Video: Donae’o, “Party Hard”
One thing we’ve always loved about Donae’o’s funky house hit is how understated and easily it conveys its sentiment. If an American artist, say Andrew WK for instance, made a song titled “Party Hard,” there would almost certainly be some ragingly testosteroney guitar riffage and Michael Bay explosion samples. Somehow partying hard this minimally seems cooler. The video mirrors that, house party skankers all calm and sexy and taking shots, partying hard in their minds but not acting like frat bags. There is the obligatory drunk-girl pillow fight towards the end (sigh), but it’s pretty PG. Also, we may have to make these “Party Hard” sweatshirts at a Crafternoon or something.
Freeload: Wale Likes Funky
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London is falling apart. A couple inches of snow have completely shut the city down, someone threw a shoe at the Chinese Prime Minister at Cambridge, Lily Allen is prancing around as Little Bo Peep and a red-blooded American named Wale is performing hostile takeovers of UK-indigenous funky house tracks on DJ Semtex’s show. Not that any of that is bad — it’s actually improving our day quite a bit — but please try to pull it together a little bit over there. Prancehall actually talked about both source tracks in his column, so pay attention to him if you want more of this kind of stuff. Meanwhile, in addition to the aforementioned funky massacres, Wale debuted his new single at a recent show in LA. Watch that video after the jump and expect Wale’s album in late spring.
Download: Wale, “Warrior Freestyle”
Download: Wale, “Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes”
