Mind you, the suggestion came from someone who spent most of their time studying classical Arabic poetry, so it might just be a question of everything looking like a nail, you know what I mean? That said, I’ve read a *little* of the stuff, and I did notice the following themes in some of the poemsġ: I am the most dangerous guy around.
Hazbaz Feb 23rd 2010 9:03 am The pierrot video is Ashes to Ashes, I I’ve heard it suggested that a lot of the “gangster” images in rap can be traced back through the blues, to Africa, and eventually all the way back to classical (pre-Islamic) Arabic poetry.Is fiddy really a modern day version of minstrels praising the works of a king? (After all, he’s not the one writing them, he’s just the subject matter and the face of it all and they’re all about how great and how rich he is) Is Ice Cube rapping about gang life a direct descendant of, say, Beowulf? (epics about the life the hero leads, his masculinity, his personal strength, the spoils of war, but also the terrible personal cost of it all (and damage to others)) I suppose the question is really how many other things can we tie back to origins like that? To address the question: This actually does give me more respect for Ke$ha (although that’s not exactly hard) because she is part of a musical tradition. I love that reinterpretation of the song, (especially as a blue fan myself) and you definitely need to make this a regular feature: Mark Lee reinterprets music into different genres it would better fit into, and then sings the result! (although you can name it something a tad less prolix if you like) Twitter: Instagram: my god, possibly the best article you’ve ever written. He's a writer, a podcaster, a musician, and a bureaucrat. Mark Lee is the Internet's leading authority on the Terminator movies. Readers: what do you think of this unholy combination? Have you gained a new appreciation for Ke$ha? Or did I only succeed in sending Muddy Waters spinning in his grave? Sound off in the comments! More tellingly, the sum total isn’t that far removed from a Muddy Waters tune along the lines of “Hootchie Coochie Man”… Thematically, it makes sense (well, except for the pedicure part) and isn’t nearly as weird as the picture above suggests. And to further illustrate your point, I’ve taken the liberty of re-recording a bit of “Tik Tok”…Īs a Muddy Waters-esque old school blues song. And that’s cool! Guys have been writing songs like this for decades… Nothing wrong with a girl doing it.īrilliant observation, Brimstone. The author of this piece is right – she’s doing the rock star persona thing, which ties into the Mick Jagger line. I don’t listen to much modern pop but I’ve been a rock fan for ages, and male fans ‘glamorizing self-destructive behavior’ goes back as far as the blues, if beyond. In the resulting discussion in the comments, OTI reader “Brimstone” had this to say about how the song furthers Ke$ha’s image as a “skank”: Last week, Fenzel wrote a thoughtful analysis of the song “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha.
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