In the latest issue of Grooves Magazine, there's an interview with Atari
Teenage Riot member Nic Endo, where she makes the statement:
"Music has to be a physical or emotional experience and not people having a
drink, looking at a white middle-class nerd with a Mac laptop."
It'd be interesting to see how people respond to this...
My opinion: In the interview, she claims to not label people, but that's
clearly what she's doing here with the term "nerd." Also, in order to
afford time to use or purchase the machines she uses for her albums, it's
quite obvious that she's at least middle-class or above. So, obviously her
credibility is not very high, nor does she seem to follow her ideals of not
labelling people. Obvious hypocrisy, much like her fellow Atari Teenage
Riot members. I won't get into the ideological errors of that group...
Finally, who's to say that a white middle class nerd with a laptop can't
make emotional and physical music? I definately think that some of the
laptop-based music I've heard in the past few years has been both physical
and/or emotional. The music-maker can't stop people from having a drink
while making music...it's beyond their control what the audience does...
I guess I'm just a bit angered by someone making blatantly false,
hypocritical remarks like that, especially someone who supposedly is from
the same "scene" or whatever. Blanket statements never ring as true.
Robert Stanton
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