May 07, 2005

• Again?
• Isn't NWA about ripe for a Dread Zeppelin album?
• Should I be offended that this links to an audio track that uses the N word? Calling mofi political correctness police!!!
• No, you shouldnt. Because this is genius. See, she's not a black gangster, and she's not a rapper. But she's SINGING A GANGSTER RAP SONG. No one in history has ever thought of anything this brilliantly ironic. I personally think it makes all those people out there who choose what song to sing based on personal meaning to them or spend years writing their own song seem just a little bit silly. A white chick! Singing a rap song! Oh my! I have to go lie down!
• Oh... Ok then. I am not offended. Glad I had someone else to figure that out for me.
• I actually quite enjoyed this. I'm not entirely sure that the point of it is to be funny. There's something quite off-putting about hearing a familiar song performed in a completely unfamiliar context, something that makes you really stop and listen to what's happening. Like Tom Waits said -- listening to Mahalia Jackson singing in a church is very different from listening to Mahalia Jackson on an AM radio while you're driving across Texas. Take for instance the bluegrass cover of Gin 'n' Juice -- a lot of people goof on it because it's a bluegrass cover, but I think it's actually one hell of a recording, and made me look at the song in a way I hadn't before. There's a mix of pastiche and juxtaposition to it that I find quite stimulating.
• punk bitch never heard of usin' a fuckin' pop filter!?
• That'd be quite nice if the words weren't for shit.
• Ironic covers of rap songs by white people have been played out for years. Dynamite Hack killed it with their cover of Straight Outa Compton. It was funny then, but now it is just tired.
• Not to bust on the cool aloof indifference, but this cover was Straight Outta Compton. Dynamite Hack did Boyz in the Hood. Less Than Jake did Dopeman in '96 so maybe dynamite Hack was tired too.
• Tricky had Martina rapping about "I'm a black man/so I could never be a veteran." on the cover of Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos".
• ahhh, it's kinda cute. my guess as to why she did it? black, white, green, purple--we all listen(ed) to NWA and PE. Or should have!
• I like Duran Duran's cover of 911 is a joke better
• Damn I love Dread Zeppelin.
• although this is ancient even to me (and I'm pretty much clueless about rap music and nina gordon) I disagree that it's just a silly little joke. I mean, that may be what she meant, but the first time I listened to it, I found it almost transcendent. It took away all the anger and power, and all that was left was the empty, confused hurt behind it all that made the kid "crazy as fuck." It really seemed touching. I'm not gonna listen to it again now & it's possible it wouldn't strike me that way today, but I put it on a cover song compilation I put together a few months ago because i thought it did what the best cover songs do, which is give the song a new angle.
• I like it. Much in the same way I like New Found Glory singing Celine.
• Not to mention that Me First and the Gimme Gimmes fucking rock.
• martina rapping 'i'm a black man so i could never be a veteran' is timeless --- as was tori's cover of 97' bonnie and clyde --- but for totally different reasons.
• I like Duran Duran's cover of 911 is a joke Ecchhh! Heresy! That remake made me want to stab someone..
• Crap the first time, crap the second time. Shouldn't all you tossers be listeing to the Cat Power cover of Satisfaction? I mean, so long as underwhelming, cutesy and ironicly twee are your markers for quality?
• I'm too busy tossing to listen to you whine on about your pussy power.