These shots alternate with images of Ninja, Yolandi and their dancers in white body paint and then in black. We see Yolandi's entire body painted black her yellow baby doll dress, yellow eyes and bleached hair accentuate her black body paint. It's a clever parody but the key issue in this video is the role of blackface. Clearly, she is the "fatty" who is mocked in the chorus (celeb sites have gone into overdrive recently on Gaga supposedly gaining weight). Their attempts at parody and contempt for Gaga, who wanted them as an opening act, can hardly be missed. Finally, "Gaga" is killed and eaten by a lion. "Gaga" escapes, enters the surgery of a dentist/gynaecologist and gives birth to a cockroach, which South Africans, specifically Johannesburg residents, link connotatively to its nickname, Parktown Prawn – a reference to the alien "prawns" in South African sci-fi movie, District 9.
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Her tour guide/taxi driver points out wild animals in Rockey Street before they get hijacked. Hence, we see a Lady Gaga impersonator – wearing a meat dress – in a minibus taxi as she is taken on a tour of presumably inner city Johannesburg.
It apparently pokes fun at stereotypical western perceptions of Africa.
With this is mind, let's look at the latest video. While ambiguous, Die Antwoord's allusion to both working-class white and "coloured" stereotypes are cultural appropriation. And it is ironic that while Ninja borrows heavily from male, "coloured", Afrikaans-speaking working-class stereotypes from the Cape, most Cape Afrikaans and Xhosa rappers have not achieved local and international success on the same scale as him. It wasn't until Jones adopted the Afrikaans working-class persona, Ninja, that he hit pay dirt. All of his previous rap projects, none particularly successful and all in English language, included Original Evergreen, Max Normal, Max Normal.TV and Constructus Corporation. In truth, however, Jones is neither working-class nor Afrikaans-speaking. Interestingly, they link zef – which apparently just used to mean "common" or "kitsch", but now means "cool" – to 1980s white, working-class culture. They market themselves as leaders of zef counter-culture, a supposedly Afrikaans working-class movement. In its two days of release, the official “Fatty Boom Boom” clip has 1.5 million views.Die Antwoord are Ninja (Waddy Jones), Yo-Landi Vi$$er (Anri du Toit) and DJ Hi-Tek, who has been played by different people in their videos.
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WE GOT IT.”ĭie Antwoord quickly responded, “lady… even tho u r ‘larger’ than us… we still cooler than u… plus we don’t have prawns in our private…”Īs far as Lady Gaga’s claim that the trio does not “have a hit”: “Enter The Ninja,” Die Antwoord’s biggest-selling single, has moved 40,000 downloads according to Nielsen SoundScan - multiply that by 170, and you have the number of downloads for “Poker Face.” Still, the provocateurs knows how to rack up YouTube hits, as songs like “I Fink U Freeky” and “Baby’s On Fire” have garnered 16.7 million and 6.9 million views, respectively. never mind! we get it, you’re not a little monster.
She continued, “i guess its not a good idea to tell someone you’re a fan. #thatsmyshit,” a reference to her upcoming shows in Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa. Early in the video, the Gaga impostor passes by Die Antwoord on the street and exclaims, “I should get them to open for me!”įollowing the video’s release on Tuesday, Gaga posted on Twitter, “i fink u freaky but you don’t have a hit. So why does Die Antwood hate Lady Gaga? Apparently, the pop superstar had asked the rappers to open for her on tour, and the trio didn’t take too kindly to the request. Lizzo Is Mind-Blown Over UFO Congressional Hearing Testimony on Existence of Aliens: 'WTF'
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