Comments on: Die Antwoord: Baby's On Fire (music video)

By: Haz 0

Haz 0 — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:27:00 +0000

Good beat, annoying voice.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:52:00 +0000

Please Come to my Show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QcYxqvWCgg

Google is your friend:

Die Antwoord (Afrikaans for “The Answer”) is a South African rap-rave group whose style draws from the Zef counter-culture movement. [emphasis added]

Wikipedia: Die Antwood

Wikipedia: Zef

Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord is quoted as saying, “It’s associated with people who soup their cars up and rock gold and shit. Zef is, you’re poor but you’re fancy. You’re poor but you’re sexy, you’ve got style.”

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:50:00 +0000

Only picture I could find of him I just found online…

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:31:00 +0000

Mid to late 80′s to early to mid 90′s more off than on. Oregon Hill in the 90′s for a bit. I was the one across from the church that had smoke pouring out of my place lit with disco lights, video projectors and awful “satanic” music and sometimes loud sex acts. If the weather/humidity was right, you’d pass through a fog in the street in front of my place via my fog machine. I had an up and down relationship with my neighbors, usually “up” for the most part… or sometimes down when I needed to shoot at them (but I won’t get into that part).

Hung out with Burn the Priest for a little bit before they became Lamb of God. Hung out with some of GWAR (mountain biked with one of ‘em) and had relations with some of their assorted slaves. Beau (pictured below) pierced my nipple, etc. in the 90′s at some place on Cary St. near the Jade Elephant when that existed or not or whatever.

I grew my hair long after most everyone else cut their’s short during this time in the 90′s because fuck society, that’s why. ^-^

And, somewhere out there I had a doppleganger roaming around who looked literally exactly like me. My GF at the time and I saw him and tried to track him down but he escaped. He even had the same hair style and everything, it was bizarre. I wish we could have captured and killed him because I don’t think it’s good to have a doppleganger running around on the loose like that unless they are in cahoots with you.

There was much sex, violence and depraved fun, but also lots of frustration with the town as well, so I eventually jettisoned, never to return.

By: DewiMorgan

DewiMorgan — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:13:00 +0000

It can be hard to see the irony when it’s not laid on thick enough for US audiences to get. But yes, Die Antwoord are totally taking the piss here: not just of themselves, their community, their roots, and the music scene, but also of the viewer.

Kind of like Ali G’s sense of humor: they take the piss, but not from a “we’re better than that” angle, any more than BoingBoing’s delighted mirth at geeky excesses is a claim to be any better than geeks themselves :)

I find it delightful, at least in reasonable sized doses, but I can definitely see how it could be too much, especially if taken literally, or if you *live* in that kind of world and already have it up to the back teeth with the kind of abusive crap that they’re mocking.

By: Teller

Teller — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Really like the video/song. Yo-Landi reminds me of a Beverly Hills tweener with a filthy mouth.

By: dr_awkward

dr_awkward — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:32:00 +0000

Thankyouthankyouthankyou for introducing me to Die Antwoord.

By: dr_awkward

dr_awkward — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:31:00 +0000

I think that Ninja is just a character. If you doubt that, you should look into MaxNormal.TV, a musical group in which in which Watkin Tudor Jones (aka Ninja) fronts: “They were a South African hip-hop crew that performed live wearing three-piece suits while frontman MaxNormal delivered his motivational speaking style raps to the audience. He also illustrated his lyrics to help the audience follow which were projected onto a big screen above the live performers and are triggered live to the beat by Max’s personal assistant, Yolandi Visser, in a PowerPoint presentation style.”

By: dr_awkward

dr_awkward — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:26:00 +0000

It would make sense, since “zef” is a music genre that celebrates outdated (maybe specifically 90s-era) cultural memes.

By: Chauncey Scott

Chauncey Scott — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:24:00 +0000

Out there. Freaking out there.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:48:00 +0000

when Die Antwoord video is playing, ja? ja!
I am watching it, ja? ja!
I think it’s dope, ja? ja!
With a techno beat, ja? ja!
With a techno beat, ja? ja!

