8/17/2023 0 Comments Biff whiff rick rubin![]() ![]() The Severed Alliance:Blair & Brown:The New Labour.TADS #44:Woolwich to Waterloo (or Docklands Shite.Vacant Space:Mark Rothko the PACE Gallery.Here's Where The Storey Ends:The Tower.Citation Needed:A Journey Into the Wonderful World.Walking With Xenojellies:Anicka Yi Tate Modern.Landscapes (and Cornflakes) with the Fall of Icaru.Painted Love:Mixing It Up the Hayward Gallery.Free Glee!?!:- Joy the Wellcome Collection.Dave gets to see just how shit it is but yet his love for making music, as well as that for his friends and family, is so strong there's never a single moment you doubt he'll shine through. In The League of Gentlemen, deluded former glam rocker Les McQueen would often opine, after being let down by the other members of Creme Brulee once again, that "it's a shit business". Dave can be an idiot but his heart is always in the right place and you find yourself rooting for him even when he's being a bit of an arse. But none of these things upset the flow of either the series Dave or the incredible, and individual, flow of his raps. Kelly, and cancel culture feel just that. A story about Mike signing prankster duo The Stone Twins as new clients (and GaTa's bete noires) seems to just peter out, the first episode in which Dave, GaTa, and Mike visit South Korea to make a video with K-pop star CL seems designed purely to sell the series to Eastern markets (though the song 'I Did A Shit In Korea' did make me chuckle), and the perfunctory mentions of BLM, #metoo, the climate crisis, R. Some come off better than others but all enter into Dave's world in the correct spirit. There's good use of Miriam Makeba's Pata Pata and It's My House by Diana Ross and there are guest appearances from, as well as Doja Cat and Abdul-Jabbar, Lil Nas X, Rae Sremmurd, J Balvin, Kendall Jenner, Lil Yachty, and Desiigner. The series really hits its stride in the final few episodes which see Dave hallucinating in Rick Rubin's flotation tank and meeting a character actor called Biff Wiff ("look me up on IMDb, I'm a real guy"). They fall silent as it plays until, of course, pathos is instantly turned to bathos with one of Dave's trademark inappropriate, and self-defensive, attempts at self-deprecation. Most moving of all is when Dave finally plays Mike the surprisingly tender, but still rude - of course, song he's written about his break-up with Ally. Some regarding mental health issues and some about Dave and Emma (Christine Ko is, again, brilliant) and their long history of friendship. But it's not all rude jokes and gross set pieces about Dave's general hopelessness as an adult (he can't blow up balloons and he gets his mum to cut his sandwiches into triangles for him). As is Doja Cat's own sexting boast of having a pussy so 'fat' it could host a wedding. ![]() Which he blames on jetlag! It's crude but it's effectively hilarious. ![]()
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