funk as superword?

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probably due to looking at too many fliers/etc for everything going on in town/etc -

"funk" is v.common parlance for describing something, up there with "hard", "dark", "soulful", etc. when "funk" is used as a descriptor advertising drum'n'bass, trance, hip-hop, house, & so on, it means wildly divergent things.

how/why did this happen?

(a source : something tim f said on a trance thread which I've badly adapted (butchered))

― Ess Kay (esskay), Saturday, 24 May 2003 05:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i hope you all have a superfunk christmas, and a golden new year. yeaaaaahhhh!

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 24 May 2003 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ahahaha. simon reynolds talking about the vocal complexity thread on blissblog :
"Sort of like a negative version of Kogan's Superwords, "flow", like "funk", is one of those terms that is hotly contested, but almost never unpacked. Who’s got it is subject to endless debate, but what it is or the way it works, almost never. So it ends up being used as a more au fait, "down" and slightly smarter-sounding/less-simplistic-sounding way of saying "I think this guy’s good."

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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