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Exactly. If it’s just about indulging some angst, then people should at least be straightforward about it. They just need to stop trying to have their cake and eat it too – stop pretending it’s just intentional irony when they do stupid harmful things for attention, stop trying to rationalize their casual misogyny and homophobia. Either admit you condone that or jump ship and call it what it is. The punk scene was hardly a perfect one, but at least some effort was made by the vets and the people involved to occasionally tend their own flock when it came to hate groups or bands wandering into harmful territory. And if they couldn’t, those bands or people were usually ostracized.
You expect some kids to do this kind of thing, and for some people to be attracted to it for the same reasons. What’s weird is this campaign going on through some of these milk-toast blogs and indie music sites to downplay or rationalize activities they might normally condemn without a second thought. For God’s sake, people made a bigger deal back when that ding dong from Waaves tried to play a show high on pills a couple years ago. I’m still trying to nail down the angle here. Maybe they’re too afraid to buck the trend until they see which way the wind will ultimately blow on this one? More media-muddied water in the cultural well, I guess. Another day, another dollar.
Finally somebody has the balls to say this stuff is garbage. Didn’t about a billion rappers and rock bands do this ultra-sensationalist shock me shit already? The only reason anyone paid any attention to OF to begin with is because people like those wonderful folks over at Pitchfork insist on trying to intellectualize music as a way of relating to it. These assholes have people set on some kind of cultural wild goose chase, trying to rescue their music from their personalities. Of course, when they start slapping girls at shows all those lyrics no longer seem so ironic all of a sudden. Don’t worry. Any day now they’ll write up a new feature or a blog that should clear all this up.
Seems to me that these are just 19 year old kids that don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, as is the typical of the condition of being 19. Like most teenagers, they do and say whatever is going to turn heads. When you get a little distance from the media blather it starts making perfect sense.
Such bad dudes. We’re gonna get so many awesome commercials out of this album. I’m so excited!!!
Great song, good video. Can’t wait to hear more from this band? Do they have a full length coming out any time soon?
I bet he comes out with his own clothing line soon.
Devendra Banhart is the biggest attention whore I have ever seen. I wish I could take a picture of that shitty moustache back in time to Pitchfork and all those bloggers who were hailing this guy as some kind of super authentic folk guru back in the early ’00s. Remember those interviews about how they had to record him alone in a living room because all the modern studio equipment freaked him out? Man, that guy sure knows how to work an image.
* make that please STFU
Agreed. I don’t see why anyone would argue about whether it’s folk or not, as though that means anything. Did he say somewhere that all of his music was going to be folk from now on? I’d assume since it’s under the BE moniker that he’d go back to a broader array of instrumentation, with less traditional( i. e. less boring) song structures. But I guess if it isn’t folk it’s got to be emo. And really, any modern bands trying to fit into some traditionalist folk template these days are just selling an image. The more limitations they and their purist critics place on them in order to lend this weird illusion authenticity only make it more inauthentic. Can we plus STFU and just listen to the music?
I’d be willing to make a good size wager that the majority demographic of Das Racist’s demographic is self deprecating white male twenty somethings scratching their heads and wondering if they’re supposed to more sensitive or less, so it’s a little difficult to tell the movement from the market. We all love satire because we like feeling superior, but it’s not really worth much for getting people off their asses to take social action. Mostly it just makes the pandered to more smug and complacent, and the satirized more bitter and obstinate.
I only mentioned them once, and I think I was the only one. I thought I made it clear that I was referring to them among many others, but let me reiterate that I was. I only singled them out specifically because they’re the most prominent and popular of the batch, and because they provide no place on their own site for public feedback or discussion, unlike Stereogum.