01-03-2004, 07:00 AM
I do tend to agree with Spam to a certain degree that some of the music on their is cr$p but it has to be understood that Afrikaans music has been so repressed for years that it has to develop and bloom now. The Afrikaans community, for years considered Bles Bridges to be the epitome of musical genius and any more progressive music was frowned upon. It took people like Koos Kombuis and Johannes Kerkorrel to turn the Afrikaans music establishment on its head. Some of the lyrics are dreadful and some of them are genuinely funny but at the end of the day Afrikaans music is going through a revolution and is delivering some awesome talent - go listen to Karen Zoid, Valiant Swart, Koos Kombuis or Springcan for evidence of this. Purile lyrics were a part of the punk revolution and Afrikaans music is going through the same process.