Comments | kanzeon_2040: Ima Read

kanzeon_2040

Ima Read

Jul 08, 2023 08:29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4Sqt2Bmag

Mad Decent's Zebra Katz melds vogue into rap accompanied by Njena Reddd Foxxx in a one-off 2012 track recorded by the best friends and then immortalized with a desaturated video directed by Ruben XYZ.

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Comments 2

Part I matrixmann July 8 2023, 22:46:08 UTC

I think you overinterpret something here very big style by viewing it with the eyes of the present.

First, I also thought when watching this that it's something composed in the recent years (because it first seems like picking up the overacted need of "black representation" by the (few) human figures you get to see in the music video), but then, going through the YouTube comments in search of "Okay, what did the artist want to tell me with this song?", I got pointed at this clip being online for 11 years (!) already.

So, no current Identity Politics drama, no "black representation" has played a role in generating this song and music video as it is because these topics were no part of the daily agenda 11 years ago. Not as persisting as they do today. (For comparison: Sandy Hook happened in December 2012. - So much for talking about "events that didn't happen yet and whose impact therefore didn't exist yet ( ... )

matrixmann July 8 2023, 22:49:02 UTC

The verses "School's out, bells starts ringin', Better watch out 'cause them bullets start swingin'" can be indeed interpreted in two ways.
One is understanding it as "school's out, the bells start ringing - and the student returns to the streets where people shoot themselves, where violence is consistently present". Being able to be interpreted as a sign of the student returning to poverty and their everyday misery when leaving the schoool building.
The other is: "School's out, bells stars ringing - and as soon as school is over, the bullets rush at the school building". Indicating a school-shooting.
The altered repetition of that line "Better watch out 'cause I'm gonna start swingin'" could also point at something like this because - bullets on the street that you return to, could these truly be a reason for doing something like "dancing" (at least that's how I comprehend "swinging ( ... )