BONDE DO ROLE ‘With Lasers’

hate it. sounds like a joke.

'Office Boy' went in the singloads chart at #75 the other week which isn't that bad for a song in a foreign language (outside Eurovision) these days. Zane Lowe airplay i suspect.

i hate bonde do role.

Saw them supporting the Junior Boys and they were great.

Might tire without that energy, though, I guess.

xpost - I think you said you were at that gig, too, Lex, is that where your hate springs from?

yeah i was at that gig, didn't think much of them beforehand though - they seemed gimmicky even by rio funk's standards, and of course while i love rio funk magpieing over samples of madonna and random eurotechno, i draw the line at nasty heavy metal.

no idea why these people, of that entire scene, are being so successful.

they seem very "wacky" - i hate everything which is "wacky". i hate the word wacky".

Album's good fun.

i lovingly detest them. the whole album just sounds like one stupid unfunny snide little joke. i saw them live and liked them there but all the shitty metal samples annoy me. if it breaks baile funk to rock fans who wouldnt otherwise have taken an interest then cool but the album is still shit.

oh i doubt it will.

it pisses me off no end that people will only pay attention to rio funk if it has shitty metal samples on it. i don't care whether rock fans are turned on to rio funk, i think rock fans should fuck off.

well they do kinda help audiences get bigger and things like that which helps the artists make money so theyre not that bad.

then again if they make bondo de role make money then they are pretty fucking bad.

The 'metal samples' are a very, very minor concern as far as I'm concerned; I can't see 'baile funk w/ metal samples' winning over some mythical crowd of awful rock fan people, Alex, and if you're letting the tiniest signifier of 'rock' put you off then you're being totally disingenuous.

well why would i listen to, or even pay attention to, bad rio funk with bad metal samples when i could listen to good rio funk without them? why would anyone?

Because the 'bad' bit is entirely subjective, darling.

Lex you are missing the point totally. Judging by all the Bonde Do Role I've heard, the target audience isn't people who are particularly into rio funk, samples or otherwise, or even people who might have heard of it. It's for people who want to hear familar stuff recontextualised - the 2ManyDJs crowd basically. Presumably Bonde Do Role actually want to make some money.

I bet they'd be awesome live and I will probably go and see them at Glasto but I'm not sure I'd want to listen to a whole album of it.

The album's only 30 minutes so it's not exactly taxing.

they were brilliant silly messy fun at the camden crawl but i'm really disappointed with the album. i don't think anyone (least of all the band) expected them to be taken this seriously though - they're just kids enjoying themselves.

the target audience isn't people who are particularly into rio funk, samples or otherwise, or even people who might have heard of it. It's for people who want to hear familar stuff recontextualised

even worse than i could have possibly imagined

i mean if that's the point i really don't have any interest in 'getting' it

JUST A BIT OF FUN LADS, right

Why don't you just buy a gun, Alex?

"i don't think anyone (least of all the band) expected them to be taken this seriously though"

isnt that part of the problem? that theyre IMPOSSIBLE to take at all seriously. thats not actually my main problem with them, its that they just seem like a bunch of arsholes taking the piss out of baile funk without much actual love for it. or at least their love for it relies on taking the piss out of it. i mean, im not saying baile funk is some deeply serious music, but im not too fond of the almost contemptuous attitude people who like BDR and maybe the group too have towards the music...

and if people want to hear familar stuff recontextualised in gimmicky new ways, then they should maybe go back and revisit jive bunny (who BDR remind me of) or someone. theres something about hearing baile funk beats with those jarring guitars that just make this seem like the fucking andrew wk meets jive bunny of baile funk. and no, no one needs an andrew wk of baile funk.

titchy fully otm.

nick, as teedra moses once said, i'm too cute to fight.

(when i interviewed her she told me this great story which ended with the phrase "so i just HAD to go out there and start beating her HEAD with a STICK!!!")

how long before the gordian knots that lex et al tie themselves into over what must be taken seriously and what must not be taken too seriously just need to be cut off at the root

(as per, some actual critical thought-motion might help)

(cuz "i hate X therefore Y sucks" does not count as "thought")

(also unsurprisingly, actual baile funk uses guitars and/or heavy metal all the time)

Yeah I was about to say. Their "heroes" are a lot more open-minded than they are (not surprisingly.)

i haven't heard this. but i've seen these guys live a couple times and they are terrific. totally fun and not assholish or rock-pandering or whatever you people dream up these days.

guitars! RUN!!

i found the album a lot diff to when i saw them supporting diplo

They really are fantastic live. Also, they don't just do metal samples - their version of "Trap Star" is fun. And how can anyone hate on their use of "The Final Countdown," especially after Arrested Development?

b/c 'the final countdown' is one of the worst songs ever in whatever context?

'The Final Countdown' might make a good sample slowed down for a hip pop chanteuse (Brooke Valentine! Cassie! Nadiya!)

Small-mindedness is small-mindedness no matter which direction it comes from.

'The Final Countdown' might make a good sample slowed down for a hip pop chanteuse (Brooke Valentine! Cassie! Nadiya!)

thankfully all r&b divas are far too 'small-minded' (ie have decently high standards & a modicum of taste) to contemplate this, i think i am safe (though brr wouldn't put it past rihanna)

this year's crop of interchangeable pop-r&b divas being so well known for having such firm control over their own projects

Sounds kinda like the Go Team. I'm gonna go see 'em in DC

hate it. sounds like a joke.

Yeah. Well, I don't hate hate it. But it certainly does sound like a joke.