I halfway expected that to be a rick rolling…
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I nearly cried. After all these years, the song went back into the Top 20 in the UK
yeah, all those royalties thrown at you can be quite irritating if they end up in your eyes.
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I don’t believe you.
I do believe that you like Under Pressure and have somehow allowed yourself to be tricked into thinking that the weak impersonation of the original was “not all that bad.”
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Hey, when I’m horrible, I’m (1) honestly and transparently horrible, and (2) repentant. Though I’m not sure how many would consider Die Antwoord to be a chaser.
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Funny story from Julia Sweeney’s one woman show where she went to pick up her adopted daughter in China, well, I’ll let her tell it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNLmxO9IAAc#t=2m33s
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I’m not personally a fan of Die Antwoord, but they seem to be popular around these parts…
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I like their music videos. The music itself, not so much. (Except for ‘Fatty Boom Boom’ which really was incredible. To my ears anyway.) But I don’t think Jones (aka Ninja) and du Toit (Yolandi) were ever going about this as solely a musical act. Jones is pretty cagey about Die Antwoord but even he has been explicit about how the music videos are a distillation of the DA project.
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Thank goodness for commercials on YouTube.
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Oh, I’m with you on that!
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I have both songs on my phone so it takes me a beat to distinguish between Under Pressure and Ice Ice Baby when it comes on during my workout.
I’m not disappointed either way
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My SO saw Pure Prairie League many moons ago and said they played their hit “Amie” THREE times during the show. I think it was the only song anyone in the audience knew.
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well since we’ve all heard the most detested song in human history, it seems like a good time for the best song in human history:
and a close second:
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Cool. I can appreciate their artistry for sure… Seems like a more modern multi-media type project more than just a band, then.
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Effectively. The band sort of spun off from an art collective, used to do animated interstitials for South African TV among other things. IIRC, Die Antwoord was originally a one off parody of certain poor white South Africans who coopted certain aspects of Black and American pop culture. Sort of like an African Trailer Park Boys. It took off, and grew in complexity and weirdness.
So at the very least they’re interesting. The music can be a little hit or miss sometimes.
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Ok look, when someone asserts how much they like universally detested songs as many times in as quick succession as you have I start to think that maybe this is the only way they can bear the pain these songs cause any sentient being, smile, smile although your heart is breaking. It really helps you know.
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My Frog Song is not like your Frog Song.
However, getting to the topic at hand, I can think of a song that makes most (quite possibly all) women throw up at least a little in their mouths (and makes a fair number of men bilious as well):
By Ottawa’s “finest”, I’m ashamed to say. Do I win the Interwebz?
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Oh, absolutely. I like to think of DA as a black mirror of modern pop-culture, particularly that of music. They do this not only through caricature but also through a smorgasbord of references—lyrical, visual, and musical (many of their core melodies are assembled from the bones of bygone one-hit wonders). When you look back on all of the spectacle and celebrity that infused the last thirty years of music and how it reflected what people wanted out of their pop culture, you begin to understand why they decided to call themselves ‘The Answer’.
I don’t know enough about contemporary South African culture to expound on the sociopolitical component of DA, so I’ll leave that for someone who does.
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Actually I was not familiar with Under Pressure at the time. But it isn’t an impersonation, is it’s own thing. The song uses a melodic loop, but so do a lot of rap and hip hop songs - especially the older ones.
And while not as edgy or refined as other rappers, especially in the years after, it wasn’t bad for the time.
"Shay plays on the fade, slice it like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast
Other DJ’s say, “damn"
If my rhyme was a drug
I’d sell it by the gram”
Music wise, it is similar to like Beastie Boy’s Sure Shot, which also just takes a loop of a melody from another song and lays on drums and other embellishments. Though yes, the Beastie Boys are better rappers.
Here is one of his newer - and by newer I mean 1996 - songs with The Bloodhound Gang. I like it too.
Also I acknowledge I have nostalgia tied to it.
Depends on the song. Some of the “bad” songs that were very popular, I acknowledge as bad. But hell, if it is on the radio I still listen.
Like candy bars are horrible food for you, but you still indulge some times.
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But that’s a novelty song.
How about this?
