Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Even Worse Than The Ubiquitous Hip Hop Prop... AKA Yuck Barf

This is totally not even relevant aka irrelevant, but this new form of irony, in terms of fashion combined with music, is just too much - I've been seeing this trend around NYC for the past year and it's really starting to annoy me - like a lot. And could their name be anymore generic? RETRO KIDZ?? It's not even clever, funny, typical or whatever. It's all dumb - they're dumb, their sound is dumb, they dress dumb, their name is dumb. I hope they never get a record deal, especially based on the idea of how they scour eBay for "retro, rare, hard to find, one of a kind, indie, hipster" clothes that their parents probably didn't even wear. Whatever.

Retro Kids seen above surrounding Fab 5 Freddie


Listen and look for yourselves... I dare you to see how long you can look at their page - Retro Kidz

Retro Kidz are trying like hell to be the new forms of Kool Moe Dee, Bobby Brown circa New Edition, Fresh Prince, Fab 5 Freddy, Spike Lee's *Do The Right Thing*, etc., blah blah you get the point, I know, it's fucking lame.

*Update, I just was told by someone that one of the kids nicknames in the group is "Do The Right Thing" and also goes by Mookie, which ironically is the name of Spike Lee's character in the same movie. AHHHHHH....

Always held the thought about fashion is that you need to be one step ahead or four steps behind, but this crap is just boring and maybe it's my fault for even shedding light on them. We think "hipsters" are bad, wait til this trend catches on across the world again. Hopefully it doesn't.

2 comments:

fauxbrizio said...

holy fucking sack of shit douche!

no stress jess said...

I saw a female Retro Kid wannabe walking around Echo Park, and the two clueless gay men in my car exclaimed, "Oh look, it's a tranny." Retro Kids: So dumb and so boring.