Little Miss Quotation Marks 2008

To the person who called my ignorance of my culture un 'cool,'

If anything Crystal Castles are HOT! They already derive their influence from an Atari chip, now they are clipping and rearranging parts from other artists' songs. Sound familiar? Of course!

Top shots Daft Punk are notorious for rebranding and resounding years-old tunes. There are some loops that you have to wonder if they were purchased for use, and if so, are Daft Punk the greatest showmen of all time who have been blinding their fans from the truth?

Note: There are some who epitomise Daft to the top of the dance and electronic industry. Others, like me, wonder what the F they are up to in the Pyramid, hooked to the mothership backstage?


Pablo Picasso similarised stealing another artist's work as the essence of great art; "bad artists copy, great artists steal." The rebranding of something that belongs to thought, the process of creation, and in sense: sight, sound, etc., to remove and remoralise the issue to the artist's conception, is the difference between modern creativity and art.

Legally, or as legal as the Creative Commons License gets, and especially with digital music, Crystal Castles should have contacted and made Lo-Bat aware and fully knowledgeable of intent. In this case a versus stature, "CC vs. Lo-Bat," would have been binding. Crystal Castles and their management have since replaced the title on their MySpace, but after THE INCIDENT.

Crystal Castles, Daft Punk, and numerous other 'artists' are playing music we, or I, want to hear. They are borrowing samples and influencing eachother in all forms of the industry. Therefore, I do not now how uncool of me it was that I did not know Crystal Castles, on two cases, reworked other artists' samples into their songs.

I'm too busy enjoying the music to care about the little things that have no attachment to my ears and muh brain!


And now even better music than Crystal Castles,

Kap Bambino - New Breath (Live)