[kj] Strange "controversy" a-brewing: Prada runway show in Milan plays Death in June's music

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

About Death in June, FYI: They are "inspired" by the NSDAP (Nazi 
Party)'s brownshirts/S.A. unit, which was killed on June 30, 1933, I 
think it was. Hence the band's name, "Death in June." The S.A. was 
headed by Ernst Roehm, who, like DiJ singer Douglas P., was gay. The SA 
were killed by Hitler's SS and the SA were considered the "left-wing" of 
the Nazi Party. (Yeah, this is getting weird, ain't it? A Nazi 
left-wing? In any event, they were still Aryan supremacists.)

In any event, the SA were the brownshirts, yet DiJ's logo is the SS's 
death's head, the Totenkompf. The "band" (mostly Douglas P.) come on 
stage in Waffen-SS fatigues and often play kettle drums with people in 
Nazi military fatigues looking like they're about to invade Poland. 
Their albums have titles that flirt with the ideas of Nazism but never 
state it outright.

Example of an LP cover: 
http://bp3.blogger.com/_cvZRpnpzzaw/RndNbfTBsdI/AAAAAAAAAO8/h3F1c_mFXxQ/s1600-h/Le+Bianche.jpg

(An example is the song "Ku Ku Ku" -- gee, what does that song title 
remind you of; or the LP title _Rose Clouds of Holocaust_, among other 
things) Also, Death in June have been banned in Germany, Chicago, 
Portland, various other cities because their Nazi imagery was considered 
too inflammatory, etc. For a detailed listing of the places they are 
banned, and why:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_june#Controversy

In short, the odd thing, above all else, is the $5.2 billion US dollar 
fashion company, Prada, using their music at a fashion show.

-Oliver


folk devil wrote:

> Upon a google I discovered they are swaying around all gaunt to these 

> words:

>  

> Medusa's head, I've planted on a pillow

> Invoking the runes:

> Hagalaz, Isa, and Tiwaz

> and even Nauthiz just for good measure

> This gift is for you

> My foul-mouthed neighbor

> It's just the beginning of your ... cancer

> Those spikey thorns are deep within

> Piercing, slashing, not so slowly

> taking pleasure in devouring

> Out of my life

> Your misery shall be

> My southern existence

> My simple, easy victory

> Now the stars

> They are so plenty

> Amongst the Gums

> Your home dies empty

> You're deep in hell

> Your head on a platter

> You were a waste of space

> You didn't matter

> I'll be happy

> as happy as can be

> Your sacrifice, your nothingness

> My beautiful, silent liberty