South African - Musician | September 26, 1974 -
With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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Don't come to wild shows if you're just going to talk to your friend about whose shoes you're wearing.
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