By Zee Nonjabulo
Ok guys what is Die Antwoord’s main goal within the music industry? To give us music or to have us crap scared of their music videos?
Every time I hear that the duo has a new song out I find myself watching the video (Because chances are, people are talking about it as well). By the time the 5minute video is done, I end up forgetting all about the actual song and find myself having difficulties erasing the gory images of their music video content. I’ve come to realise, or rather know, what to expect from Die Antwoord with regards to their videos;
Exhibit A:
You’re bound to see blood or someone get moulded by an animal which is exactly what we see in their new music video titled Pitbull Terrier. Some of you might remember their Fatty Boom Boom video too which was a visual diss to Lady Gaga. Yes in that video she too ends up as some lion's lunch and the same fate meets the bystander in the Pitbull Terrier video. Oh, throw in some blood baths and killings while we're at it.
Then there’s the sexual references. Ok don’t get me wrong; almost every other music video has some sort of sexual reference to it but Die Antwoord really takes it up a few notches.
Exhibit B:
Last year they released a very sexually inclined video titled Cookie Thumper. I still don't remember how the song goes but what I do remember is Yolandi's under wear and the graphic sex position she was positioned in right at the end of the video with her toothless lover.
Pitbull Terrier also has a bit of sexual actions in it, a dog humping a humans leg and Ninja gyrating his pelvis in a very eye-brow raising manner. Again, what's new.
We appreciate Die Antwoords style and the different manner in which they create music videos but why do they constantly create material that makes us cringe and make terrified facial expressions. Come on guys, this isn’t Scare Tactics if we wanted to see a scary video we’d tune into Sony Max! To Ninja and Yolandi Visser, tone it down a notch please, we get it, you guys are weird and do a good job at pushing boundaries but this is starting to become an art that's borderline cult-like and down right scary!