Pro/Con: Snarky Puppy
27 Jan
I must admit I have never heard anything from Denton jazz act Snarky Puppy. In fact, until today the much loved/loathed band has existed solely to me as nothing more than a joke used amongst various people in Denton when referring to something that’s kind of terrible. So, wondering if we’re all just a bit too jaded, I decided to sit down and give the music a shot. What follows is a pro/con take on the band.
Pro:
Hey they’re popular enough with certain media outlets that they managed, on more than one occasion, to grace the stage of one of the better venues in the area.
Con:
There’s a reason none of the hyped bands in a town which features a prominent music school barely have anything resembling jazz in their repertoire, and that’s because, let’s be honest, jazz has been dead for a good 30 + years. So when a group of white boys from Texas decide they’re going to revive the genre, the results are pretty much what you’d expect–terrible. Not like “I stubbed my toe, and now it’s sorta bleeding” terrible, but “Glenn Beck just lead a coup of the government, and now if the pigment of the back of your neck is a shade lighter than red you’re screwed” terrible.
Pro:
They do have one pretty amazing drummer, who also works with Ms. Badu.
Con:
Jesus Fucking Christ, what the hell were you people thinking with those fucking muderous keys? It’s like they decided “Fuck using Slim Whitman to take out the Martians, let’s synth key’em to death.”
Pro:
They have the courage to bill themselves as “dance music”. Seriously that takes some balls.
Con:
The only people dancing are over 40, drive Toyota’s and are very, very… um … pale.
Verdict: Yeah, that joke is still going to be used.
Stay tuned for the next installment of Pro/Con when we take a look at white people burritos, and the bands that love’em.