Like a more aggressive answer to ’90s electro outfit Prodigy, Die Antwoord manage to get as far as they do on sheer attitude and energy alone. Like most of the tunes on Mount Ninji, “Gucci Coochie” is most engaging when you turn your brain off.
“She bounce around da club like a psycho little cartoon,” raps Yolandi-an unintended irony given that Die Antwoord are on the verge of turning into cartoons themselves. What does it mean that two women at Yolandi and Von Teese’s level of fame succumb to rap’s materialist-maneater trope in an intensifying gender-conscious climate? Or when Yolandi appeals to salacious father-daughter sex fantasies on “Daddy?” It's hard to say if it means something transgressive-or if it means anything at all-but by this point, it’s getting less and less credible to give Die Antwoord the benefit of the doubt. “Never!” The next song he guests on is titled “U Like Boobies?” Likewise, “Banana Brain” is pretty much a euphemism for “Dick Brain,” while modern burlesque icon Dita Von Teese and Die Antwoord frontwoman Yolandi take the lead on “Gucci Coochie,” a song that may as well have been titled “Expensive Pussy.” “Will I ever stop drawing penises?” Terror squeaks.
When child rapper Lil Tommy Terror guests on two back-to-back tunes early on, he doesn’t even make you laugh as much as your seventh-grade class clown once did.