2/20/2023 0 Comments Old school skate music![]() Nine years later the Brad Furman–directed “film,” “What Do You Mean?” in which pop idol Justin Bieber works a half-pipe, garnered more than 1 billion views. With his 2006 hit “Kick, Push,” originally written for a skate DVD, Lupe Fiasco aligned the skateboard-featuring music video with rap. ![]() Jan & Dean’s chart-making 1964 “Sidewalk Surfin’,” cowritten by the Beach Boys’s Brian Wilson, was an anomaly that predates the emergence of skate punk-hard, dark, loud-and MTV.Įven as the sport developed, and broadened its reach as skaters moved out of drained pools and parks, off of ramps, and onto streets, skateboarding retained a counterculture by-skaters, for-skaters appeal that resonated with indie acts like the Beastie Boys and Sonic Youth who featured skating in their music videos before Avril Lavigne “discovered” the appeal of the “Sk8er Boi” (a tradition followed by alt acts like Jason Schwartzman’s Coconut Records and Panda Bear). As the sport developed, so did its sound. Skateboarding, which grew out of surfing, has always been aligned with music. Video might have killed the radio star, but increasingly it is pushing skateboarding-an “outsider” sport, by design-into the mainstream. ![]()
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