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I liked the bit where they danced in sync but that was about it. I watched their endeavor twice but felt nothing – twenty minutes I will never get back. Was it the incessant and crude product placement? Perhaps it was the cliché pseudo-homoeroticism? Or maybe it was the bastardized B-movie motif that left me cold? Truthfully, I couldn’t tell ya. According to Gaga the video was, "A commentary on the kind of country that we are [referring to the States]." It’s not my place to say – I’m an outsider – but it didn’t represent the America I know.
So, here instead is a music video of exquisite beauty and incredible integrity. In my opinion it’s the auditory equivalent of a 3-minute orgasm. I didn’t pay for it and the artist weren’t selling – I literally stumbled across it today. I am immensely grateful to Ronnie, the musician. The performance made me feel – and I am the richer for it.
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- Cheyelle
*source: The Daily Telegraph
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Welcome back, honey child! That's a splendid guitar solo and a very African melody. It didn't quite get me off, but maybe I wasn't in the right mood. As for Lady Gaga, someone recently asked me a question about her vagina. I wasn't able to give a definitive answer.
ReplyDeleteThank you, my favourite silverback! *hugs the primate* It's good to be back with my cyber-friends.
ReplyDeleteSorry the solo didn't quite get you "off" - you must be one of them pleasure delaying Mountain Gorillas.
As for Gaga's clunge, I haven't given it much thought. I suppose you could always do the banana test. – Having said that, she does expose it @1:11 in the explicit version of Telephone. It's pixillated, but I'm sure I glimpsed the face of Jesus in it…
Hey cheyelle,
ReplyDeleteIm the one of the writers for the whiningprogamingshit blog, and I just wanna say we are honored to have our poo picture in your blog ;). and btw, both of us from the blog are actually professional jazz musicians and we think your taste in music is amazing : )
I hope to hear from you again!
Lav
Brilliant! Thank you so much for getting back to me so promptly - you have no idea how hard it is to get such good quality images of fecal matter on the Web these days. – My compliments to the photographer :P
ReplyDeletePlease do feel welcome to return to my blog. Our taste in music and our perfervid interest in all things ‘toilet’, suggests to me we should definitely stay in touch.
Have a super weekend! x
Cheyelle.
Well, the Gaga and Ronnie videos do bring up several points:
ReplyDeleteAs an American I can tell you that the USA depicted in the video is real. Lady Gaga and Beyonce regularly go to diners and poison not only their ex-pimps/boyfriends but all the other innocent people eating in the greasy spoon as well. Then they dance in red white and blue bikinis until the police arrive, escaping just in time - after a costume change of course.
If I had a nickle for every time I've heard on the news that Gaga and Beyonce have struck again. Seriously it was funny the first couple of times but now we're all "Shit, girls. Do something different."
Oh, and nice use of subtlety with the poison. Clearly labeling it and then showing a recipe. Thanks, Gaga, cause we're all too stupid to know that when you pour something a person's drink when they're not looking that it's poison.
Re. the Gaga nether regions, the rumor has been circulated that she is either
a. really a man
b. a hermaphrodite
and either way she has a dick. This video is meant to dispel those rumors by way of the pixelated view and then one of the guards saying "I knew she didn't have a dick."
Of course, pixelated evidence isn't really evidence but if you closely study the skimpy outfits she wears in concert, there is no way that she could possibly hide even the smallest Jon Gosselin size penis.
On the other hand, Beyonce has a huge johnson. That's why Jay-Z likes her.
And by the way, why isn't he dead yet?
As for the product placements, I counted 3: Diet Coke, Virgin Mobile (an odd choice since the actual message of the song seems to be "Bitch, quit calling me when I'm up in the club!"), and PlentyOfFish.com. I don't know if you can count the use of the Pussy Wagon as being a product placement for the movie 'Kill Bill.'
OK, enough about Gaga. The song by Ronnie is wonderful. I love watching her left hand. Maybe this is a weird thought but I liken it to the enjoyment I get from watching Marx Brothers movies when Chico plays the piano. Pure joy.
And doesn't that tell you something about American culture in the teens? Seriously, I actually like Gaga. I think she has some talent. But the US, with all of our wealth and privilege. This is what we put out? Pointless videos about telephones, prisons, and poisoning people in diners.
Botswana? Pure joy.
Love it, thanks for sharing it.
Wow! That is the biggest comment I've ever seen - it's the CN Tower of comments. LMFAO!!
ReplyDeletePeople in Liverpool would love you; despite all your faults (as alluded to in your, 'A Man I'll Never Be?' post) you got great passion. – I used to think I had too much feeling, but I’ve come to suspect the problem is the other way around; other folks just don’t feel enough. Knowing the video affected you the way it affected me, has given me a wave of secondary pleasure.
I actually think you should publish the comment as a post in its own right - it seems a waste for it to be hidden away in here. For a note that's full of wit, sarcasm and anger – it also has a poignant quality. For example, I love the commentary about the "left hand" and the comparisons to Chico's piano playing in a Marx Brothers movie.
Incidentally (and somewhat ironically), I think Ronnie might be a chap. Go to the following YouTube video of Ronnie performing another song:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Bokete7#p/u/28/6qSPQOrmvHE
Note how Ronnie is referred to as a 'he' in the description - a typo maybe? Between Ronnie & Gaga I'm utterly confused :P
What I do know is, I found the performance spellbinding, and it was my absolute pleasure to share it with you Joe. x.
A comment in your blog is not "hidden" my dear. I'll check out the other video.
ReplyDeleteI think I have the definitive answer to the question. Meara O'Reilly from boingboing.net interviewed the person who posted the videos on YouTube:
ReplyDelete"Youtube user Bokete7, (who shot the video), told me he is: 'Ronnie Moipolai from Kopong village in the Kweneng district 50 km west of the capitol Gaborone. He is 29 years old and goes around the shebeens selling and playing his songs for 5Pula each (80dollarcents). He learned guitar from his now late father, has 3 brothers that also play guitar (KB is one of them), has also a big sister and plenty of kids in the yard. Nobody has a formal job and his mother sells Chibuku beer and firewood they get from the bush trying to make ends meet.'"
OK, now I'm even more amazed. Does he look 29 to you? That's a hard life in Botswana. Makes me thankful for all I have.
Oh...here's the link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/18/happy-new-year-luie.html
Thanks for the link Joe - the comments on the site made for interesting reading.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about the age disparity too - he has the oldest eyes I've ever seen…