Nope, you're right. They really killed their momentum releasing RTJ3 on Christmas Eve, which is the worst day of the year to drop a new album.
RTJ2 had the benefit of coming out at the perfect time, being fuck ridiculous good, and serving as an easy consensus pick for music critics looking to stay out of the then-raging War on Drugs vs. Sun Kil Moon beef.
RE: Hells Angels, I have never and will never understand the weird admiration people have for violent criminals: the Hells Angels, the Pagans, the mafia, the Crips, the Bloods, etc.
Everybody has heard a Harley dad talk about how badass motorcycle gangs are, a Philly/NJ/NY native wax nostalgic about how classy the mob is, or some music critic—props to Tom Breihan for making a conscious effort not to do this—sound just a little too excited writing about a rapper's actual gang affiliations and/or murders.
It's, like, they kill people. And extort people. And traffic drugs and humans. And intimidate witnesses and rig elections. You know that, right?
cappie, cappie, cappie...
That's ikimasu ("go"), not kimasu, and that monstrosity of a sentence is what happens when bloc puts "you go girl" into an online translator.
'member when Mark Ronson recorded "Feel Right" with Mystikal after Mystikal got out of jail for rape but before Mystikal went back to jail for rape?
I 'member.
Related: The other week someone commented that your name in Japanese would be written "ko-ke-pa-ra-te."
That's not true. It's コークパーティー, pronounced "ko-ku-pah-tee." And they don't have upper- or lower-case letters, so you're good.
Wish it’d been you there with us instead of these two girls who showed up buzzed 10 minutes before Kacey went on, butted right in front of a 5’2” Mrs. Gummo, and spent the whole show doing that eyes-closed wiggle dance from The Chappelle Show skit about white people dancing to music with electric guitar.
Natalie Prass opened and sounded great. Kacey played a great set minus some odd song choices—“Family Is Family” over “Biscuits”?—and somebody proposed during “Golden Hour” (she said yes).
Ironic covers suck because the artists—male or female—are trying way too hard to be clever.
For every all-bro rock band covering a song by a female pop singer or boy band, there's a white girl with an acoustic guitar doing an omg soooooo unexpected cover of a rap song.
Exhibit A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0BPnJUx_Yw
The guitar solo from "Savory" is an all-timer. A lot like "Paranoid Android"'s in that it fits the song perfectly and no one but him could have ever come up with it.
He headlined The Other Site Music Festival less than a week after they called out Justin Timberlake for the high crime of being a dummy and naming his single "Take Back the Night" without realizing it's also an anti-sexual violence non-profit.
If that's not bad faith...
HOLD ON, WE'RE STILL GOING HOME
In 2014 Lindsay Zoladz even wrote a whole feature about how badly "Take Back the Night" traumatized her, which included gems like:
"Controversy has a way of sliding right off certain public figures—and more often than not, these people are clean-cut white men. "
WELP
They also put him at #1 on "The 10 Best Things at Pitchfork Music Festival 2013"...
https://www.stereogum.com/1412041/the-10-best-things-at-pitchfork-music-festival-2013/franchises/list/attachment/r-kelly-4/
...and hand-waved the allegations away with:
"Kelly may have demons that trail him, but you can tell that when he's performing, he's only making music because he wants it to make the world a better place."
Also worth noting: No one in the comment section called them out.
Everyone is going about these apologies all wrong.
What you gotta do is announce a partnership with a non-profit that combats sexual violence as a way to help promote your concert. Make that the focus of your story. Wait until, like, the end of the third paragraph, then apologize.
Fucken amateurs
I love Tame Impala, have told everyone I know to listen to them since Innerspeaker dropped, saw them on the Lonerism tour, and agree they’re far and away the best new band of the decade.
But this is spot-on: They barely move around, and they play every song exactly the way it sounds on the album.
I figured The Other Site wouldn’t even bother covering this, which would’ve been shitty but predictable.
BUT...
In a new low, they wrote an article without even mentioning Jess Hopper—I’d settle for “an Other Site contributor”—or her apology. After kinda-sorta doing the right thing by apologizing for booking R. Kelly, thank you, Other Site, for letting us know who you really are:
https://pitchfork.com/news/amen-dunes-opens-up-about-childhood-sexual-abuse/
There are still 12 days of 2018 left.
If you think we won't get, say, "Liam Gallagher Has a Lot to Say About My Little Pony" or "Beach House Tease Chainsmokers Diss Track" at the buzzer, then I don't know what to tell you.
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