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A Music Post: The Evolution of K'Naan's 'Wavin' Flag'

In hypem, music on 8 July 2010 tagged Coke, globalization, k'naan, mp3, music, World Cup with Comments Off

K’Naan is possibly the most global artist in the world today, thanks to the fact that Coke has used his song ‘Wavin’ Flag’ as their World Cup anthem and produced no less than twenty versions of the song, each with an artist aimed at targeting a different country or region. The fact that there’s twenty of these things out there, each enjoying success, intrigues me enough to hunt them all down. Get ready to feel a mixture of world unity and anger over how such a great song has been corrupted by a clear corporate message and confusion over whether or not that actually detracts from the song itself.

How Independent Music and the Internet Helped Transform a Nation

In best of, Canada, hypem, music, Olympics on 1 July 2010 tagged canada, canadian, cbc, hypem, joel plaskett, mp3, music, nationalism, Olympics, radio3, the weakerthans with 1 comment

It wasn’t the Olympics that made Canadians find their pride. It was just that the internet and a new crop of independent musicians has created a generation of Canadians that aren’t aware their supposed to have an inferiority complex. Get used to it.