Chris, who sits next to me: “I wonder what Nas and Kelis are doing right now?”
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Shane of the Exciting Life (pray for us) asks whether I like Tweet. Yes, and on your recommendation in the first place. I think Timbaland’s stuff is better when he doesn’t lay it on too thick (or feel the need to get his mumbly vocal paws all over something), and in Tweet I think he and Missy have found someone amenable to something really slinky. And I recall that last year, some people were outraged by a performance* at the Performance Space by some Koori girls last year, in which they did a silhouetted striptease mime to “Oops (Oh My)”. If girls are only allowed to have an expressive sexuality within the confines of some moralistic, indier-than-thou and implicitly privatised sandpit, rather than engage with whatever popular culture may be circulating in their domain, then heaven help us. Critically exploring how sex and commodification are necessarily negotiated in a libidinal economy dominated by the market is one thing. Knee-jerk moralism is another. As ever, I’m reminded of a Spartacist headline: “UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF BOURGEOIS FEMINISTS AND ULTRA-RIGHT-WING SPARK ANTI-SEX WITCHHUNT!”. No doubt I’ve grievously offended certain comrades, but what the hell.
- Part of a community cultural development project facilitated by MC Wire, who also helped workshop the Wilcannia Mob’s hit “Down River” (Track 2 in the “Tracks” section of Morganics’ site).