Showing posts with label Slipknot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slipknot. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 April 2013

The face of Kwaicore

Every music genre has a face; bubblegum pop was won by Britney Spears whilst Corey Taylor can easily take whatever his genre is. There's also a guy named Bricks who apparently is an awesome Kwaito star whilst whoever is the face of Hardcore punk takes that.

Why don't you decide what the face of Kwaicore should look like? Here's a guideline to get you started. Below are two artists with their signature facial expressions. Beware girls who take photos of their duck faces, you may have competition.

Artist "Bricks" with his '"face-brick angry face"
"Girls Can Rock" punk bad. I see 3 girls.

Thursday, 4 April 2013

"Music of the townships"; The intro to Kwaicore

You may not know what the townships actually are, but don't be fooled; there are actually people out there who do buy expensive clothing and shoes only to dance around a fire to burn these items. Now whilst this ritual may seem positively stupid, it's the music they dance to that I'm going to talk about; Kwaito. 

Arthur Mafokate, the Britney Spears or the Elvis of Kwaito, describes the relationship between Kwaito and gangsterism as music revolving around ghetto life. To me, its the most ironic or contradictory form of music ever, the name being derived from the Afrikaans word for angry ("Kwaai") and then it being used post-apartheid as a way of the ghetto, because apparently them being oppressed was not enough credit. If you read what other people have to say about Kwaito, the believe it's the ghetto way of saying "house music". So let's just 'ghetto' everything because we can.

Alright, so moving on from the fact that kwaito is the music of "rebelling" and "renaming", I have a few examples i thought I'd share with you as I need to get those of you who have "never" (you have, you just didn't acknowledge) heard.


Musication

DJ Cleo's Kwaito

Is Kwaito not just house music?? Then what is house music??

Why would you want to superimpose this onto SlipKnots Duality??

Let me know what you think

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Apparently he likes to "snow"

Its only the 3rd week of this madness and people are already changing nouns into verbs!! Check the link below about this guy who clearly believes he knows exactly what this "genre" is on his blog "Scattered Sticks". I'm sorry, I obviously missed the connection between music and the game we play as kids to pick up scattered pieces of plastic (called "pick up sticks" if you didn't know). And he claims that artists are so keen to be mixing their genres; yes, I can picture Corey Taylor (Slipknot singer) putting on them overalls and all stars and jiving. It's getting worse and worse folks, so let me know whats out there
http://scatteredsticks.blogspot.com/2013/03/kwaicore-fusion.html