Baby’s on fire, ja? ja!
with pastel clothes on, she looks good!
Baby’s on fire, ja? ja!
with pastel clothes on, she looks good!

and her boyfriend, ja? ja!
and tattoos, ja? ja!
they have taken drugs, ja? ja!
and here’s her brother, ja? ja!
with a Ninja lightsaber, ja? ja!

when Die Antwoord video is playing, ja? ja!
I am watching it, ja? ja!
I think it’s dope, ja? ja!
With a techno beat, ja? ja!
With a techno beat, ja? ja!

(With apologies to HGICH.T, Die Antwood, and just about all of you)

By: waetherman

waetherman — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:05:00 +0000

I was too. Though I can’t say this song was to my taste, it is probably as offensive to my ears as Eno was to my parents.

By: bbonyx

bbonyx — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:02:00 +0000

Yeah, I’m fairly certain the main “Ahh!” melody sound behind Ninja in the chorus (3:29) is a sample of the opening hit from LA Style’s “James Brown is Dead”. And I’m pretty sure I heard some Mig 29 sampled in there too. Definitely kyping from the early 90′s… which is a *great* thing.

By: 10xor01

10xor01 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:59:00 +0000

I pity the fool who claims to have more bling than Mr. T!

By: CCinBmore

CCinBmore — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Wait, you too? First Xeni, now more. Jim Nelson I suppose?

What year was “back in the day?” I remember no cows.

By: rastronomicals

rastronomicals — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:33:00 +0000

This comment thread needs more Eno references.

By: exile

exile — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:24:00 +0000

801 Live (ftw also)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFkQ-d0OeEg

By: Tunacorn

Tunacorn — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:14:00 +0000

Amazing guitar solo!!!

By: supertsaar

supertsaar — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:57:00 +0000

Very Maaskantje.

By: Scott Rose

Scott Rose — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:56:00 +0000

I was initially glad that I was introduced to Die Antwoord. But this was like watching someone pound kittens with a hammer. Blatant “f you, I’m stoner white trash that got famous” messages don’t do it for me. Just makes me wish that was a real gun, instead of a pipe…

By: Sinead Dowding

Sinead Dowding — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:27:00 +0000

This song was released just too late to be in the new Jet Set Radio playlist.

By: David Kopelman

David Kopelman — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:22:00 +0000

So glad to see our cultural exports infusing the world at large with wholesome goodness and positive imagery.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:17:00 +0000

I liked this a lot more than earlier songs Xeni has posted, some of which I found to be unlistenable at the time. But perhaps they have indeed grown on me too and I should listen to the earlier stuff again.

By: Goner Doug

Goner Doug — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:47:00 +0000

I kick deez mufuggaz in my ride as I nod knowingly at the other 40-something white suburban dads and roll my vw turbo sedan when the naaiers look at me wrong.

By: JoeDamage

JoeDamage — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:40:00 +0000

I think you need to expand your sample a bit… and read up a bit more on South Africa. (Or speak to a few more South Africans before closing the book on what you ‘need’ to know) White South Africans aren’t a ‘side of the country’. They’re pretty diverse in their values and culture and many of them find Die Antwoord fantastic. Even Afrikaans White South Africans from Bellville.

By: Blayne Scott

Blayne Scott — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:51:00 +0000

Back when I was working in S.Korea an an ESL teacher, I mentioned Die Antwoord to a fellow teacher who was white south african. I was really curious how that side of the country viewed the band. The look of horror on her face when I mentioned them told me everything I needed to know. ;)

By: Wild Rumpus

Wild Rumpus — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:39:00 +0000

Thank you Xeni for turning me onto Die Antwoord. I am forever grateful. I dig everything about them.

…and I have no idea why Yolandi Visser gives me such a hard on, but she does…

By: Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:24:00 +0000

Oh God yes. Wannabe thugs and 14 year old mothers.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:58:00 +0000

I think it’s freaky but I like it a lot.

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:56:00 +0000

I was hoping the same thing, but I watched it all and kinda liked it.