Grown & Sexy: Getting down n dirty on the Bund

Ouch.

There's a whole helluva lot of bitterness here. Maybe someone didn't collect their expected returns on a midnight bottle of Moet.

How bout this: If you don't like it, don't go. Save your bile for something really reprehensible, warriors of the underground... Like the millionaire fair!

Gunpoint 132 - what's your idea of a good time besides closet f'ing on Craigslist? Spare us the needless shittalking, shithead - and go fuck yourself instead.

Panthea - keep up the good work.

What's more nauseating?: A) a gaggle of pretentious laowai jerkoffs who are not likely to be grown nor sexy, congregating bundside with their shangwhores to hear tired funksoul singalongs and take countless digiphotos of eachother or B) Shanghaiist pantheandering corny-ass advertorials for parties at De-La-Closing-down-soon?

OK, you got me, it was a rhetorical question. Please go back to preparing your lesson plans or filing your TPS reports. I'll find something way better to do this weekend...

Guest #8, Guest #10: You seem to conveniently overlook in your posts that Shanghai's DJ nights are lame like a motherfucker. Maybe in Europe DJ clubs are the fucking shit, I dunnow, as I don't understand how a scene develops around something that comes off so inane over here.

Either way, it's a bunch of Eurotrash and gold-digging Chinese women and expensive lower-shelf alcohol and shit music. It's marginally more interesting than staying at home and watching CCTV9, but that's about it.

Is Guest #10 actually Guest #9?

This cracks me up: "De la coast? I say de la crap!" I'm still stammering from this one. The way you took the bar's name, and then twisted it around in a sort of linguistic/insult smackdown was awesome. What about this one? "De la coast? I say de la crack!"

Wow. Points for wit right there. The way you play with language, Guest 9/10, is brilliant. You sure know how to fire up a linguistic smackdown! Did you think of those all by yourself?

This is even funnier: "Are you a writer? I mean, I know you *can* write (only an idiot could read the above and not see that), but do you do this full time?"

Only an idiot would read #9's comment and think he WAS a writer. "Should of been buried"? "Your welcome"? "Douche baggery"? Priceless.

I smell a troll from the Shanghai American School that got insulted by the original article and is making a feeble attempt at revenge. And failing miserably.

Shouldn't you be in class right now? Doesn't SAS offer remedial English in summer school?

Guest #9:

"De la coast? I say de la crap!" I'm still stammering from this one. The way you took the bar's name, and then twisted it around in a sort of linguistic/insult smackdown was awesome. What about this one? "De la coast? I say de la crack!"

And your bitty re-write of Panthea's piece? Priceless. I bet Panthea still hasn't picked up her drink that dropped to the floor when she read that one.

Are you a writer? I mean, I know you *can* write (only an idiot could read the above and not see that), but do you do this full time?

If not, I want to start a website that lets the city know what's really going on. We'll stay away from the Bund (can you say pretentious?), from the French Concession (an Imperial vestige, if you ask me), and Nanjing Xi Lu (one big affectation), and focus on the real China - unspoilt Gong fu xin cun.

Or, you could drop your astounding level of douche baggery and let it stand that two DJs will be playing great music (by any measure) at a good, if expensive, bar.

De la coast? I say de la crap! this article should of been buried in smartshanghai,

What this city's night life needs is sleazy club promoters who know how to pack places with silicon and blow, not young French interns, let's stick to the formula here people!

Allow me to re-write the above article for you Panthea,

De La Coast poaches C's, Logo's, and Pirates clientele for three weeks until realizing music nerds can't pay their own rent let alone space on Yan’an Dong Lu.



Your welcome,

If you want to reach me I’ll be getting blasted at the Shanghai American School Prom, those kids know how to get down!

#5, I couldn't agree with you more! The human perception of entertainment and pleasure is totally bizarre to say the least. This frenzy is further hyped up by despair, an unconscious realization that the environment is on the verge of total destruction and they better enjoy it as much as they humanly can. A truly tragically superficial culture!

Yes! Guest #5 is snarky but 100% on point. Awesome.

i'd personally have to go way BACK to go to higschool and throw out a bunch of diplomas as well. Attention grabbers and the bund night life sucks no matter how you spin it.

guest 4, this post was a sort of "invitation to flaming" between groups, but you don't have to be rude and insult people.while I like james Brown, the separation between creative DIY events and outsider conspicuous consumption exists for a reason. it's more than feeling better than the other: clustering of hideousness/ positive vibes can be discerned easily.

This attempt will remain an outlier and the separation will continue.of course you're free to go have a good time though.

Read about De la coast on their website and look at their interior design, and if you don't feel ripped off, maybe you don't speak Chinese anyway, and don't know China at all, so you're not in on the whole farce being on you.

Surely anything that pleases the French, Swiss, other Eurotrash, Chinese golddiggers and idiots of the city has to be a good thing?

Another notch of "I went there on Saturday" to brag to the office about on Monday lunch at Element Fresh?

I can almost hear the opening of wallets and legs and the giggling of cutesy-poos already.

"(we hate this word, too) ‘indie’ circuit"

-- Why do people get so bothered by terms like "indie" "alternative" "underground" etc.... What else are we supposed to call it? It's fine, it's too-the-point, it communicates what it is -- regardless if it's trite and mis-used on occasion.

"any musician/performer with a hint of grasroots indie/underground/avantgarde ambitions in shanghai is instantly discredited once associated with..."

-- oh spare me and go back to high school. Maybe that's why they're marketing this party for grown-ups? If someone wants to bring good music to the Bund, more power to them!

any musician/performer with a hint of grasroots indie/underground/avantgarde ambitions in shanghai is instantly discredited once associated with the disgusting profile of snobbish, golddigger, rip-off prices, sterilely affected sopfistication and elitism of bund nightflife.

Nothing scares me more in this city than the bars on The Bund.

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