Internet is Culture’s Playground it’s the Best.Stay Posi. (Compare below.) But while that early Twitter comment of his could’ve been read as showing offense, later posts prove he’s not mad. He’s also a video artist, and his 2010 “123” clip has been held up as an example of the kind of visuals that both Banks and Riri are borrowing from. THE LONGER WE’RE ONLINE THE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE ARTISTS ARE TO THE RICH POACHING OUR CULTURE AND IDEAS AS WELL IDEALS USED AS MARKETING PLOYSĪrticles by BuzzFeed and even VH1 have focused on a tonally ambiguous quote from Jerome LOL of the pretty freaking awesome LOL Boys production crew.
HOW MUCH DID AZAELIA BANKS GET ON BUDGET TO MAKE THE VIDEO FOR ATLANTIS? HOW MUCH DID SNL PAY RIHANNA TO ACT LIKE GRIMES ON A GREEN SCREEN? JUST REALIZED I’VE BEEN CRINGING FOR THE PAST 15mins (that musta been azaeliabanks 15 mins of fame glad that’s over) RELEASE GUYS WE CHANGED POP CULTURE/NOW PERFORMERS LIKE rihanna R SINGING ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT/ LOVE HENCE SHIFTING MASS CONSCIOUSNESS W OUR IMAGERY The seapunk story has two chapters so far: the Chicago Reader piece declaring the movement, and the Times article in which founder Zombelle called Lady Gaga out for biting.Įnter the third - or perhaps chapter 2.5 - in which Zombelle and other probably influential self-identifying style icons rise up against a twin assault on their proprietary rights to cheaply rendered goopy imagery by: A) pop star Rihanna, who went buckwild with the 3-D on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, and B) SPIN cover star Azealia Banks, whose brand new “Atlantis” video is a dolphin-lover’s wet dream, um, so to speak. If your peer group is a geographically disperse group of people who bond over a niche taste via publicly viewable online forums, well, you should understand this better than most.īut the progenitors of the seapunk aesthetic style - all yin-yangs, aquatic imagery, and 3-D renderings cribbed from ’90s fashion and early web memes - appear for all the world to be deathly slighted anytime the mainstream jacks their flipper-fueled swagger. As anyone who’s ever had a great idea knows, the good and the bad of the thing is that as the idea spreads - even within a small set of friends - it becomes increasingly difficult to assert ownership over the concept or control how it’s used.