The debate on the Xhosa Traditional
Attire is interesting.
Traditionally nothing was worn just because it looked nice. Colours, fabric, beadwork or even the length of a skirt and whether shoulders were covered all carried meaning. Clan. Status.
Whether you’d been initiated, married, or were in mourning. Red ochre wasn’t a colour choice, it was identity and even resistance. A makoti’s dress wasn’t a style, it was respect made visible.
So the questioning isn’t hate or policing fun. It’s people watching a whole language get flattened into aesthetics, and knowing that once the meaning goes it rarely comes back.
We can wear what we want, that’s our right. Let’s just know what we’re carrying before remixing it.
every time i get hurt i decide to change and become a more distant person, but suddenly i go back being talkative and kind as if nothing had happened. and that basically sums up the kind of person i am
I’m convinced when you rekindle a relationship with someone (friend, family, ex, etc), something will always resurface to show you why you should have left it burned and dried up.
If you don’t get #APop. Listen to these three and you’ll understand where our baby girl was going with this album.
THIS is APop. This is the music she grew up with.
So much of A✷Pop is influenced by the late 2000s & the 2010s era of south african music. She really meant it when she said she reconnected with her inner child🙂↕️
did it ever occur to you guys that the neon aesthetic looked (sounded) different in different parts of the world? we were listening to liquideep wearing neon from jayjays and that’s EXACTLY what the album sounds like tf 😭