#genklubi

käisime viljandi kultuuriakadeemia monoetendusi vaatamas.  pooled meeldisid ja pooled ei meeldinud. aga need, mis meeldisid, meeldisid kohe väga. õues oli meeletult külm, kuid sellegipoolest käisime mulle üle jõe limonaadi ja porgandipirukaid toomas. 

TOMM¥ €A$H

He's a new wonderchild of Estonian hip-hop and after seeing him perform at our national music awards on TV, my friends and I decided to go see him at our local hipsterclub here in Tartu, which sometimes hosts cool gigs. We figured that the night could turn out in two ways: 1) he is cool and everything is great, 2) he is so odd, that it's funny and everything is still great. Both ways, it would be 3 euros well spent. (Yes, 3 euros for a gig.)

We were all getting wound up on a few ciders/beers and the indietronic beats in the room that when Tommy took the stage, it was already a party. Hot and a bit sweaty, everybody getting into a "gangster for a day" vibe. 

I put all of my crowdpushing skills to work and ended up right in the middle, surrounded by people seemingly crazy about that odd-looking rapper on stage. The last time I went to Genklubi for a gig, it was Mimicry, and then the crowd was slightly exited. This time it was like somebody was throwing cash from the stage (yes, pun deifnitely intended) to the hungry-looking people below. Everybody was so eager for.. something. And he was giving it to them. 

There's something about him, which I can't really put my finger on. It's like everything about him is so weird, that it's ultimately cool. He has the voice of a bad russian wannabe viral video star. He looks like he's been shopping at the ugliest underground thrift stores with his Grimes-fringed girlfriend for as long as he can remember. He speaks English, despite being Estonian. It has so much potential to be awkward, but he makes it cool. Everything is so wrong, it's right. 

Come on, I like his music and it is WAY out of my comfort-playlist-zone. I've been listening to his songs on repeat the whole day and I don't know what's gone into me. I've never been (and hopefully never will be) the "bitches-money-yoloswag" kind of girl, but damn, he's so cool!

If you're interested in more, then https://soundcloud.com/iamtommycash