Eerste Ding
This seems to be some kind of Ali G-like put on. And yet it doesn’t really matter.
Tweede Ding
More musical birds.
Derde Ding
It appears that Men at Work have lost their plagiarism case. I really don’t hear it.
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Eerst – is great. My drummer sent me a link about them. Titled it “international gummo rap.”
Tweede – of course the birds have to be tweede. perfect.
Derde – and how cool is it that this video is full of birds too? again perfect. legalities aside, I think it’s perfect that MaW took this riff. I mean, poetically it is the right thing to do. And I wonder, if they were recording this now with all the boring stuff we hear about sampling — would they have changed it? It’s not a reference we as Americans “get” but I still understand how great it is.
Btw, this week I had to tackle a mangled buggy bunch of php code. It was written by some Dutch swingers in Las Vegas and it sucked because the comments were no help. They were all in Dutch.
And I wonder, if they were recording this now with all the boring stuff we hear about sampling — would they have changed it?
I would guess not. That flute bit honestly doesn’t sound similar enough to be anything other than a vague musical reference. I can’t believe they lost that case. For their sake, I hope they can appeal the decision.
Btw, this week I had to tackle a mangled buggy bunch of php code. It was written by some Dutch swingers in Las Vegas and it sucked because the comments were no help. They were all in Dutch.
This week’s titles are actually Afrikaans, since Die Antwoord is South African, but Afrikaans isn’t far off Dutch, so it apparently looks the same.
My take on the MaW saga is that they did mean to have a nod to that melody. The sample recording they use in that video is horrible. But it makes sense that they would use a “national” melody like that. I mean, usually when somebody writes a patriotic-ish song here, it contains some sort of local melody reference.
Did not know them rappers was South Africans was wondering since the video scenery certainly doesn’t look European.
although I agree with you. Amazing they would lose that case.
I would comment on this post, but recently I kissed a bird and contracted chirpies. It’s a canarial disease and it’s untweetable. So as you can imagine I’m a little under the feather. Wish me duck.
Groan. That was fowl.