getting in too late with this response. I don't disagree. I think Red (if you count the Pig, It's Easy, and Miss Sweeney) is a better album as well. Difference is, all of those albums have absolute clunkers on them as well. The absolute worst examples of what Weezer's become in the last 10+ years. Green, while not a stellar life changing album, at least is smooth all the way through.
If I've learned one thing from listening to EVERY SINGLE DAMN ONE of Weezer's albums the last 25 years it's that there isn't an insincere bone in Rivers' body.
Weezer hasn't had a solid top to bottom album since Green, but they do have maybe a dozen solid songs since then... and anyway they only play the hits live.
Stereogum's attitude toward these sort've situations don't help. If anyone every tries to explain their mind set in the course of apologizing suddenly it taints everything for some reason.
As a man unstuck in time, I can say with authority that ya'll will miss the days when SNL could make light hearted rap parodies about RBG. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to the Trump mines.
I think there were some good ideas here. The inner monologue thing is clever, and having Baldwin play Trump as a pseudo-straight man is a good instinct to try and keep things fresh. But I feel like at this point, Trump and Kanye have just kind of drained us all to the point where theres no way to show it where it doesn't come off as more exhausting than funny.
I think he's referring to Buddy Holly. Honestly though, if you're getting offended by something as tame as Buddy Holly, you probably just need a more engaging hobby in your life.
A common tune throughout the last 100 years. A country's people go through years of economic decline, corruption, and incompetence opening the door for a brutal, autocratic leader to take hold. Hell, it's happened in Russia twice! All in the name of order. Trump is of course an exception to this, because despite an improving economy and competent leadership the American people love reality TV and hate black people and women.
Way more tame than I was expecting. It's not like they're depicting a Trump murder. It's just that Trump brought about the apocalypse and now he's a skeleton with a bad come over. NBD
FWTW I saw him in One Man Two Guvnors on Broadway some years back he fucking killed it. So, I don't mind so much if his show is a little lame... who even actually watches late night tv anymore? All the good stuff is just clipped onto youtube the next day.
Wow, people hate James Corden so much up in here not one mention of the even more horrible human being he's sharing the stage with in the clip. Although, it's Corden's fault for booking her, so...
Yes, how dare someone defend their dead sibling when accused of child molestation (by an anonymous third party, by the way). What could she possibly be thinking?
People are really getting next level with this. There's a dozen reasons to remove her from the image that have nothing to do with her being Transgender. It's not like she's even that strong the focus of the original image, she's in the background and if no one told you it was her 99% of people probably would've never known. Not everything requires our deep concern and outrage.
This song had a very interesting road to the mainstream. I've read that it was originally written by Mann based on her relationship with Michael Hussman when he accused her of treating him like the aggrieved protagonist of the song. So there's a way to look at it where she's singing from his point of view to herself. Then the genders were reversed for commercial reasons. So, a song written by Mann about her male partner feeling manipulated by her became a song about a lesbian relationship then a feminist anthem about abuse in heteronormative relationships. I personally don't think the change had any significant impact on the song itself (indeed, it may have even done more to INCREASE it's potency.) either way, a wandering road indeed.
CBGBs was admittedly before my time but of everyone I've talked to from that era has pretty been of the opinion that it was a shit hole and the owner was an exploitive dickhead. So, this is probably what the owner would've wanted.
People want to get their kicks in before he's gone, it's not rocket science. Though Spotify may want to alter the language of that ban a little so banning R. Kelly actually makes sense. If "Ignition" promotes violence about half of the songs written in the last 30 years also meet that criteria.
First of all, an even basic internet search would yield plenty of interviews with Axl from the 80s that will disprove your whole missive. This song isn't written from the POV of a character. It's Axl's own ignorance unfiltered. "I don't understand why white people can't say "ni#$er." "I'm pro heterosexual." he's quoted as saying in defense of the lyrics and plenty of other nonsense. Even for the 80s its colossally regressive. At the end of the song he calls himself a "Small town white boy" as a half-assed way to excuse all of the offensive crap he just said. Like, "Hey I'm not hateful, I'm just a simple man calling it like I see it." Like he's the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer or some garbage. But even all of that I might be willing to forgive if the song had any redeeming qualities musically. No bridge, no breakdown, no hook. The melody is a generic, repetitive, snooze fest. There's nothing to like about this song.
The Spotify angle is interesting and a little scary. I'm not saying for one moment that Kelly isn't a reprehensible creep. All signs points to yet in that regard. I'm asking at what point do we cross over the boundary into actively preventing people from taking in the art of those we find reprehensible? Not saying I have the answer, and yeah, I ge the monetary angle of it all. Still, a discussion that is important.
Can't help but wonder if this is more about his anger for what he describes as the "Progressive Movement" than it is about widely popular gun control measures.
I don't think it applies because his behavior, in the way he describes it, is not toxic. In fact, he seems to have the impression that women are so subservient to men in society that it is impossible for them to ever give consent. He's inadvertently infantilizing women.
I mean, do what you feel you gotta do, but connecting this to the #metoo movement etc. is a little cuckoo crazy. I mean, if you read his earlier letter it basically reads as "I dated someone. It was complicated. Didn't work out. I blame myself because I'm a man." Maybe he's warping the situation somehow but If you're going to have that mentality then maybe you shouldn't date anyone at all?
He's since apologized for this. Whether or not the allegations were true, in the moment I don't think it's all that surprising he didn't want to talk about it.
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