I hope you’ve missed this two-parted interview with Tiga. Because then you can watch it below! ^^
It’s always nice to see artists loosen up and get a little freaky. Humour is always understated in the music business and Tiga pulls it off elegantly and with style and class in this semi-serious interview. It confirms that he’s absolutely not as dumb as his music sometimes could be interpreted as (Mind Dimension e.g.). But in a way he’s appealing to the relative smartness of his underground/indie/alternative fans by keeping this shell of irony, rather than his relatively many mainstream fans by being informative. Still he’s not as intelligent as to get that going full on for semi-irony and tongue-in-the-cheek double-sided answers in this video is pushing him further down a dead end alley in which irony and sarcasm becomes unoriginal and hollowed out.
In a way, I guess you could see Tiga as a drug. His music and his artistic persona (a persona that is surprisingly thin on content and unfortunately builds up about 50% of his music) are good preparations for an escape trip out of everyday-life and even a spaced out trip into bass-heavy psychedelia and dancefloor otherworld-ness. It makes you feel good at the moment. But just like drugs it doesn’t exactly make you feel better on a deeper level. But unlike drugs I don’t have to deal with abstinence issues. Because I find absolutely no real content in Tiga’s music at all. I can’t find a handle to grip, they’re all greasy with irony and I can’t find something to work with because it just slips away in a glossy dance/rave glamour mist. I listened through Ciao! one time this morning and boy was it hard to grip. It was repetitive and an incredibly shallow electropop/nu rave crossover. Hopefully I will have a review up soon.
This man has created a plastic doll that Alts love to snuggle but myself I see through the shell and find nothing. Tiga has miserably failed in showing any ounce of sincerity in or distance to his musical work. He says he’s self-centered in the interview. Well, he sure has a lot to prove before I can see him as any sort of open-minded, intelligent and complex persona in music. This interview does not improve my impression of Tiga as an artist but they do show that he has got a sense of ironic humour - but still there’s more to humour than irony.
You thought that was “semi-serious” or even an “interview”? You missed the joke, bud.
Unfortunately I agree with Haha to an extent.
Briefly reading this small piece of text above it’s more than obvious that it is written by a North American person or someone who has similar cultural influences (that can be unfortunately from any country) … far far away from the modern music reality of the 00’s he can’t even get the kind of sound that “Ciao!” represents…let alone the iconoclastic video of Tiga and the type of irony in there
and yes,,,you don’t name that an interview dude! it’s an artistic video of….some taste:)