#22

I don’t in general, had heard of them but never got into them around the time that I listened to music similar to what they do. The cover itself isn’t great, and also it just feels a bit off, white men inserting themselves into a space fought for and won by these women. It’s not like a hate crime but the context behind it, women in hip hop have a hard time taken seriously, as do former sex workers which cardi b is, black women which megan the stallion is, and women owning their sexuality which they both are, and then some white men come in and cover it (and not well either, their censoring is…something. it just takes away from the point of the song, and also its shit) and it’s just like…why. I mean, if they did it becsuse it’s just fun for them then go off, but they should be open to the criticism, and not use the “we’re just having fun” caveat because its such a gross rebuttal to fair criticism

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#23

Something I really dislike is people doing ‘hilarious’ ironic acoustic covers of rap songs. Things like this (sorry to single out Nina Gordon on this because she’s far from the only one but it is a prime example)

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#24

“wet ass biffy” is so bad it’s almost good

bonus points for the trenchcoat

#25

While I think the cover is awful, and agree with every point you’ve made here, I’ve seen so much handwringing on social media about the original WAP (one Instagram story from someone not yet 30 who actually used the phrase ‘as a mother’ before calling for the song to be ‘banned’. She’s a teacher ffs) - I wonder if Biffy (being, as far as we know, decent guys) would say they were trying to show support for everything you’ve mentioned?

Yes clumsy, yes shit, but as someone who doesn’t really like WAP I find myself wanting to defend it when I see people saying it’s the most offensive thing in the world, and I wonder if their cover comes from a similar mindset.

#26

if so they’ve gone about it in a very backhanded way, basically reduced the entire thing to a joke about riffs and biffs

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#27

Quite like Eels spooky cover of Missy Elliott

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#28

Anyone who is offended by WAP needs to calm down and imo isn’t even worth considering, didn’t even think of people like that even being worth defending against, it’s 2020 if people are getting upset about women talking about sex they aren’t even worth 1min of consideration because they are idiots. But yeah this seems more like they’re taking the piss and thought everyone would be like “This is so funny Haha Legends” but now they seem all butthurt because people are laughing at them not with them

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#29

Tbh now the whole track is there its slightly less cringe worthy. Something about the bit @kermitwormit shared yesterday was particularly bad, but in context it brings it up like… Half a point?

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#30

Would be interested in reading this tbh. Which thread was it?

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#32

image

Who is Biffy Clyro wife?

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#33

Couldn’t agree with your points any more.

Forgive me if this is not my point to make but it made me think about whatever you think of the original (it slaps) it’s really awesome seeing a pop/rap song with a lot of reach by two black women in that space just completely proudly owning their sexuality for all to see. It’s something I’ve observed many male musicians do all the time or alternatively often in white female pop stars back in the day dancing around the subject and alluding to it in order to appear like an appealing sexual object for the male gaze, which almost always was an image created by a man to sell more records without batting an eyelid at cynically sexualising these young women regardless of how problematic that is.

Thankfully that seems to have largely moved on and fortunately some come out of this the other end with their dignity in tact but look how much that kind of thing almost destroyed the likes of Britney or Ke$ha.

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