The “crazy cross-genre mashup” slot at last night’s Brit Awards went to a blend of the Ting Tings‘ cover of “Rapture” “Shut Up And Let Me Go” and Estelle’s “American Boy” that segued into everyone performing “That’s Not My Name” together; it worked intermittently, but at least allowed the British soulstress to flash a pretty great jacket. But what’s this? Did the Brits’ producers take their inspiration from the mash-up collective The Hood Internet, who posted their own bootleg of the two tracks back in June? The Hood’s version of the blend is embedded after the jump.
I prefer the Hood’s entrant in this horse race, if only because it has more nuance—not to mention more Kanye, and less Ting Tings. But you may disagree!
THE HOOD vs THE BRIT AWARDS [Hood Internet]
Oh Lawdy.
I is well embarrassed to live here now.
You people have to be careful connecting your computhingys over the pond
estelle sounded terrible? i disagree. love the mashup and this performance is 80 times better than ANYTHING that was on during the Grammys.
Reminscent of Kylie doing Blue Monday/Can’t Get You Out of My Head at the Brits a few years back. That had been a popular mashup the prior year.
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Katy Perry gets bashed every time she performs on tv, but Estelle somehow gets a pass for this?? She sounds TERRIBLE.
@Weezy F Baby: There are some people who feel like Katy Perry sounds terrible all the time, so that might be the difference.
I think Solange said it best:
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Also, wouldn’t it made more sense for Dizzee Rascal to have been in on this one?
Also, maybe I’m a dope, but how does the camera quickly pan from Douchy Aviator Ting Ting to Blonde Lady Ting Ting when they don’t appear to be standing anywhere near each other? Or am I just visually overwhelmed?
The Hood Internet rock. They played at my school about a month ago, and it was awesome and weird and fun hearing rap verses over LCD Soundsystem and Hercules & Love
Affair and whatnot. Generally a good time.
@bess marvin, girl detective: Seriously, people need to think more before they go around posting “OMG xxx is/was TERRIBLE” as if it is a fact, methinks. It is nothing but a gut punch to the fans. Blah.
Though by the way Katy Perry is TERRIBLE.