Oh great this is going to be fun
And Dennis from Auf Wiedersehen Pet is his Dad
Get these confused with alt-j
Not sure I could him a tune by either of them though sorry
I donāt really think who peopleās parents are really matters in the context of what they create (though obviously privilege enables you to do a vast amount of stuff). I feel bad for him a lot of the time, because I think he comes across as naive but blustering and as @JaguarPirate said he sometimes comes out with things that are just so moving and beautiful. I just ā¦ I donāt know why but I canāt get my head around him, and because I feel like heās very much the centre of it and I canāt separate him from the art I struggle to latch onto it. I think A Brief Inquiry contained some incredible writing, and the production and arrangements are awesome. But something about the whole package doesnāt quite click for me, which is annoying because it really should, itās exactly the sort of thing I like.
- the one nine seven five
- the one thousand, nine hundred and seventy-five
- the nineteen-hundred and seventy-five
0 voters
Subtract 1974 from a sum of 1975, and the number youāre left with is the score Iād give them.
Blink One Thousand, Nine Hundred and Seventy-Five
Do think thereās a curse of Ed where he has so perfected replicating styles of modern music that everything, including The 1975, kind of starts sounding like Ed.
The 19 75
There was a video where he grabbed one of the roadies who was fixing a technical fault mid song and gave him a kiss and the roadie was clearly so uncomfortable and he sort of went along with it because thousands of people were screaming. The son of loose woman has just let all the fame go to his head.
Feels like he wasnāt being actively racist here, just thoughtless and self promoting.
Obviously going off in a huff about it is not a good look either.
Get the sense that heās a bit earnest and goes for the āonline languageā angle sometimes and misses the mark as a result, but always get the sense that his heartās in the right place on the whole. This was genuinely a really good thing to do:
Iād be perfectly happy to listen to them even if theyāre not really my thing on the whole tbh.
I both like them more than I expected I would and dislike them more than I expected I would
This is what I was getting at. As someone who has a history of putting their foot in their mouth, but who thankfully lacks a platform of any kind, I canāt help but feel really bad for him when he clearly does something thoughtless. He doesnāt seem great at reacting to criticism either, and it makes him look utterly uncaring a lot of the time. I donāt think heās bad as such. I think to an extent itās like the whole progressives in politics thing; if youāre going to position yourself as St Wokeness then you have to be extra thoughtful and extra sensitive to the needs of others, because you really look like a massive hypocrite if youāre then just flailing around saying shit and having to issue weird retractions. Because his writing is so personal it makes it hard for me, personally, to listen to it.
(In case itās not obvious I spent a while when ABI came out tussling with this in my head lol)
(Also, this is a big reason why itās great that Iām not famous, because I would have to just say nothing at all; not because Iām a massive bigot or anything, but because I am a big old chunderhead)
Think he deleted his twitter not in a huff but cos he realised if he didnāt heād keep putting his foot in it
Ah yes. The Gap Band
Thereās a good reason why some people have their Twitter accounts run by a PR person! Even thinking about how it must have felt to have mis-stepped that badly gives me the cringe shivers, I canāt imagine how bad he would have felt.
Got no reason for cominā to me
And the rain runninā down
Thereās no reason
And the same voice
Cominā to me like itās all slowinā down
And believe me
I was the one who let you know
I was your sorry ever after
Nine-teen, seventy-five