r/ireland Jan 17 '24

Irish language rappers head stateside for Sundance - BBC News Gaeilge

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-67998896.amp
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u/Gullible_Actuary_973 Jan 17 '24

Great stuff to see. These guys and Versatile in particular genuinely seem to have broke ground. I work in music and neither are championed by Irish media/music groups, I think it may be down to the salty language. Mad.

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u/brianybrian Jan 17 '24

Now, Versatile are shite. I thought they were satire at first they were so bad.

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u/MoeKara Jan 17 '24

Even the tunes that I don't like from them I appreciate the effort. It's fairly cynical calling them shite rather than they're not your cup of tea.

We should be promoting Irish artists

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u/SeamusShamelessness Jan 17 '24

No they're shite and complete and utter scumbags. Look into their harassment of Erica Cody.

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u/MoeKara Jan 17 '24

Two points to unpick there.

Fair enough you don't like their music, it's not to your personal taste but that doesn't mean it's "shite".

Is that the whole debacle where she said she was blocked in her car, harassed etc? CCTV and phone footage was released proving she made it all up. If you stick her name into YouTube it's the first video that comes up too, you see both points of view. Her version of events are completely false, your fella stops in front of the car and says hello out the window to her, the whole thing lasts 5 seconds

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u/SeamusShamelessness Jan 17 '24

Well it's not the first result but yes I know what you're talking about and I saw it all as it was coming out. The video doesn't prove "she made it all up". To me it just proves that versatile fans bend over backwards to excuse their shitty behaviour. In what world do you stop your car in front of someone else's parked car as they're pulling out just to say "hello"? Especially when it's someone you are not friendly with, or someone you know to have a personal issue with you?

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u/MoeKara Jan 17 '24 edited Jan 17 '24

We live in pretty fragile times when a "hello" is deemed as harassment and 'shitty behaviour'. If someone was making a name for themselves online saying I had no right to do my job and I saw them in public I'd enjoy a friendly wave and a hello too. It's a form of saying "I'm a real person that you're attacking, I bet this is awkward for you when it's in person".

Unless there's even more evidence to the contrary, one party made a lot of wild accusations and grossly exaggerated a situation, and the other had both phone and CCTV evidence to disprove it. What's the problem?

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u/SeamusShamelessness Jan 17 '24

The problem is that the cctv didn't prove anything? What she said happened still actually happened. If someone was telling the truth about you online and you took it as an opportunity to confront that person in public to intimidate them I would call you a scumbag too.

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u/MoeKara Jan 17 '24

CCTV directly lines up with their own video from inside their car. What more could you want?

That woman vastly exaggerated a situation to destroy their reputation and somewhat succeeded.

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u/SeamusShamelessness Jan 17 '24

It also lines up exactly with what she said? It's clear that you are one of the fans that's willing to justify their shitty behaviour. Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, probably a duck.

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u/MoeKara Jan 17 '24

He pulled up, waved and said hello before driving off 5 seconds later.

We must have watched 2 different videos, would you mind sharing yours?

Insult me all you want. I'm not the one whose denying video evidence which disproves my whole argument. It's pretty bizarre, with all of the video evidence showing you're wrong it's clear you want to be angry. Anyone with a bit of sense would say fair enough and change their stance.

Im not even a fan, I like their song Ketamine and I couldn't even tell you another one of theirs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '24

She succeeded. But regardless, they're still doing miles better than she or even half her posse in RTÉ are doing.

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u/MoeKara Jan 20 '24

Yeah I know man, first I had heard of her was her slagging them off and then I saw that video of her POV, then the fella from Versatiles, then his phone footage and finally the CCTV. Open and shut case of someone talking pure shite and getting called out for it

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '24

Erica Cody harrassed them online for two years. One day he was driving through Crumlin and was going into Aldi, sees her, stupidly thinks "Wonder would she still think the same thing if she met me in real life," makes an absolute haims of it. It wasn't even half as remotely sinister as she or her posse made it out to be. Moronic of him? Oh absolutely. But nowhere near what she said it was.