Comments on: The coming of the new order http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/08/27/the_coming_of_t/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Punjabi Boy http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/08/27/the_coming_of_t/comment-page-1/#comment-22789 Punjabi Boy Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:06:07 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2112#comment-22789 <p>Bongo</p> <p>Someone has to do something - these Asian MC's are mostly just clowns and when I see another pouting Indian girl who thinks she is the next Destiny Child I want to yell.</p> <p>My thing is this - if you are not going to bring something new to the table like MIA has done stay at home and wash your hair and shut up because you are just embarassing yourself - especially when you start rapping and singing in an America accent - you saps!</p> <p>Same goes for bhangra although in the last six months some good stuff has started being produced again.</p> Bongo

Someone has to do something – these Asian MC’s are mostly just clowns and when I see another pouting Indian girl who thinks she is the next Destiny Child I want to yell.

My thing is this – if you are not going to bring something new to the table like MIA has done stay at home and wash your hair and shut up because you are just embarassing yourself – especially when you start rapping and singing in an America accent – you saps!

Same goes for bhangra although in the last six months some good stuff has started being produced again.

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By: Bongo http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/08/27/the_coming_of_t/comment-page-1/#comment-22745 Bongo Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:11:46 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2112#comment-22745 <p>Is it just me or is "Make it new or just stay indoors and cook stew" a great opening for an Asian aunty crew of Beyoncé's grandma wannabes? Yup the Tamil Tigers poster girl sure does bring something new to the table and that's why she's made so many waves. I'm 100% with you. Shall we form our own alternative Asian group? You're clearly the bhangra element, I'm coming from the drum&bass and old skool angle. Naahh..not alternate enough. Yet. But if we widen the net to all SMers, I'm sure we have some nutty musicians on here...?</p> Is it just me or is “Make it new or just stay indoors and cook stew” a great opening for an Asian aunty crew of Beyoncé’s grandma wannabes? Yup the Tamil Tigers poster girl sure does bring something new to the table and that’s why she’s made so many waves. I’m 100% with you. Shall we form our own alternative Asian group? You’re clearly the bhangra element, I’m coming from the drum&bass and old skool angle. Naahh..not alternate enough. Yet. But if we widen the net to all SMers, I’m sure we have some nutty musicians on here…?

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By: Punjabi Boy http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/08/27/the_coming_of_t/comment-page-1/#comment-22739 Punjabi Boy Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:45:21 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2112#comment-22739 <p>Bongo</p> <p>The world just does not need another crew of Asian girl <a href="http://www.serese.com/photos.htm">Beyonce wannabes</a> - bring something new to the table!</p> <p>Look at M.I.A she brings something new - what are these RnB girls doing except chewing old grass - please - and enough of the bad <b><i>Southall</i></b> <i><b>Girl</b></i> attitude <a href="http://www.serese.com/photos.htm">staring into the camera</a> as if you are so dangerous and feisty and sexy and bad - as if I havent had enough of that kind of Indian girl with attitude and head stuck up herself IN REAL LIFE to last me a lifetime already!</p> <p>Make it new or just stay indoors and cook stew.</p> Bongo

The world just does not need another crew of Asian girl Beyonce wannabes – bring something new to the table!

Look at M.I.A she brings something new – what are these RnB girls doing except chewing old grass – please – and enough of the bad Southall Girl attitude staring into the camera as if you are so dangerous and feisty and sexy and bad – as if I havent had enough of that kind of Indian girl with attitude and head stuck up herself IN REAL LIFE to last me a lifetime already!

Make it new or just stay indoors and cook stew.

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By: Bong Breaker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/08/27/the_coming_of_t/comment-page-1/#comment-22684 Bong Breaker Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:12:38 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2112#comment-22684 <p>I typed a few extraneous words in that last bit. I'm hoping you get what I mean. I'm not trying to be overly negative, but creative criticism is hilariously absent from the music world, until you get to a record company and they say 'clear off'. This is coming from someone involved in music - it's a horrible, back-stabbing, two-faced, bitter and superficial world. And for the likes of Serese, it's even worse as they're defined as an 'Asian group' - I can only speak for the British South Asian music scene, but it's disgracefully unprofessional on the whole. There are some very notable exceptions - mostly toward the drum&bass crowd. I think D'Arcy do themselves many favours by not aligning themselves too strongly with any Asian angle.</p> I typed a few extraneous words in that last bit. I’m hoping you get what I mean. I’m not trying to be overly negative, but creative criticism is hilariously absent from the music world, until you get to a record company and they say ‘clear off’. This is coming from someone involved in music – it’s a horrible, back-stabbing, two-faced, bitter and superficial world. And for the likes of Serese, it’s even worse as they’re defined as an ‘Asian group’ – I can only speak for the British South Asian music scene, but it’s disgracefully unprofessional on the whole. There are some very notable exceptions – mostly toward the drum&bass crowd. I think D’Arcy do themselves many favours by not aligning themselves too strongly with any Asian angle.

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By: Bong Breaker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/08/27/the_coming_of_t/comment-page-1/#comment-22681 Bong Breaker Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:51:59 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2112#comment-22681 <p>The sepiafication is tenuous at best ;) One quarter Asian this band be. But I suppose the band are named after him. They launched their single a few months ago in Central London, to widespread critical silence. It's hard making it as a band. Who knows what will happen to them, but hey I wish them well.</p> <p>The other group mentioned in the article you reference Manish, <a href="http://www.serese.com/">Serese</a>, I met recently at the Rise festival - now I doubt you'll get this stateside, so it's just for PB and the other Brits. I made a supermarket-girl group analogy.</p> <p>En Vogue - Marks and Spencer Destiny's Child - Tesco's Rouge - The Co-op Serese - LIDL.</p> <p>Oh dear. Don't worry, I was polite to them - when people are trying to break the music biz, it's always good for others to endlessly praise them making them, thus lulling them into a belief that they ARE "really really good" and SHOULD waste the money their parents put aside for uni, and SHOULD decide not to go to high school, and CAN be the next Destiny's Child. Groan.</p> The sepiafication is tenuous at best ;) One quarter Asian this band be. But I suppose the band are named after him. They launched their single a few months ago in Central London, to widespread critical silence. It’s hard making it as a band. Who knows what will happen to them, but hey I wish them well.

The other group mentioned in the article you reference Manish, Serese, I met recently at the Rise festival – now I doubt you’ll get this stateside, so it’s just for PB and the other Brits. I made a supermarket-girl group analogy.

En Vogue – Marks and Spencer Destiny’s Child – Tesco’s Rouge – The Co-op Serese – LIDL.

Oh dear. Don’t worry, I was polite to them – when people are trying to break the music biz, it’s always good for others to endlessly praise them making them, thus lulling them into a belief that they ARE “really really good” and SHOULD waste the money their parents put aside for uni, and SHOULD decide not to go to high school, and CAN be the next Destiny’s Child. Groan.

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By: Manish Vij http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/08/27/the_coming_of_t/comment-page-1/#comment-22680 Manish Vij Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:34:00 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2112#comment-22680 <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress">Trade dress</a>.</p> Trade dress.

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By: Punjabi Boy http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/08/27/the_coming_of_t/comment-page-1/#comment-22679 Punjabi Boy Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:30:16 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2112#comment-22679 <p>One thing I dont understand about all these indie bands is, why do they have to to dress so scruffy?</p> One thing I dont understand about all these indie bands is, why do they have to to dress so scruffy?

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