Arno West wrote:
MIKA the better one wrote:
Arno West wrote:
Uh, what's all this about? Oh yes, bunch of twats swearing in Afrikaans? Anyone can do that (even the Yanks according to to Mika). It's easy, I've been doing that for 40 years. This fad will be gone soon cos dog turds on your lawn will eventually dry out, turn to dust and be blown away by the wind. So in conclusion: Die Antwoord my friend, will be blowin' in the wind.
Seriously though, this is not art, it's kak. FIN.
...it must suck for you being from SA and really not liking your best musical export.
Face it man there is a lot of talent there.
Mika, it doesn't suck. It has no bearing on my life in any way. I dislike a lot of things and I like a lot of things. It's of no consequence to me whatsover. I would not say they are SA's best musical export. Far from it. Now I'll add the standard disclaimer in order to avoid anymore discussion about this: IMHO. Just my 2c. Cheers.
Right, add the extremely strong opinion but don't stick around to long to see it through.
You are totally entitled to an opinion, and I am sure you share it with many others on this forum and in the general public. But, what I see in my opinion is that you are looking at a rough surface assumption of it. If all you hear is swearing then perhaps you were not listening.
What Die Antwoord are achieving is representing Afrikaans culture (no matter how hyper escalated) to a world audience. They tapped a huge market by putting on a show and making a hype around them. They put a whole lot more effort in to it then most SA groups. They did all that keeping their integrity intact, unlike other groups such as the Parlatones who would sell there own sister on a cereal box if it put them forward a step.
I don't intend to sway your extremely strong opinion in this Arno, but what I do intend is to stand by the fact that "I told you so." when very few other SA groups make it out of playing Splashy Fen as there biggest ever show. In the indie, alt, hip hop, rock market over here, which generally dominates trends world wide and in SA (3 years later) they are selling out every single show, with no opening act, no radio play, a few unique music videos, some pretty crazy songs that 90% of the people do not understand, but have come to love. They took a somewhat closed off culture and sold it to a huge market for all its worst qualities.
