[Benny Bunter]

there was a mini rinse fm golden age that produced some good tunes but it didn't last long

 

[Benny Bunter]

Soon tipped over into bland shite

 

[luka]

Context is vital
. Does ypur tjme got in to a scene ie does it have a social fun tion

 

[luka]

If it has no social function who cares

 

[Benny Bunter]

Same with the first wave of afrobeats cerca 2012 in the uk, I really liked it and was genuinely exckting for about the first year or so but it didn't last long

 

[Benny Bunter]

If it has no social function who cares

This is what @blissblogger got so right with rave

 

[luka]

A 6 out of 10 hardcjre tune had a social cunction; as fjller

 

[Benny Bunter]

I think these little windows of something new and good have got shorter and shorter to the point where you blink and you miss it