ps suggesting the tag "fuck white people".

So I don't know enough about South African culture to decide, is Die Antwoord as horrifically classist (and possibly crypto-racist) as they seem? Some of their songs are pretty good but I always got an "upper class art school kids pretending to be 'white trash'" kind of feeling from it, and that shit is the worst.

^^ nailed it.

I mean I could be wrong, but as far as I know only about 10% of South Africans are white and I'm fairly sure they don't tend to be the ones who live like the entirely white casts of the Die Antwoord videos are shown living.

yeah, they came out of a viral net campaign launched by Sony i believe. They are indeed art college graduates, their basic schtick was to pitch "zef" to Americans(basically the white, poor Afrikaans who appropriate some mannerisms of the colonized African cultures after prolonged contact) as a novelty to laugh at. Their videos heavily appropriate Zulu iconography and elements without providing their context to amplify the "freak" effect. What they are doing is basically reviving the Victorian World Fair logic, you know tapping into the thirst for gazing to the "freaks" who were kept in a cage.

Fuck that, ukuleles used to be good before these fuckers got hold of them.

Anyhow, Robert Wyatt did the "singing about the structure of the song" thing back on the first Matching Mole album in the early 70s and that's literally the only time I've heard it done without being unbearable. Because you have to be as talented a songwriter as Robert fucking Wyatt to pull that shit off.

This is the theme to Garry's show / The opening theme to Garry's show / This is the music that you hear as you watch the credits / I'm almost halfway finished / How do like it so far / This is the theme to Garry Shandling's show

Nothing implied about songwriting talent but I liked it when I was a kid.

I still like it, that takes me right back to 6th grade. And I didn't even watch the show, I just rolled with a crew who liked that song (i.e. the outcasts who were too weird to be bullied but too square to be feared).

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=123180

I don't even want to share this to make fun of it, that just encourages them. Cf. BrokenCYDE, Attack Attack, Kreayshawn, etc. etc.

You mean how about borrowing another iPhone?

:)

It's too late for an ass whipping to help, at this point it would just strengthen their resolve.

Like, remember when FSU punched Moby? He just claimed that and it was a homophobic hate crime because they didn't know who he was and it happened near a gay bar (even though in the video you can hear one of them yell "look, it's Moby" or something close t that before they go after him).

LOL i totally forgot about that, good call.

Me too. 5'd without even listening.