Hi, my name is farbenwut. I hate music, but listen to it everyday.
"You are an Instagirl. You live in an Instaworld."
This could be Social Media Critic, if it were not said by Social Media itself.
To be exact, this is from the youtubers "ApeCrime".
They deleted all of their channel a few weeks ago, to promote their album "Exit" and their single "Zombie".
Today I‘m gonna take a closer look at "Zombie".
There have been some discussions recently about community and marketing, but that‘s not what Iwant to talk about.
If you‘re interested in this topic, watch the video by "Ultralativ".
Here, it‘s all about the music. Let‘s take a look at "Zombie" by ApeCrime.
The track opens with a kind of long Sequence, in which Jan-Christoph Meyer sings.
Even if it‘s rap. But the intro is very long, around 1 minute and 15 seconds.
I have to say, I did never really know who is who. ApeCrime to me was just two skinny guys and the small round guy.
I looked up the names, so I can properly talk about them.
I actually like the vocals, which I did not expect.
Of course, there is a lot of mastering behind the vocals.
But it‘s easy to listen to. It actually got stuck in my head.
What I really like about the intro is the calm start. There‘s a single dynamic camera sequence while the intro plays.
There‘s the close on the faces and then the camera slowly backs up.
This is a metaphor for the text, where they mean the people slowly back up from real life.
Really nice. The intro is the highlight of the entire track. There‘s no real reason to watch more, if you‘re not interested.
Let‘s look at Cengiz‘ Part. I can‘t really tell if he is good, because I have no connection to rap.
But of course I have an opinion. The lyrics are …ok.
I‘m kind of missing the chopped flow.
ApeCrime‘s musical role model is US-Trap. There is the long 808-kick and the sub-basses. Kind of like Moneyboy, who started this genre in Germany.
But I‘m really missing the chopped vocals. Listen to Gloomy Boyz if you don‘t know what I‘m talking about.
For Cengiz, I also expected a heavier voice. Kind of smoky.
Maybe you could have used some more FX on Cengiz‘ voice. Let‘s take a closer look at the lyrics.
Now this is Andre Schiebler‘s Part. His flow is a liitle bit weaker than Cengiz‘.
Lyrically, it doesn‘t matter what part of the song you look at.
The whole track is biased against "Smombies" - Smartphone Zombies. People who always look at their phone.
In this situation, we are talking about Smombies, who want to be as famous as ApeCrime.
What a shame, when the community is to young to understand that they are getting insulted.
Just search Twitter for the ApeCrime Hashtags for more information.
It‘s the "Dat-Adam-Dilemma": There is musical capability (for Dat Adam a lot of capability).
But the core-fanbase is underage girls, and no one wants to be fan of a band whose fans are underage girls.
Same as not wanting to be a Justin Bieber fan, because other people would think you‘re girly.
In the end, "Zombie" by ApeCrime is a track, which exceeds my expectations.
I did not think it would sound any good. If you think about their old work, let‘s hope they keep up their good work.
If they continue making music on this level, they even could be famous for being musicians.
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