They are Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er, and DJ Hi-Tek. They are accepting the challenge, with dick in hand and a tough-looking-rabid-Kesha-esque-auto-tune chick on back up vocals.
Die Antwoord–the Answer–is an answer to the kinds of ideas that the American-consumerist machine expounds on the world, and how they answer it back to us in ways that we perceive as odd or miscommunicated (“ Die Antwoord: Taking over the Interweb”, suggesting that these “backwards” Africans don’t quite comprehend the modern conventions of simple words like the Internet). Obviously, these “weirdly foreign” white guys aren’t authentic, but maybe neither was our own version of authentic hip-hop. Think “Everything Is Illuminated” or “Night Watch”:Īnyway, my point is: My amusement of Die Antwoord–at least from a distant first-impression–comes from seeing how their style of ‘cool’ is a parody of a delayed ingestion and reconfiguration of our own very-out-dated-American-consumerist-notions-of-’90s-hip-hop-cool. It makes me laugh in the same way I spot random ’90s vestiges of hip hop “cool” in Eastern European white guys. I think they are actually really hilarious, but I guess it’s in a distantly foreign and weirdly tacky Vanilla Ice-esque sense. I’ve only been distantly aware of Die Antwoord for a while, never giving them much extended thought outside of their once-popular-meme-status.
I am usually a little late to the party when it comes to internet phenomenons.
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