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Post by Julian on Jan 1, 2021 21:10:04 GMT 1
 EPISODE 09 • EXTERMINATION Gonorrhea Diarrhoea, Ordgie and Sis Anne DesitThis week you failed to impress the judges. The extermination challenge is your last chance to prove to us that you have the guts and the glamour to be spared and remain in the competition. Your performance in this challenge will seal your fate. Who will live and who will perish? Let us find out. For the extermination challenge, we have assigned you an adjective. It is your job to select a song that you think best fits this adjective, according to whichever interpretation of the adjective you see fit. The adjective you have been given is: ScathingThe deadline for this extermination challenge is 22:00 CET, 2 January 2021. Good luck, ghouls. |
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Post by alex(a)bg on Jan 1, 2021 21:44:04 GMT 1
*sigh*
we're back at it again..
before i start i want to apologise to miss Shiva for my behaviour in the workroom
i also don't want the beef i had with Junglepu$$y in #politics get in the way
ironically, for this extermination challenge i'm sending a song off of an industrial hip-hop album
the adjective for this week is scathing
now, this is a big english word for my eastern european brain so i had to pay a visit to miss oxford dictionary and this is what i got:
this is the song i have chosen
Born Free by M.I.A.
this is the audio but i would advise you to watch the video as well although i must include a massive TRIGGER WARNING
M.I.A., an ethnic tamil british rapper, is criticizing the sri lankan government in her 2010 song Born Free, a single off of
/\/\ /\ Y /\ - her third and most controversial album.
her father, was a prominent figure in the sri lankan civil war who had to flee the country to escape persecution from the majority sinhala government in sri lanka.
throughout the song, she's telling us her experience growing up in war-torn sri lanka.
she is not only critical of sri lanka's government, but also america's government - displayed in other songs of her
but you could also apply part of the Born Free lyrics to the american government.
the music video depicts a genocide against red-haired people.
she is using this as a metaphor for the ethnic cleansing of the tamil minority by the sinhala majority in her native sri lanka.
the video depicts military force and unjustified brutality.
the artwork is highly distressing so i wouldn't recommend looking the song up.
upon it's release, the music video was deemed NSFW and too gruesome which led to it being taken down from youtube.
subsequently the video was re-uploaded although you have to be logged in and confirm you are 18+ to view the video.
the song has been used in several hong kong protests against the chinese government.
m.i.a.'s message is actually very plain and simple - human beings are born free.
this is the very first sentence from UN's declaration of human rights.
and it is very concerning if we have to say this in 2021...
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Post by Chante™ on Jan 2, 2021 1:35:05 GMT 1
WEEK 9: CLEARLY I DIDN'T WORK BITCH
Ōkami shinkō (eng. Wolf Worship)
Seppuku Pistols
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Clearly Amazon didn't ship a safe placement to me cause here I am. Something Amazon did deliver is a copy of Miss Merriam-Webster's dictionary. And there, she describes scathing as "bitterly severe, harmful, and/or painful". We love conciseness, but clearly I don't lmao.
So lemme introduce yall to Seppuku Pistols. They are called an Punk Band that got trapped in Edō. The group technically started on New Year's Eve in 1999 as the solo project of Iida Danko, but they never released any music officially. However, they reincarnated on the 11th of March 2011, the day of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Prior to the quake, the group was a stereotypical electro-punk band with songs titled "No Mishima, No Future" (a drag on the reliance of Mishima, Shizuoka as an industrial hub), "Kill The CIA", and more. However, after the quake, they travelled back to Edō. They abandoned electricity in all of their songs, using only traditional instruments, like the shamisen (a three-stringed-pseudo-guitar), taiko, shakuhachi, and bamboo flutes.
The group is also known for their portrayal as Edō period pesants with their wearing of geta clogs, worker kimonos, and conical hats. They take over large parks playing not only their own music but covers of punk classics. According to Iida, "Edō is not just a word to describe the old Tōkyō, it is a premodern era of Japan. Edō represents roots of Japan’s counter cultures that were killed or hidden under the westernisation and modernisation after the Meiji revolution 150 years ago. What we are trying to do is beyond art or music.” This group keeps this message up with their over 9 year career.
Like I mentioned last time I was here, Ōkami can mean god, however, with the character used, it means the species of wolf known as the Honshū wolf in this context. The Ōkami started to decline in population around the time of the Meiji Restoration, eventually dying off permanently in 1905, when the last one was killed in Higashiyoshino village in Nara. Rabies appeared in the wolves in the 18th century, leading the Meiji government to endorse wolf hunts, as they turned towards killing humans as well as their normal prey of horses, deers and rabbits.
