How your bloggy sausage gets made: Bloggers get e-mailed a video by 2 Live Crew “homage practitioners” Spank Rock and Benny Blanco; Marc Hogan at Pitchfork actually engages kinda critically with it and is unimpressed; the Fader responds with its typical “it’s all good, brah, why d’you have to be such a downer“ stance; and finally, Gorilla Vs. Bear uses the dust-up as an opportunity to remind his readers that he cut and pasted his e-mail into Blogger posted the video before anyone else. Doesn’t it all make you just want to rush into WordPress and set the Internet on fire?
November 7th, 2007 // 5 Comments
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A novelty act, covering a novelty act, now that’s a first, brah.
i was glad to see someone finally calling this shit out (spank rock + benny blanco, not the internet controversy).
my problem w/ these dudes is really the lack the of good taste/humor. like, lots of rap is obv just as mysoginistic as this, but a. at least most of it is balanced w/ a track or two per album that laments dead friends or talks about a traditional “romance” (i.e. showing some depth) and b. even tho lil wayne or snoop dogg or whoever might have mysoginistic lyrics, spank rock + benny blanco just seem like tried and true douche bags. a step down from even your typical frat boy who walks into a party and announces “MAN I HOPE THERE IS SOME GOOD PUSSY HERE TONIGHT.”
do people honestly find this shit funny?? i guess the music is okay on a purely visceral level (nice beats, etc.) but i hope people are just filling post quotas by posting that vid.
Haha, perfect summary of Fader’s position on, well, everything (“thinking gives you wrinkles” would’ve also sufficed).
i love this site’s meta-blog commentary!
Hogan gets extra credit for saying “knuckleheads”. That’s a word I’d like to see used more often.