rmutt on 05-09-2008 @ 05:27:52 PM
the song is about her frustration with the lower east side "artistes" as well as the depression dealing with her dad's death. After her dad died she moved back to the L.E.S. and found a lot of hipsters who wanted to create a bohemian persona, when really they were nobodies.
And add. Taking into consideration the songs video. Put out by Santogold. She is an artist with a very specific vision of herself and her art. I think she is making a statement about the civil rights movement with the video more than the song. But both fit into each other well, the work together speaks of the ways we catagorize people and the ways that the upcoming election will change the U.S. The video is a chilling, artist representation of the very real threat of violence that CHANGE threatens. Weather it's changing your stereotype of black women in the media, music or the nations understanding of itself and its violent history and oppression of people of color. CHANGE is not as pretty or clean, easy or artsy as optimists might believe. She had to fight, with her horse and army of black girls, paving the way, to get where she's gotten. And to lead others into the fight. FUCK THE HIPSTERS and all the pigeon holing FUCKS of the world.
I have to concur with
rmutt on 05-09-2008 @ 05:27:52 PM the song is about her frustration with the lower east side "artistes" as well as the depression dealing with her dad's death. After her dad died she moved back to the L.E.S. and found a lot of hipsters who wanted to create a bohemian persona, when really they were nobodies.
And add. Taking into consideration the songs video. Put out by Santogold. She is an artist with a very specific vision of herself and her art. I think she is making a statement about the civil rights movement with the video more than the song. But both fit into each other well, the work together speaks of the ways we catagorize people and the ways that the upcoming election will change the U.S. The video is a chilling, artist representation of the very real threat of violence that CHANGE threatens. Weather it's changing your stereotype of black women in the media, music or the nations understanding of itself and its violent history and oppression of people of color. CHANGE is not as pretty or clean, easy or artsy as optimists might believe. She had to fight, with her horse and army of black girls, paving the way, to get where she's gotten. And to lead others into the fight. FUCK THE HIPSTERS and all the pigeon holing FUCKS of the world.