Gildan Bladeborn said:
You are absolutely right, no one posting in this thread is going to agree with you on those song choices, because you've collated a collection of songs that almost anyone else who posts on these forums would only submit to a "best songs of [insert year]" thread if they were dead set on being an obvious troll; those are all widely considered to be terrible and devoid of merit by our fellow internet pundits. I've never even seen anyone mention Die Antwoord except to marvel at just how staggeringly awful they are, or be embarrassed on the behalf of the country they originate from, issuing apologetic statements on its behalf.
At least with anyone else I could be reasonably assured they were joking, but when you say stuff like that it's scary, and makes me cherish the fact that none of those things intersect with my life outside of people on the internet complaining about them; the most annoying musical habit I have to put up with is a parent with an unhealthy (read: any sort of) obsession with Barry Manilow. I am truly blessed.
I deliberately gave details about why I like each of these songs so doubters would know that I wasn't trolling, but my like of these groups (in paricluar the first two) is well-documented on this site anyway.
You bring up an interesting and very correct point, which is that the tastes of the average tech-savvy netizen are typically far, far divorced from what people in the real world actually
like. The fact is, people do like this stuff. If there's one thing that all four of the bands I linked have in common besides the fact that I like them and that many other Escapists don't/won't, it's that they're all extremely popular and hot in marketplace right now, even despite the large amount of unfavourable press etc. I'll leave you to speculate on why that is, but I assure you that the usual cynical reasons people trot out (marketing, auto-tune, payola) are often far less true than the simple fact that
a lot of people like what they hear. Die Antwoord is playing a big festival where I live soon and no-one here apart from Internet haters even knows who the fuck they are...
