Yo-Landi: You can’t try and make something you think someone else will like. You have to be the magnet that pulls people in. Ninja: They have this term: “Reach out.” We needed to “reach out.” What do you say to that? The worst, most horriblest thing you could say to me is that Die Antwoord has to “reach out.” You have to do the opposite. We thought they’d let us do what we wanted, but they kept pushing us to be more generic. The only thing they really want is to make more of what’s already popular. It’s gonna be on!” Then the truth is they move like a slow turtle. You think you sign with a major label and it’s gonna be bumpin’. These record companies are a certain kind of machine and we weren’t able to function in it. Yo-Landi: Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. Don’t be rude to the people who don’t get it. You gotta be a good guide to help people get away from dull experience. That’s a word we have in South Africa, “dwanky.” It’s like lame. They’ll just keep asking, “Is it real? Is it real?” That’s dwanky. There’s a sweet analogy for how musicians can think about this: People are unconscious and you have to use your art as a shock machine to wake them up.
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But you watch reality TV and you get a dull feeling in your balls. This American reporter was telling us that reality TV makes Americans care about if things are real or not. Ninja: The fucking God-given gift of artists is to create stuff from nothing. You can’t answer the question “Are you real?” If we’re anything, we’re documentary fiction.
Yo-Landi: It’s weird how people were always asking us, “Are you real? Are you joking?” That seems like something Americans care about a lot.