Saturday 19th March 2011

ODD FUTURE – “BLADE”

The future, so to speak, is standing on their feet (and May 9th is looming large), but it’s worth one final look back to the best to date.

Tyler is the face and brains, but on “Blade”, Earl is the voice. And what does he have to say? Through the shock horror joke/not joke of dubious gender politics and fiery rebellion, he spins the machismo of hip hop so not to claim “I’m tougher than you”, but rather “you can’t hurt me because I can’t feel a thing”. Like Eminem in 8 Mile, he’s the ultimate antiseptic youth, under the knife of this cold world.

And that cold world of Odd Future’s is Bret Easton Ellis’ LA, but charged on the vociferous cannibalism of web 2.0 instead of MTV’s drone. They’ll never disappear here.

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Odd Future – “Blade”

(Photo: Hello Outlaw)