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Ruin The Friendship
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To encounter a work that carries the kind of memorable, lingering title that stays with you long after you first encounter it, to hold space for a creation that emerges from the rich, sprawling tapestry of South Africa’s pop sphere, is to lean into the way that pop as a form can hold unspoken nuances that resonate across boundaries even as they root themselves firmly in the place that birthed them. Ruin The Friendship exists within that lineage, a pop sound that draws from the foundational currents that have shaped South African pop’s decades-long global footprint, even as it carves its own space within the continuum of work that carries the specificity of its origin while speaking to the wide range of human experiences that pop as a global form has long centered, without ever leaning into generic tropes that would strip it of its rootedness in the context that shaped its creation.
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