He performs like a grandpa who was secretly teleported into a young man's body, but whom doesn't want anyone to find out, so he just dances the way he thinks the kids do nowadays.
Thus made me laugh out loud, my officemate asked what was so funny, I read it to her, she, too, laughed out loud. So thanks!
Also, reminds me of this similar headline from today: Family discovers 7 century-old baseball cards in dilapidated house.
The Strokes were never not about style. From just about the time they started playing shows, they made a conscious choice to always dress like they were about to go onstage. Sure, Julian's worn some questionable funky stuff in the ensuing years, but style was always a part of their package, and they used to make it work well for them.
This is such a fucking bummer. I was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2011, and thankfully I'm better now, but cancer is such a bitch, and it always hits me hard when someone in the news passes from it, especially someone young. At least she doesn't have to go through the bad stuff anymore, it really does suck, and I know hers must have been a lot worse than mine. Thoughts and prayers to her family and Camera Obscura, and may she rest in peace.
I'll still throw down for Robbers and Cowards (and Acoustic at the District!). Everything else has been hit or miss for me, but they've had some great singles and "First" is a damn good song.
I recently got to see them from the side of the stage (probably ventured further than my media pass was supposed to allow, but ya gotta go big!), and it was amazing. Remember how our teachers and aunts and uncles liked everything, but loooved 80s music? I realize I'm like that, but with early 2000s, and I'm fully OK admitting it.
I live in La, and my niece was visiting from Az, and wanted to dance to Disclosure. I was like "oh, there's this club in Hollywood that has three rooms, and in one, they play indie dance rock stuff, I'm sure they'd have Disclosure." They used to play Franz Ferdinand, The Bravery, DFA, all that stuff. Come to discover, they've been closed for a few years now. Those were good times. God, I'm old.
Remember when they were the hot new rock n roll gang? Those were good times. Now, all of his recent Q&As make it seem like he's turned out to be kind of a douche. Maybe it's age, maybe it's money, maybe he needs more layers of artifice back.
I think it's not so much hating on American Idol in general, it's more a good riddance to a beast that's well past its prime. I was a teenager when it started, and I was invested in that first season, I won't lie, but, not only did I age out of AI, it seems everyone else did, too. Yeah, it spawned an entire genre in the US -to the point that I think of shows as "American Idol for tattoo artists/ bakers/ whatever," and yeah, the muiscerratti [fuck me for using that word], including Stereogum, have become more poptimistic, but AI never grew with the audience it created. Other shows came along with bigger stars, and probably better production values, as AI slowly lost its grip on the Zeitgeist. I'm not in its demo, but if it produced a few megastars early on, and I can't name anyone who's been on there in the last ten years, that's a bad sign.
Yeah, Dave sounded pretty rough, but I guess that's the best I can expect from a guy singing high-pitched songs he recorded almost 40 years ago.
Also, I follow a guy on instagram who waa there, and he said that Dave cut his nose with the mic on the first run-through of Panama, hence the bandage. Setlist via @bobtyrrell
"Panama (twice 'cause Dave cut his nose half way through), Runnin' With The Devil, Unchained, Dance The Night Away, Hot For Teacher, Eruption/You Really Got Me, and Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love."
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