-- information concerning the safety of dancing -- LE BLA AVEC LA DANSE
ATTENTION: Your security is our aim. With or without hats, we try to make our readers feel welcome. From the mists of downtown Reykjavik we hype tunes that can make our society a safer place.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Catchy as hell bubblefunk.
ESG-style polyrhythmic post-disco on a tropical-pop trip, they’ve taken lo-fi indie and injected it with attitude and swagger. Featuring a bass line that forces your body into convulsive thrusting movements and a vocal line that will make hipster boys across the land go weaker at the knees than a 70% sale at Urban Outfitters with a bonus wink from the checkout girl.
“I know I don’t want no one suffocating me / If you love someone it should feel good to let them breath”. BREAKDOWN. Get involved below. This is pure lust, oh so seaxy!
Suffocation and Not in Love sparkle like pristine synth pop should, even if they sound like they’ve been put through a shredder, a nouveau nihilism.
Crystal Castles has the habit of bringing in outside influence to create a masterpiece. For their single release of Platinum Blonde's "Not in Love," they employed The Cure's Robert Smith to turn an adequate cover into a work of art. Magnificent vocals accompanied by Crystal Castles' signature electronic beats create a tone that reaches far beyond any one demographic of listener.
Alice Glass was born in 1988 in Toronto, Ontario. At the age of 14 she ran away to live in a squat community of punks and drug addicts. A week after she turned 15, she was approached by Ethan Cat, her fellow band member. He had just seen her play in her all-girl crust-punk band, Fetus Fatale. Cat was impressed by her performance, saying he thought he had found an "undiscovered poet" and the "missing ingredient" to his music.
...it might be like cast adrift in a vortex of deafening pain without a safety hat. But soon, you get the feeling you could do anything in the world, but that 'anything' would ultimately mean nothing. Crystal Castles marks a nuanced emotional save territory that dance music never covered before...
In a overly-hyped, but dawning era of AIDS in the 1980's, masterbation and abstinence were considered essential safety behaviors - masterbation being the Safety Dance.
A similar song was Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself".
"Where's Perry?", Freddy asked.
"Oh, he's probably in the bathroom doing the Safety Dance", replied Liberace.
Also, you can always do an AIDS test. It´s free and you´ll be out of the clinic in minutes, I assure you.
The Housemartins - Happy HourHull, UK Many of the Housemartins' lyrics were a mixture of Marxist politics and Christianity, reflecting singer Paul Heaton's beliefs at the time.
"You are not Reagan, I'm not Gorbachev, so don't try, eh? I said, 'I want to fuck her.'" - Serge Gainsburg
Charlotte Gainsbourg, has been a recording artist in France since 1984, when she duetted with her dad on a song he wrote called "Lemon Incest." The song's title is a pun on "lemon zest," and the song caused an understandably large controversy over then-twelve-year-old Charlotte singing deliberately ambiguous lyrics referring to the love between an adult and a child.
The video didn't help matters (or, depending on your point of view, helped them immeasurably), showing Gainsbourg, shirtless and in jeans, and Charlotte, wearing a shirt and panties, lying on a bed. Predictably, the song was a hit.
"I try not to explain songs all that much. Because, I’ve had the experience of thinking a song was about one thing, and being all for it, and then reading something about the artist where they’ve said ‘that’s actually about taking my cat to a vet". - Annie Erin Clark (Born: September 28, 1982)
Lebla: Hello. Ammmm... yes, so, though we get the feeling this family has good intentions about what they're doing at the beginning, you get the impression this isn't the first time they've kidnapped.
Ian Kibbey: Lo. Oh Yeah. Mhm. Everyday I´m shufflin´! If you take a good look, there are some bones and tattered hats at the bottom of the grave-- maybe it has been re-dug recently. We wanted the family to have a sadness to them, but the distance from victim to aggressor is very short. They want a mom, and this person might work out. If she doesn't, they'll fucking kill her...
Corey Creasey: ...Or they'll get a new one!!! What? Yes, oh sorry, Ian, but may I say something? Good. Well, the mom is disposable. It feels like the family is frozen in time. We wanted the kidnapping scene to be violent, but we also wanted the family to be likable and not your quintessential serial killers.
Lebla: Why do you think Annie's character stays with this family?
Ian Kibbey: It gets complicated when you realize that the front door is not locked. It's almost like Stockholm syndrome where she wants to be accepted and provide what these people need. Why does everybody set themselves up for disappointment?! Why do people return to the same place for fucking Christmas when they know fucked up shit is going to happen? We're gluttons for punishment. Fuck, let´s just go to the carnival guys. Festivities include fucking calypso, soca and steelpan performances, many of them in large, competitive formats.
"Initiation is a song pulsing with evil. The Weeknd has lured a naïf into his web of iniquity and is taking her innocence, turning her out, and practically taking her soul".
You can read more about the possible meaning of the song here. It´s quite well reviewed, actually. However, not sure if he means drugs when he talks about introducing her to his boys, or them gangbanging her.
Her name's Anna. She's from Harlem. She's 22, or she's about to be 23 if she's not 23 already. She's cool. She's fun. That's really the person she is. She does use the [word "nigga"] all the time – you know, she's cool like that. She smokes. She drinks. She's cool...she's sexy. She's cute.
She was just one of my friends. She's so crazy, her with the grilles and everything, I was like “Yo, we need to do a video with you rapping along to the lyrics.” For “Purple Swag,” I always knew I wanted to use a girl for that part, and she just was perfect, so we used her. She just was having fun the whole time, lip syncing and shit.
Nouveau clip d'un des albums majeurs de l'année, passé totalement inaperçu pour le public français...!
le bla: "You recorded the album in French. A lot of acts, if they want international success, wimp out and sing in English".
Julie Budet: "Au début nous thought it would be a problém for us to get out of le France. It’s very difficult for a français band to get out of le France! But writing in English is too complicated. Nous not fluent, so nous can’t présenter feelings".
le-bla: "From the translations, there’s a lot of subtlety and subversion to the lyrics. Much of that gets lost when your audience can’t speak French".
Grand Marnier: "Nous write for français people, un fondamentalement—personnes who understand what nous say. Nous don’t like sombre et intellectual lyrics. Nous want to write some simple stuff that will interact with people’s minds, un to produce something nous want …hold on, where’s le fucking dictionary? [Background chatter in French.] Nous want everything to be purrrrrrrrrrfect".
GrandMarnier and Tepr produce the music, while Budet writes the lyrics. We heart Budet.
The Dancing Robots are consistently and clearly dancing WITHOUT hats. THEREFORE, its possible to dance without a hat, but as we know, its not safe, NOT AT ALL. As we move further into the 21st century, safety becomes a larger factor of our lives. We highly recommend to maximize your security and safety while performing a dance by wearing a hat. In a case of an emergency the solution might be a deep pot or a light vase as a substitute for a hat. Don´t be a clown, wear a hat.
