so whats with the whole vogue thing

[Capture pt]

seen like 5 or 6 tracks this month alone with vogue in the title or samples of someone saying vogue or Madonna or whatever, whys it suddenly the trendy word? the tunes are fire tho so its all good just wondering what the connection is u kno

[alex bk-bk]

night slugs been on the ballroom tip for years playing track by Mike Q and Vjuan Allure since Kingdom showed me them back in the day
i guess a lot of other people have got into it since then and rightly so cos theyre very good stripped down club traks
a little tune called Swims may have helped with the craze

[benq]

everyone just needs to watch the movie "paris is burning"

the whole vogue thing fits right in with the other little 1980s tip everyone's been on lately...namely all that acid house-inspired stuff.

late 80s seem to be getting dredged up a lot these days.

also: any time you hear words like "serve", "walk", "sickening", "realness", "cunty", "ball", and "gag" you are hearing direct influence from the Harlem ballroom (cf. gay/drag) scene that peaked in the 1980s. if you ever watch the show "RuPaul's Drag Race" (basically a drag queen reality tv competition) you will hear these repeated often and loudly.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

well i can tell you that..... i wanna see you vogue BITCH

[Raggles]

well i can tell you that..... i wanna see yo vogue BITCH

fixed

[joeki]

I had real trouble getting into it at first, now I'm all over it. Souljazz has that new compilation out as well.

[Soiree]

everyone just needs to watch the movie "paris is burning"

http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=26735
VOGUING AND THE HOUSE BALLROOM SCENE OF NEW YORK CITY 1976 - 1996
Soul Jazz Records

I just went crazy for all this shit, dancing with my hands in front my face and whatever.
Both volumes of the vinyl and the book... QUEEN

[garethom]

Because pitched down vocals saying things that sound like they could've been said in an upscale club in the 80s are the popular thing for the next 6 months b2b videos with cut up snippets of unrelated scenes cut from various VHS. Rinse and repeat.

[mrbeatnick]

really interesting, had no idea about any of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_culture

[sixs]

http://networkawesome.com/show/doc-pari ... ning-1990/

[shaan]

Because pitched down vocals saying things that sound like they could've been said in an upscale club in the 80s are the popular thing for the next 6 months b2b videos with cut up snippets of unrelated scenes cut from various VHS. Rinse and repeat.

:note:

feels like bmore all over again tbh

[rap_dot_com]

Xlr8r also wrote about this last april http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2011/04/s ... r-decades-

[jamesyo]

not really into it, a few tracks are good but for the most part i find it pretty repetitve and boring.

[Soiree]

Xlr8r also wrote about this last april http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2011/04/s ... r-decades-

this is a great article!

[Capture pt]

well then. myth busted.

[cakeplz]

everyones always referencing paris is burning when ballroom is brought up but that film is more about cultural identity than the actual ballroom movement

[+torment+]

first tune in the first clip St. Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Masters at Work dub.. deep.

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^^ battling to classic Todd Terry in the last clip.

[sixs]

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life affirming

[crutch]

I want to say I'm feeling all this but it would only be to prove how comfortable I am with my sexaulity. Tunes are good tho.

[incnic]

It's a fleeting hipster aneurysm IMO
Much like those fuvking unrelated random VHS edits stnuc make - which completely devalues anyone who was into that kind of thing and reuse of untapped VHS lols. Prob the same guy who came up the idea of using hipster girls on 'uk house bass' cousin of the originator of triangles and 'space scenes'