kind of incredible to read the interviews about the album and their love of 70s/80s pop (they have great taste btw) then hear the single which is basically likeable but naff funky disco house (and depressingly UNfunky - if you think its funky, you must listen to more actual funk, or chic at least, though i do like it more before pharrell comes in).
forget human after all, whats more incredible is how easily people get swept up into mega campaigns for once great/important artists making so-so music (see: bowie also).
zhao has a point about the western bias in the western media but then what dyou expect, we are in the west. you could promote the shit out of african music but for most people, unless its something with a massive pop appeal like oliver twist, that cultural distance is always going to be a barrier to engaging with it (and yeah, that barrier is due to eurocentricity too, but until african labels aggressively/arrogantly promote their product overseas like america and the uk do, we might be stuck with it).
