The Kingpins choice of music is a crucial element in their work, highlighting the complex negotiations between the original and the copy. Where This Is My Remix Baby has a close resemblance to the archetypical R&B clip, Versus is a far more complex proposition, confusing and disrupting connections between layers of references, at once challenging the viewer to decode its many connections while delighting in the negation of interpretation through its own baroque hyperbole. In Versus, The Kingpins paid tribute to the original clip by lip-syncing the lyrics while performing in sets similar to those of the original - a pristine white studio for the rappers and a grungy, dark warehouse for the metal band. The melding of the tracks by Run DMC - one of the earliest musical examples of what would later be called “mash up” - was accompanied by an equally ground-breaking music video that featured both bands in a mock battle of styles. Versus significantly expanded on this approach - an elaborately staged video performance that recreated elements of the music clip for the seminal rap/metal crossover Walk This Way by Run DMC/Aerosmith. The video is an ambitious deconstruction of the visual language of generic music clips while artfully utilizing the gender/role confusion of women performing as men singing “get naked/put it in you/and do what you gotta do.” Mens Club explored similar territory in clips for heavy metal music. This Is My Remix Baby is styled as a music clip for an R&B band complete with a slowly cruising convertible, night time streets and the straight-to-camera address of the “singers”. The group adapted these approaches of live performance for their initial work in video. Performances such as Pussy Whipped and Evil Dick ran the gamut of drag mimicry from elaborate costuming to lip syncing a carefully chosen musical backing. The Kingpins early nightclub performances were drag parodies of the gestures of music genres such as heavy metal and hip hop. Their melding of these styles is densely layered, a humorously subversive pastiche of dominant codes that, turned into a raucous comedy, reveal their sources to be just as hysterical as the videos of The Kingpins. The four members of The Kingpins appropriate the styles of mainstream culture, drawing on the look of fashion, music, art and sport, blending their samples into performances, videos, photographs, installations and paintings. However, if they did not, then they received $100 for each pin knocked down.Angelica Mesiti b.1976, Técha Noble b.1977, Emma Price b.1975, Katie Price b.1978. If they knock them all down, they won a grand prize. They also competed in the "Big Bonus Bowling Round", where they tried to knock down six 6-foot tall pins with an oversized bowling ball. The team with the most points won the game and their point score was multiplied by ten to represent a dollar value. A spare earned the points originally bet and points were lost if the team failed to "mark". The game concluded with the "Magic Frame", where each team wagered any part of their score on the last frame. Otherwise, no points were scored in this event. each woman was given two chances to knock down a gold head pin. The husbands threw the first balls and their wives tried to knock down any leftover pins.īetween the first and second rounds, both teams player the "King Pins Golden Frame" for a bonus prize. After two questions and two chances at bowling, the players reversed positions.Ī second round was played for twenty points a question, and both members of the team bowled. The handicaps included making the women bowl in oversized clown shoes or having her throw the ball between her mates' spread-apart feet. If a woman did not pick up a strike, she was then presented with an obstacle to overcome during her next throw. Their wives then bowled, attempting to knock down as many pins as they could. The game began with the men answering a ten-point toss-up question. King Pins was a broadcast pilot that featured two husband and wife teams competing to answer general knowledge questions combined with bowling fun.
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