S.Mouse blackface contraversy???
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batmon said:white folks cant seem to let go of 80s gangster rap.
please move on to something else please.
If you're referring to the Fur Q video, it dates back 1994.
please move on to something else please.
If you're referring to the Fur Q video, it dates back 1994.
day said:Kinetic said:
The irony is this could actually be a song on the radio.
I Think there in lies the only redeeming quality about the whole thing. Not to mention the visual tone of the video in its entirety is remarkably on point. The day this episode aired, the shop next to the one I work at had Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow on HIGH rotation (ie 10-15 times in 8 hours) and I fail to see a difference, so all of those saying that this is an outdated view of rap need to fall back, this shit is still ALL OVER the radio.
I agree with many people that S'mouse is not really funny. I think the fact that Lilley improvises most of his material shows the worst in the case of S'mouse. Stein is right, the accent/phrasing is poor, he sounds more like the 15 year old taggers that hang around the train lines in Oz acting hard. Whether this is an intentional comment on young Australian males aping black American tropes is up for debate. Like NZ I switched off (or stopped downloading) after 3 episodes.
If you read all the responses in the article linked they obviously haven't bothered to watch a full episode, as his other character 'gran' is far more directly racist. However she's also a lot more amusing, so six of one half a dozen of the other. I think the character of S'mouse makes a lot more sense put into context of Nathan and Daniel, as he seems to echo a lot of the hyper male posturing that the boys engage in. That said, Lilley seems to just be exploring the different facets of what makes up the Australian male psyche, which I think is where the feeling of being a "one trick pony" comes from. If what we are seeing are different versions of the same character, it's because there is a direct relationship in how all of those characters combine to create the twins.
The irony is this could actually be a song on the radio.
I Think there in lies the only redeeming quality about the whole thing. Not to mention the visual tone of the video in its entirety is remarkably on point. The day this episode aired, the shop next to the one I work at had Wiz Khalifa - Black And Yellow on HIGH rotation (ie 10-15 times in 8 hours) and I fail to see a difference, so all of those saying that this is an outdated view of rap need to fall back, this shit is still ALL OVER the radio.
I agree with many people that S'mouse is not really funny. I think the fact that Lilley improvises most of his material shows the worst in the case of S'mouse. Stein is right, the accent/phrasing is poor, he sounds more like the 15 year old taggers that hang around the train lines in Oz acting hard. Whether this is an intentional comment on young Australian males aping black American tropes is up for debate. Like NZ I switched off (or stopped downloading) after 3 episodes.
If you read all the responses in the article linked they obviously haven't bothered to watch a full episode, as his other character 'gran' is far more directly racist. However she's also a lot more amusing, so six of one half a dozen of the other. I think the character of S'mouse makes a lot more sense put into context of Nathan and Daniel, as he seems to echo a lot of the hyper male posturing that the boys engage in. That said, Lilley seems to just be exploring the different facets of what makes up the Australian male psyche, which I think is where the feeling of being a "one trick pony" comes from. If what we are seeing are different versions of the same character, it's because there is a direct relationship in how all of those characters combine to create the twins.
