Now. I didn't blog yesterday because I kinda wasn't "feelin' it", but I just kinda woke up inspired, so here we go. I really hope this makes sense. I have a history of being completely unintelligible when I haven't had my morning tea.
So my Second-Glance Sympathy was to this:
It's Die Antwoord's 'Enter the Ninja', and my dear friend Sam (who I love so very much) sent it to me, saying he liked it. At first, I thought he might have been drunk.
And then I realized that this is Sam we're talking about, so that is a definite possibility.
However, I also realized that Sam has taste in music, so there must be something to them if he liked them so much. So I listened again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
And soon enough, I realized that I liked them. Which is very weird, for a lot of reasons.
First off, I don't like rap. And they're rap.
Second, The people who are doing it look weird. Not like, trendy, Jrockers-weird, but like, why-the-heck-did-they-do-that-to-themselves weird. As much as I try to be accepting, I judge a little bit on appearance. I mean, come on. The chick's got a mullet. Can you blame me?
Third, it's supposed to be a commentary on South African (where these people are from) life and problems. It's a song about a ninja. Really? This is my skeptical face. HMMMM.
So all in all, I wasn't so sure about this song, or their other song, Zef Side. Though it is rather reminiscent of my own life. However, after hearing it a few dozen times, and reading the lyrics, I can kind of comprehend how it relates to having a difficult life in a mixed-racial and still somewhat tumultuous country.
Seriously, though? They look WEIRD. And I can't believe it, but now, I'm starting to like it.
The main singer, Ninja (hence, 'Enter the Ninja'--entering his life) has a strange haircut, which makes him look bald, but with a hedge, reminiscent of one that separates two neighbors in an up-scale housing complex, of growing on the top of his head to keep his ears from spying on each other. He also has that worn look, of either a very hard-knock life, or the I've-been-smoking-since-I-was-ten look. He also has quite a few tattoos, which may or may not be significant in his life. Honestly, I just think they're kinda cool.
The back up singer is Yo-Landi Vi$$er, who is, in basically every way, conventionally beautiful, in a Caucasian sense. She has thick blonde hair, pale skin, thin, but with a good-size chest, blue eyes, full lips, and a pointed, European nose. She is one of those girls that you could have seen in Vogue, modelling some abstract, yet 'fashionable' something, that some designer spit out in a fit of 'artistic-ness'. But then, you look again, and you see that she doesn't wear make-up. Normally, this shouldn't be a problem. But this girl has white-blonde hair, meaning white-blonde eyebrows and white-blonde eyelashes, which means you can't see them. It's kind of a weird thing to not be able to see a person's eyebrows, let me tell you. Also, (you can see it more in Zef Side than in Enter the Ninja) she has a MULLET. I've never liked mullets. Mullets are one of those things that you can always make fun of, and it'll always be funny. They're one of those things that if you get the worst haircut of your life, you can comfort yourself by looking in the mirror and saying to yourself, "Well, at least it's not a mullet". I AM NOT A MULLET-FAN. Suffice to say, I'm conflicted as to whether or not I can fully consider her 'pretty'.
The last member of the band is DJ Hi-Tek. I don't know anything about him. I don't even know if he exists.
So there's my synopsis on Die Antwoord, the South-African band. I do think that they are pretty zef, so if you have enough free time to listen to them/watch them fifty times, I highly recommend them.
Now...let's see if I can get anything done today! :D (maybe... :P)
<3-miso
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