Short guy in die antwoord enter the ninja

#Short guy in die antwoord enter the ninja full#

So вЂ“ IвЂ™m looking forward to Avatar 2, when slavery on Pandora is run by a group of sadistic Afrikaner outlaws who embark on a legendary Great War with the noble NaвЂ™vi вЂ“ in resplendent 4D. And thereвЂ™s one thing worse than being talked about, right? After all, theyвЂ™re gonna help put us on (and by us I mean us twisted whites) on the map. And in the current music climate, where showbiz, concept and image are even more important than the music, well done to Die Antwoord for thinking it up Straight Outta Kloof Street, cooking it up a bit on the Cape FlatsвЂ¦.and most importantly, for pulling it off so well.ДЄnd anyway, should we really care that our biggest white ambassadors (outside Charlize and, um, Ernie) are exploiting a negative stereotype? Probably not. I like the Bearded Lady and the Man With Four Tits as much as the next guy. I like Die Antwoord вЂ“ and IвЂ™m not one to diss a good circus act, or even, a Victorian Freak Show.

#Short guy in die antwoord enter the ninja full#

TheyвЂ™re genuine freaks!! ThereвЂ™s Full Body Tattoos! Darkness! Delinquency! Deformity! Fishbowl Haircuts! Bad Teeth! Rats! Obviously Fred Durst hasnвЂ™t yet worked out that theyвЂ™re an act. I mean, even Fred Durst thinks Die Antwoord are way cool! Instead of the usual bunch of вЂњhardcoreвЂќ guys who populate the MTV charts вЂ“ guys from Milwaukee with guyliner and satanic undertones вЂ“ this is the real deal. Their success, like Roger BallenвЂ™s, has been buoyed by the fact that they present a stereotype that overseas fans will buy. Die AntwoordвЂ™s 3 million doesnвЂ™t sound that big by comparison вЂ“ but when you consider that theyвЂ™ve achieved more views than new videos from Vampire Weekend or, say, Pop IdolsвЂ™ Adam Lambert, you have to understand that the Ninja has definitely made an entrance. Just to put it into perspective: The biggest youtube video of all time (a home video called вЂњCharlie Bit My FingerвЂќ) clocks in at about 175 million hits. For proper freaks, you need to go to the Zef side вЂ“ a side of life that is getting some significant airplay. But Wikus was too much of a comedy character (an amiably neurotic buffoon) to be a true villain or freak. District 9вЂ™s Wikus van der Merwe introduced the world to words like вЂњfokkenвЂќ and вЂњbliksemвЂќ. TheyвЂ™ve had some exposure with The MummyвЂ™s Arnold Vosloo вЂ“ and Argen Rudd, the evil National Party boer in Lethal Weapon 2 who introduced America to the K-Word. IвЂ™m beginning to think our local actors are in for a shot at some seriously nasty screen roles. And as for the Afrikaners? Well, theyвЂ™re the A-List twisted, evil muthafuckas! You know the drill: The Brits are brainy. This kind of stereotyping is perfect for Hollywood, who are always looking for foreigners to play The Baddie. Die Antwoord also use naive graphics, but, somewhat appropriately for their B-Boy act, they plunder the back catalogue of BasquiatвЂ™s Graffiti Art contemporary, Keith Haring.Д«oth Ballen and Die Antwoord have enjoyed international attention, because (aside from their obvious quality) they play into a global idea about the Afrikaners: that they are spiritually bankrupt, disturbingly вЂњbackwardвЂќ and evil. Ballen surrounds his portraits with naive Basquiat-style wall scrawlings.

YouвЂ™ll see the same kind of disturbing imagery in Die AntwoordвЂ™s вЂњEnter the NinjaвЂќ music video. For his last book, Outland, he moved from documenter to artist, creating sinister settings for his found вЂњobjectsвЂќ, and setting things up to make their portraits even more grotesque.

Over the years, these portraits have become increasingly more fictional and fantastic. Instead of OberholzerвЂ™s affectionate portrayal of colourful Karoo characters, BallenвЂ™s work is a bleak black and white documentary of weird вЂњPlattelandвЂќ freaks. Roger Ballen, an acclaimed American who has lived in Joburg since the 1970вЂ™s, has been a documenter of dorp life for 30 years. TheyвЂ™re both nightmare images that come from the dark white heart of Africa. The two black and white images below вЂ“ one from Ballen, and one from Die Antwoord вЂ“ bear a striking resemblance. Instead, theyвЂ™re a twisted tribe, as seen in the work of photographer Roger Ballen and interweb artists, Die Antwoord. And now there may just be a new contender for the role of freakish foreign villain: he goes by the name of Afrikaner.Д«ut these are not the Afrikaners that we have come to know as those friendly Ooms and Tannies who like embroidery, God and koeksusters. Ever noticed how mainstream American films always cast the villains and freaks as non-Americans? TheyвЂ™re usually Nazi Germans, demented Brits, dirty Mexicans, Eastern Bloc thugs or Oriental torturers.