Everybody wants to be involved in black music but nobody wants to take on what potentially comes with black music... You need to know 360 where these artists come from, and you have to be willing to stand up and speak on behalf of them and back them. You also have to know that, if there's ever a slip-up or if anyone ever falls down or goes backwards, you are not going to run. | | | | Hair mettle: Paramore's Hayley Williams at Bonnaroo, June 8, 2018.
(C Flanigan/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Everybody wants to be involved in black music but nobody wants to take on what potentially comes with black music... You need to know 360 where these artists come from, and you have to be willing to stand up and speak on behalf of them and back them. You also have to know that, if there's ever a slip-up or if anyone ever falls down or goes backwards, you are not going to run.”
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| | rantnrave:// Newsflash: It isn't 1968 anymore. It isn't 1998 or 2008 either. If you choke a 15-year-old girl in your audience and put a microphone between her breasts, you are, at the very least, going to get called out, loudly and publicly. And you're not going to have the right to say, "But JIM MORRISON did stuff!" Because it wasn't OK in 1968 either, and because what your self-entitled forebears got away with 50 years ago is irrelevant to what you, an adult man, choose to do today. And the fact that your victims—or, if we must, alleged victims—can now share their stories, both privately and publicly, in a way that was much harder to do 50 years ago—or even 10 years ago—is not at all unfair. It is, in fact, incredibly fair. Because it's one of the tools that's going to get you to stop, and make it safer for (mostly) female fans to go not only to your shows, but to any shows. And you should have stopped long ago. I met the ORWELLS once, five or six years ago, when some if not all of them were teenagers and they were promoting their debut album. They were a good, raucous live band whose songs weren't quite there yet. They were a terrible interview, a too-cool-to-care frontman slumped on a couch at THE ECHO between supporting players doing their best to fill in the gaps. Or maybe they had no interest in talking to an old dude like me, I don't know. I finished my work, packed up my things and watched from a distance over the next few years as they clawed their way up the garage-rock ranks with albums like—you couldn't make up these titles if you tried—DISGRACELAND and TERRIBLE HUMAN BEINGS. "We're not the most liked boys on the block," singer MARIO CUOMO said last year. That turned out to be an understatement. Women in their hometown, Chicago, and around the garage-rock circuit had been quietly sharing stories of predatory behavior, often with underaged girls, some alleged to be consensual but manipulative, some alleged to be rape. Twelve days ago, one woman went public, via TWITTER, which gave several other women the courage or the license (or call it what you want) to go public, too, with assault accusations against Cuomo and two of his bandmates. It was over for the band in a #METOO minute. Two days after the initial tweet, the Orwells admitted to "callow altercations and vulgar language" but said, "No member of this band has ever acted without consent or maliciously taken advantage of anyone." Two days after that, the band broke up without saying anything more. The Orwells aren't the first indie rockers called out by the #MeToo movement and they undoubtedly won't be the last. But the swiftness of their fall should serve as a reminder, a warning and a beacon of hope for everybody else... FLEETWOOD MAC debuts its new CROWDED HEARTS lineup on ELLEN... YEEZY apologizes to DRIZZY... The REV. AL GREEN joins Twitter... VANILLA ICE was on that quarantined plane. Twitter noticed... Who doesn't love a list? Such as all 131 VAN HALEN songs, from "ERUPTION" to "WHY CAN'T THIS BE LOVE," as ranked by CHUCK KLOSTERMAN. We could spend days poring over these. MusicSET: "Everything They Ever Did, Ranked"... "This Is What It Sounds Like When Lugs Try." A-plus headline. D-minus PRINCE cover... Fare thee well, PETER MARGASAK. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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