Santogold Is A Devious Plot

White people like Santogold. She’s almost the incarnation of an artist that Stuff-White-People-Like- White People must like. Let’s go over the basics.  She went to Wesleyan, home of artistic minded white people and the breeding ground of hipster extraordinaries MGMT. Her music is a combination of 80s pop that White People “ironically” like, world-beat-y international hip hop a la MIA, dense dance-y MGMT stuff, new wave, the Pixies, reggae, Bloc Party style dance rock and R&B. Did I mention that she’s black, lives in Brooklyn and wears chunky gold jewelry?

Here’s her single, L.E.S. Artistes