jj – “Let Them” Music Video

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Swedish duo jj delivered one of the best musical holiday gifts you could dream of: a free mixtape featuring left-and-right sampling of hits from Kanye’s new material to Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite.” The video for first single “Let Them” has sweet-voiced singer Elin Kastlander in a pulpit preaching foulmouthed holier-than-thou hip-hop lyrics (“haters gonna hate… they ain’t gonna quit,” she croons) to an audience of one –- the other half of jj, Joakim Benon. What’s stunning about the song and video is the constant piling up of contradictions – Kastlander’s pure, sugar-sweet voice and her genre-atypical lyrics are a stark right angle against the video’s crisp church imagery. Check it out.

DOWNLOAD: jj – “Let Then”

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n December 28, 2010 at 1:22 pm

Isn’t this one called Kill Them on the mixtape?

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al December 28, 2010 at 1:30 pm

it uses the same vocals but they’re different

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l December 29, 2010 at 10:06 am

Yes it should be Kill Them, not Let Them or Let Then…

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musicocentric January 1, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Actually both “Kill Them” and “Let Them” are correct. I was about to change it on my blog because I was confused as well, but it appears that the single was first released as “Let Them” and then its name was changed to “Kill Them” for the mixtape. Regardless, it’s a great song, I just love it!

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