Major Lazer - Keep It Going Louder

Today I have not been well. As per usual, this was self inflicted pain, a hangover a tad unjust. So when I woke up I was alerted to this video. I have been pondering all day about this video as a result.

Major Lazer "Keep it Going Louder" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

First off, credit where due, Eric Wareheim has done a major (geddit?) job on this video, it's great. An onslaught of colour indeed, and seems heavily borrowed from Chris Cunningham's Windowlicker, but for a more LSD-addled audience. Very impressive.

But who-on-earth commissioned this bag of wank to be released in the first place? This track is indeed one of the worst of 2009 by a good country mile. It's painful, autotune, botched up wank. Served on a plate of steaming shit.

This was commented by Tekton on Hijack, and is a good summary, before I launch into a rather typical rant.

Major Lazer are 99% utter toss.

The refixes are way better then the album and as you say the crash of genres is awful. its taken the worst of kuduro/bmore/bashment etc and made a fuck ugly baby.

Theres some wicked stuff in those genres and this misses the lot.

Major Lazer seem like they are trying their utmost to wreck their beloved genres. Why Diplo is wasting his time trying to undo all of his service to the dance scene is beyond me, forcing out turgid shite hand in hand with Switch. The track made me feel so sick, it has been accountable for making my hangover 95% more painful for the next few hours as I struggle to ponder why someone would try and autotune Bashment.

I believe an email should be sent out to Adam & Joe to re-start Vinyl Justice. This is just unacceptable.