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Just before lunch (Yum! Lunch!), we received the following email:
Just got word, after circulating the link around my music publicity office, that Die Antwoord is basically Da Ali G of South Africa. All fake, skewering the movement of middle class kids with apartheid supporting parents becoming Afrikaner posers, basically.
And then, just after lunch (Remember lunch?! The best!) we got another email from another tipster that included a bunch of links to previous videos (which you can see for yourself after the jump) from the Die Antwoord guys in which they appear to basically be the Williamsburgs of South Africa or whatever. So, as quickly as they came into our lives, Die Antwoord appear to be on their way out, due to their being fake.
Except a) who cares, and b) what fake?
Nothing about Die Antwoord ever really suggested that they WEREN’T art school drop-outs with a half-finished thesis paper on post-Weimar Republic performance art. Dude was wearing Dark Side of the Moon boxers for goodness’ sake, and the girl had on a t-shirt that probably cost 599.419 South African Rand. If you looked at their website, which is beautiful and interesting, they give a shout out to their HAIR STYLIST. The “Ninja” video was a Keith Haring nightmare.
I am just saying: let us not turn our backs on Die Antwoord. Not now. I’m sure for some reason everyone would have liked it better if they were actually borderline mentally-retarded Poor Children from Ghettos covered in Generic Cheetoes Dust and Meth Crumbs or whatever, but none of these new revelations makes what they are doing any less great.
We all agreed that we should give them whatever they want, and I maintain that that is still the smart thing to do. It was always “give them whatever they want because what they are doing is great,” not “give them whatever they want unless I find out that they are not actually addicted to Jenkem in attempt to escape from their abject misery.” The joy that we felt at discovering them was unapproachable, and nothing can take that away from us.
This guy knows what I’m talking about:
Die Antwoord! Why? Because FOREVER!!!! (Thanks for the tips, Debbie and Adam. Haters photo via DailyWhat.)
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Die Antwoords business lunch
Prescient
I’m going to put on my pajama jeans on and go hide in a yogurt cup now
Gabe, You are totally missing the point of this Max”Normal” character. The people in the taxi video are real and they are playing “characters” in the above videos.
Sometimes you scare me, Sir.
Fake or not the lyrics are still beautiful http://www.watkykjy.co.za/2010/01/die-antwoord-beat-boy-met-lyrics/
My heart is next-level broken.
Still, they are pretty good at rapping — you gotta give ‘em that! (No, you don’t.)
Next we’re going to find out that Gummo wasn’t a documentary.
Hey! Don’t even joke about a thing like that. Those poor, poor kids… I’m still crying now. If I found it wasn’t a documentary I’d fall apart.
what is fake and what is real? they amuse me.
But they are still the answer (thats what Die Antwoord mean, as far as I know)!
One man’s fake is another man’s GENIUS.
Good point. I knew there was no way they were “real” with that high of a quality site and videos. Even if they were real they would most certainly be totally self-aware. Its not like all the rapping was done in between cooking up next-level meth, that’s just not how life works. Its all still very enjoyable.
I had to look up the exchange rate for South African Rand to get your joke. $80 T-Shirt. TBS very funny.
I actually feel hugely relieved. Those other videos gave me the same feeling I get from watching back to back episodes of Hoarders and Intervention–riveted but vaguely dirty. Now that I know they’re not on meth (probably) and their haircuts are art, I feel better! Also, dude can rock a sewing machine … helllloooo, Max Normal!
This whole thing reminds me of someone: back in the day, I was friends with this uberhipster couple who only bought their clothes at vintage clothing stores and they hung out with this girl that…well…to this day I don’t know for sure whether she was trying way way too hard to be a hipster or if she was mentally retarded. Honest to goodness, not joking. I wanted to ask my friend but it was way way too embarrassing a question to ask. Die Antwoord is a lot like that. They may be fake, but the truth may be even more horrifying than the farce.
This one thing I know for sure, I think we can all get down on our knees and thank Die Antwoord for the Pink Floyd Boxers Dance.
Did anyone else see Max Normal MOVE THAT GLASS OF WATER WITH HIS MIND? Please tell me I’m not the only one who saw that.
That little guy is still really has progeria, and is aging super fast, its real life and its forever
Oh, god, I just Googled progeria and I CANNOT UNSEE THESE IMAGES. These poor people!
Ahhhh Jeez that’s so awful and terrible and CAN SOMEONE PLEASE COMFORT ME AGHH
There’s a kitten down below that should be comforting to you. I swear I hit reply.
I don’t even know how I feel about these guys. So many emotions. So much confusion. All I know [I think] is that this guy has rapey eyes and he makes me feel very uncomfortable.
I was voted “Most Rapey Eyes” in High School.
The lady of Die Antwoord is like if Bjork and Buffalo Bill had a baby and it was stolen by elves. I, for one, am glad our long national nightmare is over.
So now its just purposely awesome. Ok.
I knew this was fake. U`all so gullible. But I did go to art school, so maybe that’s why.
Awwww. Moosh better.
In many ways, this makes me like them more. Thank you Gabe, for bringing these individuals into my life and, like tonetta777 before them, giving my roommate and I a new Zodiac-esque obsession.
I feel like my whole life has been a lie up to this point.
“Jacob Zuma taught me how to talk shit” = how it’s done, son!
Weird Afrikaan Yankovic?
I do not care what their back story is. What they are doing is next level awesome and I support it. It is okay for performers to perform is it not? Is anyone upset that Jack and Meg White are not really brother and sister or that the Ramones were not all brothers? Just let them be great!
whatever. her bangs are REAL and are GROSS.
You speak the truth, bird. Those bangs take the joke too far.
But. How “fake crazy” can you really be, if that is your REAL haircut? Unless that is a wig, these people are for real nutso.
looks fake and gay
Everything is post-modern and sponsored by Brawndo, doesn’t mean we can’t like it! Also, you reminded me of this.
so i shouldn’t have gotten that neck tattoo yesterday?
Yeah I don’t see the problem here? They’re like the Ali G of South Africa? Ali G is fucking awesome. Seriously though about her bangs, yikers.
“Is this real life?” (A new phrase for 2010, applied to this situation© with Die Antwoord)
alls i know is that i want those stuffed animals
Double :O
Where’s DJ Arctic?
missing, apparently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Antwoord
I want that John Cena tank top.
Next you’ll tell me Donnie Dumphy is fake.
It’s like, what if you found out Tommy Wiseau’s deal was all just an act? What would that make him? Only the most brilliant comedian who ever walked the face of the universe! Same concept applies here.
“Please come to my show. It’s going to be cool i promise.” Is now going on every promotional flyer I make ever.
Die Antwoord are wholly representitive of a South African mindset. Whilst they are all established musicians in the South African scene – many of their fans are not in on their joke, many of their fans think they are for real. And the joke is on those fans.
by the way… if you’re not from SA, you can’t understand, ever. so sit back and enjoy. these jokes are far too layered. and some of it is on all of us.
For CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!!!! When was the last time you heard music that wasn’t “fake”? You just pick the fake music you like best until you hear fake music that’s better. I think Die Antwoord is fresh. Like… a breath of fresh air. If they are an art-school master stroke, SO WHAT?! Not only that, but how many musicians/artists actually find success on their first attempt.
Lighten the f*ck up people!!!