Leo

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say what you will about them, their music, their image, etc., but the videos are still pretty insane. who else is doing nutty shit like this?
 

SecondLine

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say what you will about them, their music, their image, etc., but the videos are still pretty insane. who else is doing nutty shit like this?

really can't decide if this is brilliant or the worst fucking thing, but I guess the not knowing has a value in itself.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
i love south africa, its people, its music, and don't give a flying fuck about this stupid try-hard Die Antwoord shit.
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
the woman is mesmerisingly annoying, to the point where she may not be annoying any more.

i imagine the music is going to be used at 3000000dB by the FBI in future to smoke out cult leaders.
 

SecondLine

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i love south africa, its people, its music, and don't give a flying fuck about this stupid try-hard Die Antwoord shit.

this is the thing is that the big pulpy cartoonish offensive slush of it is appealing to me, but speaking as a complete outsider to the culture they (at least jokingly) claim to represent, it's quite obviously an offensive & reductive representation of it.

I mean clearly they're being ironic, but the irony feels presumptuous - like, who are they to black up & joke about tourists feeling threatened in Joburg? And beyond brute-force irony and a sort of shock value there's not really anything there.

Really though I know nothing about SA culture or how Die Antwoord are viewed in the country - would be interesting to know if they're actually controversial there, or just wearily tolerated.
 

zhao

there are no accidents
speaking as a complete outsider to the culture they (at least jokingly) claim to represent, it's quite obviously an offensive & reductive representation of it.

they don't represent jack SHIT of or in South Africa.

who are they to black up & joke about tourists feeling threatened in Joburg? And beyond brute-force irony and a sort of shock value there's not really anything there.

good point. it's very offensive.

Really though I know nothing about SA culture or how Die Antwoord are viewed in the country - would be interesting to know if they're actually controversial there, or just wearily tolerated.

they don't register in the minds of black Africans at all. probably with the desperate to be cool whites they are expressive of a kind of post Apartheid Afrikaner angst.

sorry but a little bit of socio-political background is necessary here:

despite Nazi level asshole behavior for hundreds of years, despite still owning 90% of land in SA while being only 10% of population, today white people over there complain about EVERYTHING. "employment equity laws are taking away our jobs!" "land redistribution efforts are taking away our farms!" "Africans make better music than us!"

At least that last point is true lol
 

droid

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Fountainhead1994.jpg


NINJAS BIBLE

i love this book more than anything...
busy reading it for the 5th time

i think i read it for the 1st time around 10 years ago...

i noticed during this 5th read (and was kind of amazed) at how much this book has pretty much 'sculpted' my current head space...

and that Die Antwoord blew up cos of what we learned from THE FOUNTAINHEAD...

there are SOOO many strange parrallells between Die Antwoords adventures over the last 6 years, and this story, which was first published in 1936!

the underlying principle of this juicy ass book is that there are 2 types of people in the world:
-parasites or creators

its easy to get ahead in life kinda quickly being a parasite...

but very difficult to get ahead in life being a truly original creator...

parasites eventually fall off and fade away because they feed off others like a tick...

while creators are rooted in the inexhaustible mystery of their inner being

there are obviously more parasites than creators in the world, and so parasites often get together and freak out when a super creator rizes to power

some parasites might even become maniacally obsessed with one super creator in particular and make it their lifes mission to 'bring down' this unstoppable force

the obsessive compulsive parasite will think of the super creator ALL the time

while the super creator might never even register the poor parasites existence

its pretty amazing stuff

i think the bottom line is:

humans dont really have any functional need for art, like they need food, clothing and shelter...

...but our souls need art to recognize themselves

xx
n

ps: and oh yes...

muddafukkaz either LOVE this shit

or they HATE it with all thier might....

guess who loves it
guess who hates it

lol ;)
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
sickening act

https://mixmag.net/read/die-antwoord-dropped-festival-hate-crime-news
This incident is not the first time Die Antwoord have been embroiled in controversy. In 2012 Yolandi was criticised for painting on blackface for the video to ‘Fatty Boom Boom’.

Earlier this year, Australian rapper Zheani aimed a series of disturbing allegations against Ninja in track ‘The Question’, saying he “trafficked” her to South Africa because he became obsessed with her resemblance to his and Yolandi’s own daughter. She also accused him of sexual abuse, intimidation, ritualistic torture and revenge porn.
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
Fountainhead1994.jpg


NINJAS BIBLE

i love this book more than anything...
busy reading it for the 5th time

i think i read it for the 1st time around 10 years ago...

i noticed during this 5th read (and was kind of amazed) at how much this book has pretty much 'sculpted' my current head space...

and that Die Antwoord blew up cos of what we learned from THE FOUNTAINHEAD...

there are SOOO many strange parrallells between Die Antwoords adventures over the last 6 years, and this story, which was first published in 1936!

the underlying principle of this juicy ass book is that there are 2 types of people in the world:
-parasites or creators

its easy to get ahead in life kinda quickly being a parasite...

but very difficult to get ahead in life being a truly original creator...

parasites eventually fall off and fade away because they feed off others like a tick...

while creators are rooted in the inexhaustible mystery of their inner being

there are obviously more parasites than creators in the world, and so parasites often get together and freak out when a super creator rizes to power

some parasites might even become maniacally obsessed with one super creator in particular and make it their lifes mission to 'bring down' this unstoppable force

the obsessive compulsive parasite will think of the super creator ALL the time

while the super creator might never even register the poor parasites existence

its pretty amazing stuff

i think the bottom line is:

humans dont really have any functional need for art, like they need food, clothing and shelter...

...but our souls need art to recognize themselves

xx
n

ps: and oh yes...

muddafukkaz either LOVE this shit

or they HATE it with all thier might....

guess who loves it
guess who hates it

lol ;)

did anyone here ever read fountainhead? like i'm starting to think that book is haunted, turns you into the devil. or do people who read that book are already that way in the first place?
 
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