Rich Bitch video gets released. Not sure how it makes me feel. You?

10 Mar 2011, Posted by Cape Town Girl in Celebrity, money money money, music, music video, south africa, 3 Comments

Just watched Yolandi Vi$$er from Die Antwoord’s video for Ritch Bitch. Not sure how I feel about it. Kinda feel like they ‘underutilised an opportunity’ here seeing as this is definitely the best song on their whole album. Felt it was a little ‘non-dynamic’ via her ‘lounging around on that bed the whole time’. But then again, maybe her toenails are as long as her fingernails and that ‘makes walking around and dancing sexy quite hard’.

I do like how they treated the best line in this song: “Nutella on my sarmie / fokken dik gesmeer bra” – translation: Nutella on my sandwich, smeared quite thickly. She takes a good big bite out of it and it kinda reminds me of two girls one sandwich. Or something like that.

There are some things I find a bit confusing about this vid. Like the fact that it ‘looks like it was made with R400 and a trip to A-Store in Kloof Street’. I kinda thought we were maybe past ‘giant fake popcorn buckets’ and ‘hologram lenses’ and ‘marijuana shades’. Feel like ‘we got over that’ when we all ‘got over the Scar haircut‘ and had agreed 2 ‘put this all behind us and not mention it again’.

Was kinda hoping that Interscope would take the ‘very raw and unpolished and sometimes debatable talent’ that is Yolandi and Ninja and ‘give them the LA treatment’. When I look at Die Antwoord in this vid, am just ‘not feeling growth’. It seems like they have ‘gone 2 LA and stayed in their hotel room skyping Cape Town’. Can I also ask a bold question here? Yolandi, Ninja, DID Y’ALL FILM THIS VID ON UR IPHONE 8MM APP? Yes, am referring to this black & white treatment. It’s okay. Maybe Interscope ‘doesn’t take financial risks’ on new artists / ‘artists who incorporate rats in2 their personal brands’.

All in all, it’s a good, shiney, gold effort. I’d give you guys hi-fives if I saw y’alls in Kloof Street and I wasn’t ‘too scared u would kill me if i spoke 2 u’.