Robyn Covers Saul Williams' "List Of Demands (Reparations)"
Whenever I read about hip-hop poet Saul Williams, I'm reminded of something Lindsay blogged back in March:
For the past month or so, I've been enjoying a really bad video on MTV2's Subterranean. It's by a guy named Saul Williams and the song is called "List of Demands (Reparations)." It would just be a normal bad video for a normal bad (but catchy) song, if it weren't for the climax, where the music pauses and Mr. Williams looks at the camera very seriously and dramatically and says: "God is just a baby. And the diaper is wet." It's gotten to the point where I fast forward through the show to get to that line. It makes me laugh so hard.Lindsay, you may like the Bizarro Swedish version better. It has hand clapping and giggling (but not the offending line) and recently aired on SVT2's Musikbyrån.
Saul Williams - "List Of Demands" (Windows Media)
Robyn Carlsson & Jenny Wilson - "List Of Demands" (Google Video)
Thanks Triforce for the heads up!
Posted at 12:11 PM
Tags: Robyn | Saul Williams
why does this feel so 1995?
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Awww. I always liked that song. Poor Saul, he's got a lot to say and nobody wuvs him.
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Why does pointing out when something is "so 1995" seem like the kind of faux snobbery that is "so 1995?"
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Now, James... we all know that faux snobbery is just as hot now as it was in '95. In fact, more so, now that the blog-o-sphere has convinced everyone that their opinions are... you know... interesting.
Anyway, I like "List of Demands" and LOVE Robyn. As it turns out, these two great tastes turn out a little weird when you put them together. Personally, I kinda like Robyn's cover of Prince's Jack U Off. It's pretty nice.
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Goddamit, do I have to bring the smack back you wack pack? It's me, Kaseem, and man oh man, more stereogum elitist white racism. "Look at the funny black man passionately crying out for reparations! Oh, he's so amusing. Those quaint little things he says, about wanting justice for enslavement. Dahhling, let's buy more iPods so we can listen to our Iron and Whine while New Orleans sinks into the sea and into dust." Damn you williamsburg based honkies. One of those days the meek are going to give up waiting to inherit the earth and burn that motherfucker down.
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what?!!! that's a great song & a great video...
it's made by http://www.brunx.com, check out the videos he did for calla, interpol, chromeo, etc.
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I'm with Kaseem. The Saul Williams is great. It looks like it was shot at the house party after the revolution. Robyn's version works too...
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I'm really not diggin Saul Williams but seeing the contrast between him and these two Swedes rockin out to it was funny. As for Jesus' wet diaper, uh, what's so funny?
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Ridiculous. I love Saul, but the Swedish girly girls don't do anything for it. Plus, the line is "her diaper is wet." If you read Saul's poetry you'd know that he plays heavily on the view of God as a female.
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jenny wilson is amazing... i can't wait until the rest of the world realizes her incredible talent
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I'd much rather watch the pretty girls sing it than Saul.
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"I'd much rather watch the pretty girls sing it than Saul."
Neither of those women are pretty.
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Jenny Wilson is awesome!
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Call me crazy, but I'd rather stare at Saul's pearly whites than those two ladies. They're sorta bleh.
While I'll agree that Williams's video isn't that great, the song is amazing. So is the rest of the album, for that matter.
As far as Robyn & Jenny's version... could they make it any more souless and boring? They censored it and destroyed it. It's like a really lame version you can play while your grandmother's around and not have to worry about her getting offended. Awful!
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Oh yeah, the Swedish girls' version is so much better. I mean, yeah, Saul Williams is a part of a community that might actually HAVE grounds for asking for reparations, but the girls sing pretty! Who wants to listen to a guy who shouts at the camera lol?!!/?!1!!?!1/?!
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