But instead it’s a lanky skater-kid pumping his fist in the air chanting “ Fok Julle Naaiers. The guy behind me breathes down my neck and I expect to find one of Ballen’s characters ready to hit me over the head with a spade. Looking at the dangling and eerily drooping faces hanging from the ceiling of Irving Plaza I have to remind myself that Ballen’s sees his camera as a recording instrument and that the images from which these drawings originate, are constructed and not real. Ordinarily, I’d say these cutesy, upbeat characters seem in direct contrast to Ballen’s dark characters, but now they appear transformed in to an anarchic subterfuge. Known for their upbeat public art projects, including kids playground inflatables and sculptures, their work with Die Antwoord takes an interesting turn as the friendly bubbly character in the video is featured sucking on a giant “zoll.” Ninja is quoted as saying, “when I die, and go to heaven, it’s going to be designed by FriendsWithYou.” Much to my surprise, during Die Antwoord’s Saturday night performance at New York’s Irving Plaza, the back screen projection showed a film sequence by Miami-based artist duo FriendsWithYou. Rolling Stone magazine noted the use of both Afrikaans and English in Ninjas lyrics, whilst also mentioning the problem this presents for people not used to his strong South African accent, but ultimately concluded that 'Die Antwoord dont dispense with rap clichés they give them a new accent thats both disorienting and thrilling'.
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Wyróniamy si unikalnymi interpretacjami tekstów, które pozwol Ci na dokadne zrozumienie przekazu Twoich ulubionych piosenek. Na znajdziesz najdokadniejsze tekstowo tumaczenia piosenek w polskim Internecie. A premise that inspired the look of Die Antwoord characters Ninja and Yolandi Visser.įriendsWithYou bubbly character is reinvented for the backdrop of Die Antwoord’s live show Sprawd o czym jest tekst piosenki Enter The Ninja nagranej przez Die Antwoord. Inspired by Jung’s theory of the hidden self, Ballen photographs explore the dark side or the shadow side of human life. Later he began taking photographs as a hobby, capturing images during his travels that he felt were revealing not only of the landscape but also to himself.
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In this way, his work shares a documentary quality akin to that of Diane Arbus, but with a darker undertone and deeper satirical twist.īorn in New York City in 1950, Roger Ballen grew up around photography as his mother worked at Magnum Photos. As a result, his third book Platteland (1994) created quite a stir at the time by showing a group of people that the Apartheid regime, which was in power at the time, would rather have kept hidden away. The group comprises rappers Watkin Tudor 'Ninja' Jones and Anri 'Yolandi Visser' du Toit, a male/female duo, and producers HITEK5000 and Lil2Hood. To be frank, these people appear in his depictions to be in some shape or form, dysfunctional. Die Antwoord (pronounced di antvurt, Afrikaans for 'The Answer') is a South African alternative hip hop group formed in Cape Town in 2008. A few years back, traveling through the “Platteland,” which are the rural lands of South Africa, Ballen came across white South Africans who he describes in a video interview as “not being able to cope as well.” Soon the band signed with Interscope Records, a major label that reissued the band's regional 2010 debut "$O$.“Dresie and Casie, Twins, Western Transvaal” (1993), photographed by Roger Ballen as part of his “Plateland” series.Īdmittedly, the word “freakish” would be politically incorrect to describe many of the people and places Ballen has photographed.
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It went viral, drawing more than 10 million YouTube views, and powerful fans such as pop star Katy Perry. Before assuming the roles of Ninja and Yo-Landi for Die Antwoord, the two were involved with satirical projects like MaxNormal.TV - which saw them wearing three-piece business suits and delivering motivational hip-hop - and the Constructus Corporation: a hip-hop fantasy group based around a comic book called the Ziggurat. The band left Magnetron and was signed by Interscope. Die Antwoord rocketed to international stardom in January 2010 when their video for Enter the Ninja was uploaded to YouTube and went viral. They're conceptual artists before they're musicians, so they are thinking about the responses they provoke."ĭie Antwoord's early video "Enter the Ninja" had a disturbingly macabre feel, with rats crawling around Yo-Landi's bed and Ninja's neck, as well as a memorable turn by Leon Botha, a South African artist who suffers from progeria, a rapid-aging disease that makes his head appear unusually large. Ninja told Duitsman the company would send a featured artist publishing contract soon that he would need to sign. That's not something that a lot of music videos do, and there's value in that," adds David Marchese, a Spin senior writer who has written extensively about the band. "You might find their music videos offensive or off-putting or supercompelling, but your reactions to them are probably telling about some deeper feelings you have about race or rap or class or South Africa.