Take this over her being a leader of government any day.

So the girl was probably drunk and got to close trying to take a fucking picture of you and you felt so threatened that you slapped her? Now he’s gonna get an attorney involved to justify this horse shit? Fuck this guy. These are the situations where cancelling someone is appropriate.

Add YBB to this ever expanding list

it’s okay for people to be bummed that the center of their entire album release strategy has dropped out.

😘

If you were reading a hyper-contemporary, hyper-online novel about our dark dark age, this would be too on-the-nose and absurd seeming.

Also, why is it a Novelist, Filmmaker etc, can present their work without it being necessarily seen as a personal reflection, but songwriters are always boxed in to the confessional?

everyone stay so fresh and so clean out there

because maybe he was promoting unsavory characters in a way that showed them positively when there is very little positive about them? im really just spit balling here, because i havent listening to much of his catalog so i cant comment of whether he should, but it seems conceivable to me that there would be a proper time and place for a songwriter changing or omitting lyrics or even whole songs even if they arent autobiographical.

Fine…it’s the end of music as we know it. Ring the bells…the end is near.

You assume these artists would make real money without corona. Which is some grade A bullshit.

I agree. But let’s face it…there were too many festivals anyway. Next year all will be forgotten at coughcella and Governor’s medicineball.

Update: they’ll be fine.
Update 2: sports teams will also be fine
Update 3: movies will be fine

Honestly the economic impact is what I’m more worried about than the straight-up pandemic side of things. This is the biggest crisis in the tourism industry since 9/11, and abrupt unemployment – especially for service workers like janitorial staff, security guards, kitchen workers, food vendors and drivers – can be financially devastating, and make getting health insurance and care impossible. I think there will be a lot of deaths caused by coronavirus that we never actually tie to the virus itself: people whose sudden unemployment has pushed them into the poverty trap of not getting prompt preventative care for other health issues, people who end up homeless as they lose the ability to pay their rent, people with conditions exacerbated by stress that take lethal turns. The slow tragedy of “I lost my job and then my life spun out of control” doesn’t make headlines but it’s devastating for many families, and the tourism industry is not only huge, but sustains entire nations.