October 18, 2007
Today's drug-addled Bigmouth delivers a more vivid than usual spin on Behind The Music's classic third act. Here we learn about hallucinations induced by a night of shooting coke at an Arizona hotel:
That's when my little buddies showed up. They always looked like the creature in Predator to me, but a fraction the size and translucent blue-gray; they were wiry and muscular with the same pointed heads and rubbery-looking dreadlocks. They'd always been a welcome, carefree distraction, but this hallucination was sinister. I could see them gathering in the doorway; there was an army of them, holding tiny machine guns and weapons that looked like harpoons.
The rocker's friends then tried to make him go to rehab. He said yes, but quickly checked out, downing half a liter of vodka on limo ride home. Hazard a guess, take the jump for the answer...
CONTINUE READING BIGMOUTHS STRIKE AGAIN: TINY PREDATORS EDITION...
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latest by Adam
September 27, 2007
Sometimes you choose your producer out of sheer synergy. Like, Naeem probably picked Benny Blanco to do the Bangers & Cash stuff 'cause the two were bonded in their love for ripe asses. On the flip, though, sometimes you choose your control room purely in contemplation of garnering big sales. So it went with today's Bigmouth and the Maestro.
Yes, it's calculated. We wanted to have a hit record. We wanted to get played on U.S. Top 40 radio ... So we said, "Right, let's get Timbaland." The session was less than a week, and we came out with three songs. We thought, "God, if it can be as quick and painless as that, then let's do some more."
Guess the chart-minded speaker, then take the jump.
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latest by alex
September 25, 2007
You know how these things go; we pull an absurd musician-quote, give you time to ponder, then ID the perp. Beefs, ego, that sorta stuff is fine, but when artists start talking about song inspiration and bring mamas into it, well you know you've got yourself a winner.
[My new single] is about a guy going out to pick up girls and thinking it's true that if your mama's hot, you're hot. And if your mom's busted, then nine times out of 10, you're about to be busted, too. I came up with it because my ex-girlfriend's mom was hot. Everyone knew it.
Guess the Mendelian genetics expert, then take the jump for the shocking conclusion.
CONTINUE READING BIGMOUTHS STRIKE AGAIN: MILF EDITION...
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latest by seth
September 17, 2007
Shakespeare's alright, but c'mon, you know he never hooked shit up like this. In an interview with Radar, today's Bigmouth explains why he's smarter than the average pop star...
"It's harder than you think to write the sort of song that keeps your attention and entices you to sing it verbatim later. It's easy, if you're a poet, to write complex verses like, 'I'm coming after you like VWXYZ.' Just think about that. It's like, 'You, V does come after U! That's fucking crazy!' My mind thinks like that all the time, coming up with crazy clever metaphors and rhymery things."
Guess the poet who knows it, and take the jump for the answer.
CONTINUE READING BIGMOUTHS STRIKE AGAIN: CRAZY CLEVER EDITION...
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latest by Ashrey
September 10, 2007
Today's very special installment of Bigmouths... brings us not one but two quotes with which to tickle your pullquote identification skillz. In one sitting, discussing global events and self-confidence, this artiste established both deep-rooted compassion and infallible logic. Bravo.
#1
"I am a very giving person. When the hurricane thing happened, I went to my closet, filled six boxes of stuff and said to my assistant, 'Take it to Katrina!' I also like to give stuff to people who are my 'workers,' especially if they don't make much money."
#2
"People love me and people hate me, but I'm comfortable in my own skin and that's what counts. And anyway if you do hate me, you're the loser, not me."
Nobody's arguing with that. Guess the altruistic rhetorician, then take the jump.
CONTINUE READING BIGMOUTHS STRIKE AGAIN: GENEROSITY & LOSERS EDITION...
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latest by Terri Mckee
August 24, 2007
Been a long time since rock festivals were about peace, love, and understanding, and that anti-maxim goes triple for the Carling Weekend. Still though, you'd think the bands would present a unified front and show a little love for each other. And, you'd think wrong. Here's what a big Reading/Leeds scheduled artist had to say about bill-mate Billy Corgan et al.
I was never a big Smashing Pumpkins fan back when they were the Pumpkins, not to shit on Billy (Corgan) or anything but I don't hear anything that would make me want to care.
I think trying to resurrect the name Smashing Pumpkins .........its all a bit corporate for me.
Guess the Pumpkins smasher, take the jump.
CONTINUE READING BIGMOUTHS STRIKE AGAIN: BASHING PUMPKINS EDITION...
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latest by ev
August 3, 2007
This ain't no mud hut, this ain't no disco... Who's mad as hell, and not gonna take this anymore?
"You know, hip-hop came out of having the right stuff, and you had to have a slavery and you had to have a war and you had to have all these things in order for Sean 'Puffy' Combs to be singing about fucking Bentleys. You had to have that journey. That takes a long time, and in America it took three generations for that to happen. And for me to come from a mud hut and to be here and shouting in front of a disco, it took me 15 years. And that's all I represent. Everything boiled down is that, that's all it is. If I get it back to Africa, this is what I've accomplished."
Guess the gob, then take the jump.
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latest by sara
August 2, 2007
The internet's effect on musical creativity is the sort of thing about which reasonable people can differ. Where's it all headed, and which way should we go? For this and more, we turn to one of our most reliably loquacious bigmouths.
The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff. Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn’t bode well for long-term artistic vision. It’s just a means to an end. We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet. I mean, get out there — communicate. Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet. Let’s get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging. I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span. There’s too much technology available. I'm sure, as far as music goes, it would be much more interesting than it is today.
Guess the advocate for internet abolition, then take the jump.
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