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MGMT turned down Lady Gaga
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MGMT have turned down supporting slots with Lady Gaga, U2, Coldplay and Foo Fighters.
The ‘Electric Feel’ hitmakers – consisting of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Martin Goldwasser – are determined not to perform arena shows with huge acts because they don’t want to be pop stars.
Andrew said: “We’ve recently been offered support slots with a ton of big bands. Really huge, enormous, big bands – Like Lady Gaga and U2 and Coldplay and Foo Fighters. and we turned them all down. We really didn’t want to do any of that.”
Ben believes the US duo have been “blown out of proportion” as a musical act because their aim was always to be a rock band and not a pop group.
He said: “Well, we really do feel like we were blown out of proportion by everybody. We don’t feel like pop stars, we feel like a rock band. We don’t want to play arenas. It’s not our mission.”
Because of this, they have made a point of making sure their new LP ‘Congratulations’ is different to their last album ‘Oracular Spectacular’.
Andrew explained: “I think on some level it is a reaction to the success of the first one. I mean, of course we were happy and felt lucky that stuff happened, but it wasn’t really what we were shooting for. I think a lot of people misinterpreted and misunderstood what we were about.”
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The Brittany Murphy Comments: Three Kinds of Idiots
The Brittany Murphy Comments: Three Kinds of Idiots
Last night I was reading comments on my somewhat macabre Brittany Murphy appreciation, and a lot of them were very nice. But it was also an occasion to re-visit the Three Horsemen of Internet Idiocy, who always ride in whenever there’s some kind of sadness or tragedy.
Idiot #1: The celebrity hater. I love these people. They monitor every gossip site, read every article about every celebrity and then sign on to say, “Enough already! Stop commenting!” These are people who HATE celebrities SO MUCH that they can’t stop reading about them. And who insist that celebrities are NO BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE . . . and yet don’t really believe they’re human. And have feelings. And friends. And fears. And loved ones. They’re so insecure and bitter that they think everybody has it better than they do . . . and thus, celebrities deserve what they get, whatever they get.
Idiot #2: Beavis and Butthead Revisited. These are the idiots who sign on wherever they think there may be strong emotion and then say whatever they think will make people angry. They make dead jokes. Yesterday somebody was asking about the size of Murphy’s breasts, etc. Morons. However, I love these people, too, because they’re funny in ways they don’t realize. They think they are impersonating something they’re not. They think they’re pretending. But they aren’t. In truth, they are precisely what they’re pretending to be.
Idiot #3: The Fake Liberal. The Fake Liberal is the person who really cares about nothing and is angry that anybody cares about anything. But instead of admitting his deadness to himself, he announces it to the world in an oblique and unconscious way.
Thus whenever there’s a sad or tragic event, he will sign on to a site and say, “Isn’t this out of proportion? Should we really care about some beautiful, talented woman who touched our lives and was found dead at 32, when somebody got mugged in Oakland, and DO WE CARE ABOUT THAT?” This kind of idiot tries to pass off his inability to care about the things other people care about as some kind of HEIGHTENED CAPACITY to care about THE THINGS THAT TRULY MATTER. But he doesn’t care about the guy in Oakland any more than he cares about the dead actress. He just doesn’t care, period, and this is so transparent it’s ridiculous.
The Fake Liberal reminds me of that scene out of Matthew in the Bible. A woman comes along and annoints Jesus’s head with expensive perfume, and the disciples become indignant. “What is the point of such extravagance? This could have been sold for a good price and the money given to the poor?” Jesus wasn’t too impressed with this line of argument. The woman had done a good thing. Leave it alone.
In the aftermath of 9/11, I had the misery of occasionally running into these Fake Liberals, who would say, “Who cares about what happened in New York? There are terrorist attacks all over the world. Thousands of people are killed all the time. How about the people who are starving in . . . [fill in the blank]?”
These people were unable to feel anything about the deaths of 3,000 people, but they still wanted to be thought of as compassionate. What twisted vanity.
Anyway, you can’t talk someone into having a heart or a conscience. I’d just get up and walk out of the room.
Posted By: Mick LaSalle (Email, Twitter) | December 22 2009 at 09:10 AM
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