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■ Bay Area hip-hop duo
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label debut, ‘Blazing Arrow’
Blackalicious ‘Blazing Arrow’
★★★★☆
By Alix Kerl
Oregon Daily Emerald
Dodge this blazing arrow, and
make way for Blackalicious’ new
album.
Blackalicious is one of the most
talented hip-hop groups in exis
tence, and “Blazing Arrow,” their
new album, shows off this talent
throughout its 17 tracks. The Bay
Area duo’s newest album is not
only their major label debut, but it
is also a successful showing of
their talent and their willingness
to experiment.
Blackalicious is a result of the
juxtaposition of lyricist Gift of Gab
and DJ/producer Chief X-Cel. The
rhymes on “Blazing Arrow” are
smooth and electrifying, and the
beats are impressive.
In true hip-hop style, the group
gets help from everyone and their
momma. The group includes Quan
tum Posse, Dilated Peoples' Rakaa
and Babu, and Jurassic 5’s Cut
Chemist and Chali 2NA. Rockers
Ben Harper and Rage Against the
Machine’s Zach de la Rocha also
contribute to the album. Several
tracks are also laid down by DJ
Shadow and Saul Williams, and
Lyrics Born provide lyrical help on
“Release part 1, 2, & 3.”
“Release” is a homage to the
Turn to Biackalicious, page 9
Adam Amato Emerald
Senior Holly Magner, left, and junior Ledena Mattox duke it out ‘Star Wars’ style. ‘I had a Princess Leia action figure, and it was my
favorite toy ever,’ Magner said. She said her brother later decapitated the toy with a butter knife.
Analysis
continued from page 7
Sobstyl, who is currently study
ing the relationships between sci
ence fiction and feminist science,
believes that the science fiction
genre is targeted at young men.
“In some ways, ‘Star Wars’ is re
ally an elaborate and expensive
commercial for video games,”
Sobstyl said.
She believes that “Star Wars” is
constructed in a way that appeals
to males rather than females, with
its constant references to toys,
gadgetry and video games, which
have typically been a male do
main. Sobstyl argues that this type
of masculinity is not inherent, but
a social construction.
Emerald City Comics manager
Stuart Bracker thinks the movies’
appeal is simpler tl^pn that. He does
not think the series is targeted at
males. Rather, he said the films fol
low the formula of universal myth
stories that traditionally focus on
the heroics of males.
“‘Star Wars’ is inherently for chil
dren, ” Bracker said. “It’s not really
targeted at anyone, although the
new movies are targeted at ‘Star
Wars’ fans.”
Bracker said he knows both men
and women who are fans of the
movies, but he added that men are
drawn to the comics, while women
tend to be more interested in the
books. There are hundreds of “Star
Wars” books that detail a world
richer than the movies and include
a variety of different characters,
Bracker said.
One of these characters is Mara
Jade , a former assassin working for
the evil Emperor Palpatine who
ends up married to Luke Skywalker
. She is a tough woman and a fa
vorite of fans, but she never appears
in the movies, Bracker said.
“The books have very strong
women. The movies don’t,” Eu
gene resident Rachel Turpin said.
While Turpin is a fan of both the
“Star Wars” novels and the old
movies, she refuses to see either
“The Phantom Menace” or “At
tack of the Clones.”
“The new movies don’t have the
same zip, but I love the books — the
books are great,” she said.
Bracker said that in the movies,
both Leia and Amidala are good role
models in their own ways. Anakin
Skywalker’s mother is another char
acter in the two newer movies, but
both Bracker and Turpin agreed that
she was too weak to be a good fe
male role model.
“Princess Leia got to be a strong
role model: a diplomat and a fight
er,” Bracker said. “She even got to
strangle Jabba the Hutt (in ‘Return
of the Jedi’) in the end, even if she
was wearing skimpy clothes. And
she was the one who found the way
out of the trash compactor (in the
original ‘Star Wars’).”
Bracker added that Amidala had
to have been strong to be elected
queen by her people at age 14, and
sources have hinted that Amidala
has a stronger role as a warrior in
“Attack of the Clones.”
“She had political savvy,”
Bracker said.
Sobstyl now prefers Japanese
anime over “Star Wars” as her sci
ence fiction of choice because it is
more gender-friendly and more
concerned with the environment,
she said.
Anime’s physical portrayal of
women is still stereotypical, but
“they have female protagonists
whose femininity is important to
the story — rather that accidental,”
she said.
Bracker concedes that Leia is
portrayed as a bit of a sex object.
But, he added, “Han Solo is also
a sex object.”
E-mail reporter AlixKerl
at alixkerl@dailyemerald.com.