{"id":238,"date":"2004-01-02T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T23:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2004-01-02T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T23:19:16","slug":"me-and-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Me and My Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000AQS48\/dhalgrenstevensh\"><em>Me and My Brother<\/em><\/a>, by the Ying Yang Twins, is nothing but stupid (stoopid?) party music, heavily misogynistic and relentless in its praise of getting fucked up, wearing its ghetto &#8220;authenticity&#8221; on its sleeve (not the least through endless repetitions of the n-word), but probably appealing mostly to frat boys. Still, I can&#8217;t help myself: I basically ignore the words, but I find the beats infectious. The Twins&#8217; production is at the opposite extreme from Timbaland&#8217;s: maximalist instead of minimalist, hitting you over the head instead of subtly insinuating, putting the listener (well, me, at least) in a hysterical state of sensori-motor overload. (And I really do mean that &#8220;motor&#8221; part: listening to this album on headphones, from my iPod, while sitting on the bus, I can&#8217;t exactly dance, but I feel that twitching all through my nervous system, from my ears down to my toes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000AQS48\/dhalgrenstevensh\"><em>Me and My Brother<\/em><\/a>, by the Ying Yang Twins, is nothing but stupid (stoopid?) party music, heavily misogynistic and relentless in its praise of getting fucked up, wearing its ghetto &#8220;authenticity&#8221; on its sleeve (not the least through endless repetitions of the n-word), but probably appealing mostly to frat boys. Still, I can&#8217;t help myself: I basically ignore the words, but I find the beats infectious. The Twins&#8217; production is at the opposite extreme from Timbaland&#8217;s: maximalist instead of minimalist, hitting you over the head instead of subtly insinuating, putting the listener (well, me, at least) in a hysterical state of sensori-motor overload. (And I really do mean that &#8220;motor&#8221; part: listening to this album on headphones, from my iPod, while sitting on the bus, I can&#8217;t exactly dance, but I feel that twitching all through my nervous system, from my ears down to my toes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}