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Winnow
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Die Antwoord

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To start with, I'm totally out of touch with music. It's pretty well established that the 70's-90's are all I even have a remote clue about when it comes to music.

Somehow I ended up watching a Die Antwoord music video on youtube. It was pretty much "wtf did I just watch?" So I watched it again. Is this good or bad or just freaking strange.

Die Antwoord is a South African band, sort of rap I guess. read in comments that some call him the Eminem of South Africa.


First video I watched was "Enter the Ninja"

I'll spare the intro (all of their videos have long ass intros before the songs starts)

https://youtu.be/cegdR0GiJl4?t=42s

Basically the guy rapping about being a Ninja and the girl (his wife IRL) saying she needs his protection and to be her Samurai......what? Ninja/Samurai, which is it!?

He seems to rap fast, kinda like Eminem. The male and female singers are both near Albinos with blonde everything.

Next video I watch is "Baby's on Fire"

https://youtu.be/HcXNPI-IPPM?t=2m10s

I skipped the long intro but his wife plays his sister in this one and they have subtitles even through they're speaking mostly english.

That was sufficiently stranger and different that the first video so I watch another. "Ugly Boy"

https://youtu.be/uMK0prafzw0?t=26s

Not as long an intro but I cut it out anyway. This one has the girl singing about loving her Ugly Boy. The video is filled with "ugly" people. The bass player from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maryln Manson, and others. Pretty fucking wierd buy has it's own style.

Last video I watch is one they made after Lady Gaga asked them to open for her in South Africa. They took offense to this and wrote this song in response. More crazy shit. It's called. "Fatty Boom Boom"

https://youtu.be/AIXUgtNC4Kc?t=1m31s

I noticed in most of their videos they go out of their way to offend race relations, dressing up as black people, etc. Not sure what that all means when it comes to South Africa and apartheid.

Anyway, this isn't even that new. I think from last ten years. Some crazy shit. Watched it...not sure what to think, am I out of touch, is this good/bad/fucked up...so I watched it again.
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Re: Die Antwoord

Post by Boogahz »

Get more Die Antwoord in the movie Chappie. :P
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