1/25/2024 0 Comments King pins band![]() Where This Is My Remix Baby has a close resemblance to the archetypical R&B clip, Versus is a far more complex proposition, confusing and disrupting connections between layers of references, at once challenging the viewer to decode its many connections while delighting in the negation of interpretation through its own baroque hyperbole. In Versus, The Kingpins paid tribute to the original clip by lip-syncing the lyrics while performing in sets similar to those of the original - a pristine white studio for the rappers and a grungy, dark warehouse for the metal band. The melding of the tracks by Run DMC - one of the earliest musical examples of what would later be called “mash up” - was accompanied by an equally ground-breaking music video that featured both bands in a mock battle of styles. Versus significantly expanded on this approach - an elaborately staged video performance that recreated elements of the music clip for the seminal rap/metal crossover Walk This Way by Run DMC/Aerosmith. The video is an ambitious deconstruction of the visual language of generic music clips while artfully utilizing the gender/role confusion of women performing as men singing “get naked/put it in you/and do what you gotta do.” Mens Club explored similar territory in clips for heavy metal music. ![]() This Is My Remix Baby is styled as a music clip for an R&B band complete with a slowly cruising convertible, night time streets and the straight-to-camera address of the “singers”. The group adapted these approaches of live performance for their initial work in video. Performances such as Pussy Whipped and Evil Dick ran the gamut of drag mimicry from elaborate costuming to lip syncing a carefully chosen musical backing. The Kingpins early nightclub performances were drag parodies of the gestures of music genres such as heavy metal and hip hop. Their melding of these styles is densely layered, a humorously subversive pastiche of dominant codes that, turned into a raucous comedy, reveal their sources to be just as hysterical as the videos of The Kingpins. The four members of The Kingpins appropriate the styles of mainstream culture, drawing on the look of fashion, music, art and sport, blending their samples into performances, videos, photographs, installations and paintings. Angelica Mesiti b.1976, Técha Noble b.1977, Emma Price b.1975, Katie Price b.1978.
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