newKidsontheBlackBlock

What do the spice girls and ossama have in common?
How do record companies invent musical groups for us to adore?
How do the police construct public enemies to be feared and dealt with?
Construction of an identity, or better yet, of an entity How strange is it when the same adolescents that consume pop groups have converted themselves into the material of a similar construct.
How funny that this construct has decided to exist and act.
It's interesting to melt these processes down and examine the whole political weight of the black block from a discographic point of view.
New Kids on the Black Block consider processes of generating an identity by the production of a full merchandising campaign. Embeded in this merchandising campaign is the debate regarding tactics and action, the discourse about violence with its shades of oportunity and oportunism.
In the same (funky, synchronised) move, the NKOTBB propose a change in tactic.
Where mainstream media marginalizes social movements and brings to the forefront teen pop groups, we play 'what if' and anticipate our cooption into the mainstream of coorporate entertainment, pretending we are nothing but another pop group and not a political subject of any real importance.
Thus where social movements, like those using black block tactics, are displaced from their position by mainstream media, we try and hitch a ride in the other direction, from margin to center.
We do this by wearing big pants, harmonizing and dancing in synch. Instead of bitching, fearful and indignant, about the media spin sorcerers, we've decided to play their game.
Doing so, we are also constructing a powerful decriminalizing tool. 'Are those those dangerous anarchists we're being warned about?

CALL 'EM WHAT YOU WANT!