Eeeeeeeh...I know for the longest time (or so it seemed) that Trent Reznor really, really wanted to make some kind of Year Zero show on HBO. Me, I thought the album stood on its own merits well enough. All this ARG promo shit never pays off and almost seems to be a distraction the main thing, whether it's an album or a movie or whatever. Although if NIN is gonna make, I don't know, Year One, sure. Hook me up.
There must be some kind of cultural term for a thing that is not a relevant thing but a bunch of vested interests are very intent on how relevant that non-relevant thing is.
How sad that the only time I've ever even heard of Franz Stahl is being overshadowed by his poorly misjudged choice to badmouth a tragedy. I simply can't be arsed to think he's making any kind of cogent point here.
The dumbest and most honest thing is my emotional reaction over this was, "Wait what? No, Chris is fine, I just read an article about how they're still working on the new album," like that meant I actually knew and have hung out with him in any way.
Ah, shit. Cornell has had, well, a LOT of troubles in his past (to say nothing of a soul-crushing number of friends who died way too young) but I had really wanted to believe so much of this was behind him, with everything he had done to rebuild his life, it really seemed like he was ready to be around for decades watching his kids grow up and doing various side projects.
Sadly, this does look pretty part for the course in terms of blandly ugly public art:
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This whole set of circumstances is supremely fucked up. Why in the god damn hell would anyone reveal that someone died on the bus you'd be touring on. Let alone, you know, the whole premise of being someone grappling with sobriety and addiction and learning the person you are literally replacing is someone who died from the same kinds of things you yourself are fighting every day.
Anyone who wants doubt can find it, I suppose. But a trail revealing that these charges are much more legally complicated and less clear cut than they initially appeared when presented to the public is a pretty fucking far cry from the idea that Kesha was lying.
Although you make good points, they're very much points that only work out in a long-game sort of way-especially if you look at the actual conversion rates for streaming royalties. I would imagine Ty is looking more at the money he can make this quarter, rather than what stuff might be like in three years if he consistently maintains his profile without ever having to take a break.
After the Jesse Hughes debacle, it's only good business sense of Queens to voice their own official declaration. Josh Homme is more of a quiet conservative in many regards. I would like to think that a statement like this from Queens should stand out more than a traditionally leftist band.
I kind of agree with him, but at the same time what I find especially amazing is how terrible so many bands actually are at social media to begin with. Hip Hop and R&B are light years ahead of basically any new 'rock' band I see online anymore. I see people dropping new singles and mix tapes all the time, and they really have their look figured out, and how they want to be seen, and what they're about. And it feels like there's twenty of em every day. And then one a week, some new band farts out this picture of 2-5 awkward people who don't even seem to know how to dress themselves, let alone stand together, with a shitty name and a 27 minute album, and I'm supposed to be impressed? I miss rock giving a fuck.
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