DO WE LOVE OR FIGHT THE BOURGEOIS?
I think the most interesting of all is that YHCHI goes about reeling in readers of all backgrounds to listen and agree with what they are saying by building up to their point slowly. The love the narrator talks about shifts from generic love to sexual love--by the halfway point YHCHI has already mentioned the Kama Sutra. If YHCHI had immediately jumped into sex it is very likely they would have deterred many readers from further reading the poem and agreeing with the points they make. Because they started off with generic love, YHCHI had a good chance of roping in readers with vague statements almost everyone can agree on and then shifting to more specific, racy examples such as sex and the Kama Sutra.
YHCHI says "STARK NAKED OR STARK CLOTHED IN YOUR CAR CAUGHT IN A TRAFFIC JAM", referring how in every sense the struggle continues, whether sexual in nature or not. This is another shift they use to go from a topic they got the reader to agree on (the struggle for love continues) to shift into his new topic--the struggle for equality. This shift is successful only because YHCHI gets nonsensical expressing sex and sexual endeavors they thin the reader should pursue and comes across as a drunk ramble. Because YHCHI started off with vague points everyone can agree on (the struggle continues), they became valid in the eyes of the reader but now the nonsense suddenly makes the reader wonder about the validity of the author and the points they are making. Since they immediately flip back to a vague, agreeable point (the struggle for equality continues) the reader is more open in accepting this over the previous raging of the author.
Halfway through the poem there is a big shift. At this point the work goes from around a sentence per frame to only one word per. The way the reader is able to read this is through the frames flipping rapid fire across the screen to create each sentence. This form is odd but forces the reader to focus solely on the video-- if they look away for even a second they will miss words. The poem now comes across more frantically and urgently than before.
The author continues talking about love but frequently flips back and forth between that and fighting the upper class. YHCHI initially transitions into this by saying "...MAYBE NOT FOR THEM! BUT FOR EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPT THE SNOBS!...AND FOR BUSINESS MEN WHO HAVE CHAUFFERS!...BECAUSE THEIR CARS ARE BLACK! AND POLISHED! WHERE AS THEY SHOULD POLISH OFF WOMEN!". This whole segment is aimed at people who do not use their wealth and power properly (according to YHCHI). YHCHI believes all that is done should be done for love--anyone who does not pursue love and passion the same way is undeserving. Another interesting statement by the author is "CAN'T THEY GET THAT INTO THEIR BOURGEOIS BRAINS?". This separates the reader and author alike from the bourgeois--it makes it 'us against them'. By creating a sense of right people and wrong people, YHCHI validates what the reader does and wants to do because now it is deemed 'good'.
The last thing YHCHI does is call the reader to action, "ARE YOU WITH OR AGAINST ME? COME JOIN ME!". It is their last push to get the reader to do what they interpreted the work to mean. Because so much has been said about love and equality throughout the piece, the reader can interpret it freely--even to the point that as long as they choose to do something they have been successfully called to action.
-Gabrielle McBroom
