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The main problem with this track is that much of it isn't even about Newport, just a bunch of irrelevant Welsh stereotypes. If the author had bothered getting someone actually familiar with the city then the end result would be more pleasing. As it is it just doesn't ring true to actual Newportonians.

We whole heartedly disagree with newportMONMOUTHSHIRE & as we live in the city centre (as opposed to Mr Monmouthshire of suburbia)...

There are so many newportisms in "Newport (Ymerodraeth State Of Mind)" it's untrue! & yeah there are stereotypes but more of 'port peeps (the wenglish outcasts that we are) than the 'Welsh' generally and as the whole thing is a TONGUE-IN-CHEEK and really REALLY funny.......

......we'd like to respectfully suggest that Mr N.M either go down the spaaa & look under the red caaaaa 4 their sense of humour braaaa or quite simply just not listen to THE TUNEAGE again!!

just thought we'd share our thoughts....

ps as a precaution maybe he/she should avoid anything funny 4 a while cos they might come out in a rash

Seriously what do Craig Bellamy, Gavin Henson, the Milliennium Stadium, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Steve Jones, Catherine Zeta Jones, Llanfair PG and "big leeks" have to do with Newport? What is this "Big up to Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Assembly" all about? The majority of Newportonians didn't even want the Welsh Assembly and Plaid Cymru regularly come stone cold last in any election. Whoever wrote these lyrics just threw together a bunch of stuff relating to "Wales" and then tries selling it as somehow related to the "small Welsh town of Newport". They can't even get that right.

They as much as admit they know nothing about Newport when the only person they actually mention as coming from here is Josie D'Arby and they had to look that up on Wikipedia!

And anyone who actually lives in the city as you claim to would instantly realise that neither of the actors in the video even have Newport accents. Can you really name one thing that is actually a Newportism rather than a generic "Welsh" stereotype?

As per my previous post, this could have been funny, but is ruined by the complete lack of anything specific to Newport in it. It is a poor rip-off of the GLC, who have the advantage of actually BEING from the 'Port.

@NewportMonmouthshire

You ate totally missing the point of the song. I'm taking a wild stab in the dark here but my guess is that you haven't even heard the original song that this is a parody of, or at lest you haven't listened properly to the lyrics? (Empire state of mind)

If you compare both lyrics, you will discover a very clever parallel, so much so that after hearing the Newport verison the NYC one starts sounding a bit ridiculous too, and that is the whole point of a parody.

"The main problem with this track is that much of it isn't even about Newport, just a bunch of irrelevant Welsh stereotypes. If the author had bothered getting someone actually familiar with the city then the end result would be more pleasing. As it is it just doesn't ring true to actual Newportonians."

If the authors had done what you suggest then it would no longer be a parody and would cease to be funny.

Listen to both songs, preferably with subtitles so you can realise how clever the lyrical parallels are and then come back to write a more infomed opinion regarding the song.

How ludicrous of Richard out of 60ft Dolls to say that Newport is hated by the Welsh and the English. I've never met anyone, anywhere who hates Newport. Most people don't even know where it is. His comment, however, demonstrates characteristics typical of Newportonians: he's clearly suffering from an identity crisis; an inferiority complex; and paranoia.

As for the video, yes, it gets its cultural references all wrong but works as a parody of that rather pompous Jay-Z record. Newport comes out of it quite well, I think.

"People saying they're from Newport and copying our leisurewear" said the GLC lo, those many years ago. At the time it was said tongue in cheek as they rather expected that no one would ever do it. And now someone has!

But this is a mere Tom Waits to the GLC's Captain Beefheart, a Roy Lichtenstein to the GLC's Jack Kirby.

Caradaoc Evans talks much tripe. Newport has long been the town with no welsh identity, partly due to the huge influx of workers from Ireland and the south west of England - the points made by Newport Monmouthshire are valid: no body in their right mind (except a reactionary doing it for a laugh) would support Welsh separatists, nationalists and cultural tyrants, The Party Of Wales (Plaid Cymru). They are not the party of Wales, they are the party of Welsh speakers, a difference, as the poorest underclass in this country are from Wales and not supported by Plaid, but discriminated against. Also, EVERYBODY from Newport knows Josie D’Arby’s from Newport as she used to be a barmaid in the very popular Riverside Tavern in the 90s...

Caradoc Evans is guilty of generalizations and 'ludicrous' casual racism when he says 'characteristics typical of Newportonians'. Mr Evans goes on to say that 'most people don't know where Newport is...' Well he may be right there as the world population is around 6,859,500,000, however, the one thing we can say with some certainty is that even more people don't know who Caradoc Evans is nor care

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