In Shinto, Ōkami are seen as the messengers of the kami. With them being killed off, the kami's messages haven't been recieved.
This song features the traditional Seppuku Pistols instrumental (taiko, guitar, and shamisen), layered with screeching shakuhachis and bamboo flutes, woven together with crow caws, cicada noises, fire, and wolf howling. Not only is the instrumental a harsh conglomeration of noise and tritonalities that aren't found in western music very often, but the song itself is a scathing drag on the hyper-modernization of Japan. As Iida also stated, "Ōkami is also a symbol/metaphor of the lost tradition and culture of Edo period in the course of modernisation and westernisation of the country." With Japan being seen as a neon paradise, Seppuku Pistols is trying to cultivate an international understanding of Edō period music and how the hypermodernization of the world is terrible for the world. Their instrumental songs deliver their scathing message with an 18th century flair that is unique to this group.
LYRICS
Japanese (English)
sike yall thought [4]
jesus fuck i need to send something with lyrics once and a while cause goddamn |
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Post by Alper on Jan 2, 2021 16:48:22 GMT 1
EXTERMINATION
Roman
Mashrou' Leila
scathing UK /dɪsˈdeɪn.fəl/ US /dɪsˈdeɪn.fəl/ criticizing someone or something in a severe way.
"Equality. Solidarity. Intersectionality," writes the band in a Facebook post, announcing the release of their latest single.
Working with an emerging female director from Lebanon named Jessy Moussallem, the all-male members of the band (singer and lyricist Hamed Sinno, violinist Haig Papazian, keyboardist and guitarist Firas Abou Fakher, bassist Ibrahim Badr on bass and Carl Gerges on drums) take a back seat — quite literally — to a group of women.
There's a lot of subtlety in both the text and the visuals to "Roman" that challenges stereotypes — from all comers. As the band explains, the women in the video are "styled to over-articulate their ethnic background, in a manner more typically employed by Western media to victimize them. This seeks to disturb the dominant global narrative of hyper-secularized (white) feminism, which increasingly positions itself as incompatible with Islam and the Arab world, celebrating the various modalities of Middle Eastern feminism."
The women are dressed in an array of figure-hiding Middle Eastern clothing like caftans and abayas, and with many wearing various kinds of veils, from headscarves to the face-covering niqab -- these are especially stereotypical outfits, given Lebanon's diversity and what women there actually wear. While Sinno's lyrics tend towards the elliptical, the song's title might also be playing with the idea of cultural divides: Rum is the classical Arabic word for Romans, or Byzantines — i.e., non-Muslims — and later became associated with Christians and Europeans more broadly. Sinno sees the video as an ode to self-realization: a rejection of the idea that Muslim women, especially in the Arab world, cannot be empowered unless they lose their adherence to tradition.
The thrust of the video, however, is one word from the song's refrain: 'Aleihum — "Charge!" It's a cry for self-realization, as Mashrou' Leila explains: a way of "treating oppression not as a source of victimhood, but as the fertile ground from which resistance can be weaponized."
When Mashrou' Leila conceived "Roman" some five years ago, the band thought of it as a song about betrayal. Its opening lyrics are dark: "I don't intend on swallowing your lies / The words will burn my throat." Later, lead singer Hamad Sinno cries: "Worms carve my body and the earth embraces my skin / How could you sell me to the Romans?"
LYRICS (translated from Arabic)
I don't intend on swallowing your lies
The words will burn my throat
I don't intend on dissecting your intentions
Keep your tongue in it's cage
Keep the time that I gave you
and suffocate my self, what she was for you
But before you bury me
Tell me what was my price
Charge! (Upon them!)
Worms carve my body
and the earth embraces my skin
How could you sell me to the Romans?
Worms carve my body
and the earth embraces my skin
How could you sell me to the Romans?
Charge! (Upon them!)
How could you sell me to the Romans?
How have I lost you to the Romans?
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Post by Eke on Jan 2, 2021 16:53:06 GMT 1
 Gonorrhea Diarrhoea, Ordgie and Sis Anne DesitThe person who survived this week's extermination and gets to live another day is... OrdgieCongratulations. The other person who survived this week's extermination and gets to live another day is... Sis Anne Desit
Congratulations. This means that... Gonorrhea Diarrhoea
It is the end of the road for you.
And now you must face your demise.
Bye-bye. See you in hell. |
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