This is MYMYMY’s first single from their upcoming untitled debut album. According to Conrad van Breda, one half of MYMYMY, all the tracks from the album tell a story, and “EK EN JY, DIKGAT” needs to be looked at in this context of a musical. “Actually more of a low budget trash opera,” he laughs.
When asked about his biting lyrics Conrad explained, “I worked briefly in an unnamed town in the Swartland and could never understand, after many visits to Spar, why the women were so well groomed and slim while their husbands obviously could not care much about their appearance. Do they sit at the same table at dinner? How does sex work?”
“I have found rap music offensive in the past because there is always a plus-sized man in a lot of clothes sitting around, while beautiful, slender and underdressed dames dance in the background,” Jana Oosthuizen, the other half of the duo, explains. “The lyrics of our song were written from these dames’ point of view. That’s sarcasm. “
The music video amplifies this sentiment, featuring an unnamed protagonist in drag who wanders aimlessly through contrasting landscapes, juxtaposed by the artists’ heads floating around like they’re straight outta a low-budget ’70s sci-fi flick.
