"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" by Vampire Weekend sums up Amherst College in 3 mins and 46 seconds.
The cultural appropriation, preppiness, New England vibes, sunny exterior, percociousness and lowkey (if slightly apologetic) love takes me back to my undergrad days.
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Exactly. The first time I listened to it was on my way to Val. Sooo many mixed feelings.
Agreed!
This is what wikipedia has to say (clearly I have read almost this same exact sentence before at Amherst):
In 2005, vocalist Ezra Koenig travelled through London en route to India and said that the trip got him "thinking a lot about colonialism and the aesthetic connections between preppy culture and the native cultures of places like Africa and India." This inspired Koenig to write a short story exploring those connections, and called it "Cape Cod Kwaasa Kwaasa", from which the song was named.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
sorry, but this is so true unfortunately.
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