As News Desk Brass Shit Bricks, Inky Features Writers Go BUCK WILD!
Have you noticed? As we wind around to the zero hour of “Bark At The Moon: Guild Strike ‘06,” there’s definitely a “school’s-out-for-summer” vibe on Broad Street. Although, to be fair, it might also be a little something those of us in the ‘biz call clipbuilding. To wit:
¬? Flingin’ In The Rain: Being a expos?© on the new hip-hop phenomenon of spraying the audience with thousands of dollars, one single (and the requisite weave-pulling and fistfighting that comes along) at a time. Quite possibly the best article in the Inky since… we don’t know when.
¬? Elizabeth Wellington’s Ugly Cool: Nice try, honey. But try as you may, you cannot justify watching Ugly Betty by pumping a feature out of it in which you attach fashion trends you’ve seen on the street and likewise cannot understand. No coolhunting pieces on Slate for you!
¬? And lastly, the rebirth of the Alka-Seltzer song. Well, it’s good to know that there’s only 149 hard decisions left.
Overall analysis: PhilaPapers.com, you better start looking for some seed money.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
In re: Flingin’ in the Rain -
I’m forever amazed at these fucking idiot hip-hop “artists” who are just modern day minstrels.
Don’t they see the stereotypes they’re perpetuating?
November 29th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
‘Ugly Cool’ could have been interesting, I love the globe-trotting street evolution that has brought the multicolored hoodie to the fore: Nigo made multi-colored camo hoodies in 1999 with color schemes directly lifted off of early 80s Warhol schemes, Pharrell brings it in one swoop to Hip Hop fashion by wearing it for a few frames in the Frontin’ video, bootleggaz start putting out increasingly weird variations for South Street, and now it’s abstracted enough that it’s now looking like early ’90s back to Africa gear… you know Daishikis and a Different World and Brand Nubian. Round and round it goes. Instead that article was about as nourishing as eating the smoke that comes out of the manhole covers sometimes… bah