Actually, You Are A DJ, You Arrogant Prick
I had been watching people play the second stage all day
I'd gotten to the gate at 4 AM
I wanted to see Public Enemy
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back and Fear Of A Black Planet are two of my all time favorite albums
They are both tremendous achievments in both poetry and in sound collage
As I was walking to the main stage to see Weezer's set I saw a girl wearing one of your shirts heading to the second stage to watch your set
Her shirt said "I'm Not A DJ" which is your whole pretentious asshole thing
You say you want people to think of your works as songs
I even saw a documentary about once where they lumped Negativland in with you
That is some of the most horrendous bullshit I have ever heard in my life
Negativland created actual pieces of art with a huge variety of found sound sources
They had actual atmosphere
They made you think about culture
You make me feel like I'm in a club
Listening to a DJ
Because you are a fucking DJ, ya jerk
And yet the only reason anybody knows about them is they sampled U2 and pissed off U2 with it
And they were using it for an actual original song
Like what The Avalanches do
You just threw Bono's voice onto some Radiohead and Bush music
And apparantly that's enough to be considered fair use
Unlike Negativland's actually transformative usage
On a recent recording you actually fucking sampled a vocal from Paul's Boutique
An album actually made sampling an art
Before computers did everything for people
And so you took a vocal from it
And looped David Bowie's guitar riff from an Iggy Pop song under it
Did you know that that riff was from a television station Bowie and Iggy used to watch?
Did you put it over a Paul's Boutique vocal to comment on the fact that both are forms of recontectualization and now you are combining them to create yet another new thing? And what of the fact that you also threw a Lady Gaga vocal in there? Because her name is taken from a Queen song? And the video for the song of hers you happened to be sampling recreates a scene from the Pink Floyd film, The Wall?
Oh, wait
Now I recall an interview with you saying that you are not making any kind of statement with your music
This means that just now I put way more actual thought into your shit than you do
Man, you suck
I'd gotten to the gate at 4 AM
I wanted to see Public Enemy
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back and Fear Of A Black Planet are two of my all time favorite albums
They are both tremendous achievments in both poetry and in sound collage
As I was walking to the main stage to see Weezer's set I saw a girl wearing one of your shirts heading to the second stage to watch your set
Her shirt said "I'm Not A DJ" which is your whole pretentious asshole thing
You say you want people to think of your works as songs
I even saw a documentary about once where they lumped Negativland in with you
That is some of the most horrendous bullshit I have ever heard in my life
Negativland created actual pieces of art with a huge variety of found sound sources
They had actual atmosphere
They made you think about culture
You make me feel like I'm in a club
Listening to a DJ
Because you are a fucking DJ, ya jerk
And yet the only reason anybody knows about them is they sampled U2 and pissed off U2 with it
And they were using it for an actual original song
Like what The Avalanches do
You just threw Bono's voice onto some Radiohead and Bush music
And apparantly that's enough to be considered fair use
Unlike Negativland's actually transformative usage
On a recent recording you actually fucking sampled a vocal from Paul's Boutique
An album actually made sampling an art
Before computers did everything for people
And so you took a vocal from it
And looped David Bowie's guitar riff from an Iggy Pop song under it
Did you know that that riff was from a television station Bowie and Iggy used to watch?
Did you put it over a Paul's Boutique vocal to comment on the fact that both are forms of recontectualization and now you are combining them to create yet another new thing? And what of the fact that you also threw a Lady Gaga vocal in there? Because her name is taken from a Queen song? And the video for the song of hers you happened to be sampling recreates a scene from the Pink Floyd film, The Wall?
Oh, wait
Now I recall an interview with you saying that you are not making any kind of statement with your music
This means that just now I put way more actual thought into your shit than you do
Man, you suck