Mr. Fingers – What about this love? Promo 12” 1992
Side A
- Kenlou Mix
- Gonve Mix
Side B
- Luv Dub
- Masters At Work Dub
- Instrumental
From just looking at the cover I’m already reconsidering this little experiment in exploring my wife’s record collection. This dude is wearing some kind of Miss Muffet looking kufi on his head and for some reason the beaded curtain he’s trying to call a necklace is swaying in the wind. He’s rocking some kind of black and white shirt thing that kind of looks like the house music version of those two tone shirts middle age white dudes wear when they go to Vegas to relive some pitiful ass version of their idea of Swingers. This just looks like it’s going to be some soulful house type shit right out the gate.
i mean, i get the gesture, but Serg knows better than I do that “rap fan sneering at house music” isn’t exactly breaking down gender barriers either. or rather, what i mean is, it does work both ways. this is a performance of the sort of snide dismissiveness that dudes regularly get away with when they aim it at women, whereas alltherecords is written in a faux-ethnographic super-naïve tone aimed at assuaging dudes.
i mean, i don’t know why I’m bothering to say so because I know Serg is too committed to kayfabe to own up to that (for which I admittedly have been pretty forgiving in his case over the years) (not like he cares).
on the bright side he’ll be showing off his wife’s collection so that’s cool.