#smashproof

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyandK-bQOw)

11th March 2019.

Ariana Grande is still #1. We’ll flashback ten years to 2009 when the #1 was a homegrown hot, Smashproof’s ‘Brother’

It’s pretty cool that this song made it to #1. It doesn’t happen often for Kiwi bands, even in their home country so Smashproof did really well here. It’s also a great song with a good message and Smashproof cleverly brought in Gin Wigmore who has a great voice to do the chorus. No wonder it was a massive hit here - spending eleven consecutive weeks at the top of the charts, a record for a local band.

Neither Smashproof or Wigmore have ever reached the top of the chart again (in fact Smashproof don’t seem to have made any new music since 2009), but ‘Brother’ has cemented it’s place as a classic NZ song.

It’s particularly noteworthy for shedding light on the realities of living in South Auckland and specifically to a well publicised case where a white man murdered a Maori teenager who was tagging his garage and received only four years jail time (serving only two years).

“Take away a kid’s life just because he tagged. Damn.”

Sad to say not a lot of progress has been made since then despite Smashproof doing their best to shine a light on the issues.

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