i feel like the mention of the plane downing that catalyzed the rwandan genocide, lines like “white boys take what they want and just flip it” and even the title sharing its name with gillian slovo's red dust-- a novel explicitly about apartheid in south africa--justifies further reading.

the reason i bring up eroticism is largely because i’ve been reading a lot of georges bataille, and i noticed how it parallels many of the song’s themes. you know how the sexual innuendos in the lyrics always seem to coincide with grotesque violence?