Comments on: couple things

By: jck

jck — Mon, 09 May 2005 12:48:36 +0000

sometimes there is no question of who is going whom with whom at the end of the show bc the deal is…..why is he going home with her…thats the key, to me
is he going home with her bc he’s a nice guy and she likes his style, or bc he was the loudest guy there, and was dominating over other people in a sly sorta way?
i think the whole, he’s going with her bc he’s alpha male, and shes going with him bc she’s the hot one really deflates a room
but i have been in those situations in which it was more egalitarian and free….and even if i didn’t go home with no one, i felt sexy and fullfilled

By: bebe

bebe — Sat, 07 May 2005 12:00:47 +0000

what ever what is going on in this world.

By: reacher

reacher — Mon, 02 May 2005 11:59:10 +0000

muchas gracias for the post —-
unsexy: “heterosexual power dynamic in which men are dominant and women are submissive, as an across the board rule, always”
I have never been in a situation where there was any danger of this — (I’d even go out on a limb and suggest that neither have the Ying Yang twins)
sexy: “we all have sex in this room and that is awesome and look at these beautiful women we admire doing beautiful sensual sexy things with their bodies”
at the same time, I’ve never been in a situation like *this* which was uncomplicated by desire —i.e. where a complicated intersection of power dynamics was not brought to bear on the all-important question of who’s gonna go where with whom when the show’s over —
nasty-ass lyrics and all “wait” is at least as close to sexy as unsexy is all I’m saying —

By: danyel

danyel — Sun, 01 May 2005 16:11:09 +0000

I haven’t watched B-in-the-H in a long time. But I did recently post about JS’ Baby Boy. I always loved the Ice Cube fadeaway at the end of Boyz.

By: Jck

Jck — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:26:42 +0000

“it felt like the message was “we all have sex in this room and that is awesome and look at these beautiful women we admire doing beautiful sensual sexy things with their bodies” as opposed to “i fucking own that ass bitch, get on the floor.”
this is totally what i wish the world was like

By: jshepination

jshepination — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:51:36 +0000

obviously the beat is part of the content; in this case, smurf wrote the beat and twins wrote the lyrics, so it’s not directly ABOUT “beating the pussy up”–besides, impolite fucking? if you mean “impolite” as in “heterosexual power dynamic in which men are dominant and women are submissive, as an across the board rule, always,” then yeah, that’s impolite and frankly, pretty unsexy and boring.
last night at king sunny ade, these three ladies came out and performed essentially a fully-clothed booty show, total ass dancing and hot gyrations but because the power dynamic in the room was non existant/non-gender based, because the whole thing was about respect and love and not nihilism and control, it felt like the message was “we all have sex in this room and that is awesome and look at these beautiful women we admire doing beautiful sensual sexy things with their bodies” as opposed to “i fucking own that ass bitch, get on the floor.”
there was also tons of low-end, incidentally.

By: jck

jck — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:40:07 +0000

the key to that song to me is that it is unmistakably a black man’s voice, and also its not a pop voice

By: reacher

reacher — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:03:47 +0000

say — thanks for the thoughts — just read the pitchfork bizness about this same song and I gotta say it seems pretty obvious to me that this “manipulation of the funk” concept is way misleading. If the song’s any good at all the beat is part of the content —- not like a neutral slice of toast where you can spread whatever kind of content you want on top — the reason we like Miami bass and crunk is basically cause they’re the sound of impolite fucking! Complicated questions surely remain, but the instrumental version of that Ying Yang song is still about ‘beating the pussy up’—no way around it!

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:29:08 +0000

There’s this pandemic going on with “Wait” where men – smart, sophisticated, socially cunning men – regress before one’s eyes when that snake rattle starts shaking. Women start looking like meat freezered sticks of Grade A. Pretty incredible.