Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments

Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments

The weekend is here and we deserve it. And for those of you trapped indoors, I have some excellent counter-programming: The Case Of The Missing Hit, the instant-classic podcast episode Reply All put out this week. It relates to ’90s alt-rock but I don’t wanna spoil anything, so just listen…

Your best and worst comments from this hell week are below.

THIS WEEK’S 10 HIGHEST RATED COMMENTS

#9  kilgore trout
Score:45 | Mar 11th

Take this over her being a leader of government any day.

Posted in: Truly The Darkest Timeline
#8  MerchCunningham
Score:45 | Mar 11th

Posted in: Truly The Darkest Timeline
#7  cokeparty
Score:45 | Mar 8th

So the girl was probably drunk and got to close trying to take a fucking picture of you and you felt so threatened that you slapped her? Now he’s gonna get an attorney involved to justify this horse shit? Fuck this guy. These are the situations where cancelling someone is appropriate.

Posted in: DaBaby Appears To Assault A Woman On The Way To The Stage, Fans Boo Him Out Of The Venue
#6  blochead
Score:47 | Mar 12th

Add YBB to this ever expanding list

Posted in: Everything Is Cancelled
#5  billypilgrim
Score:50 | Mar 11th

it’s okay for people to be bummed that the center of their entire album release strategy has dropped out.

Posted in: How Will Festival Cancellations Due To Coronavirus Affect Indie Musicians?
#4  Scott Lapatine
Score:51 | Mar 11th

😘

Posted in: Truly The Darkest Timeline
#3  bakedbeans
Score:52 | Mar 11th

If you were reading a hyper-contemporary, hyper-online novel about our dark dark age, this would be too on-the-nose and absurd seeming.

Posted in: Truly The Darkest Timeline
#2  cokeparty
Score:63 | Mar 7th

Also, why is it a Novelist, Filmmaker etc, can present their work without it being necessarily seen as a personal reflection, but songwriters are always boxed in to the confessional?

Posted in: Nick Cave Addresses Whether He’ll Change Problematic Old Lyrics
#1  Guy Incognito
Score:68 | Mar 6th

everyone stay so fresh and so clean out there

Posted in: Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments

THIS WEEK’S 5 LOWEST RATED COMMENTS

#5  tomcl09
Score:-26 | Mar 7th

because maybe he was promoting unsavory characters in a way that showed them positively when there is very little positive about them? im really just spit balling here, because i havent listening to much of his catalog so i cant comment of whether he should, but it seems conceivable to me that there would be a proper time and place for a songwriter changing or omitting lyrics or even whole songs even if they arent autobiographical.

Posted in: Nick Cave Addresses Whether He’ll Change Problematic Old Lyrics
#4  sandro
Score:-27 | Mar 11th

Fine…it’s the end of music as we know it. Ring the bells…the end is near.

Posted in: How Will Festival Cancellations Due To Coronavirus Affect Indie Musicians?
#3  sandro
Score:-27 | Mar 11th

You assume these artists would make real money without corona. Which is some grade A bullshit.

Posted in: How Will Festival Cancellations Due To Coronavirus Affect Indie Musicians?
#2  sandro
Score:-29 | Mar 11th

I agree. But let’s face it…there were too many festivals anyway. Next year all will be forgotten at coughcella and Governor’s medicineball.

Posted in: How Will Festival Cancellations Due To Coronavirus Affect Indie Musicians?
#1  sandro
Score:-47 | Mar 11th

Update: they’ll be fine.
Update 2: sports teams will also be fine
Update 3: movies will be fine

Posted in: How Will Festival Cancellations Due To Coronavirus Affect Indie Musicians?

THIS WEEK’S EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S CHOICE

  WilliamSockner
Score:16 | Mar 10th

Honestly the economic impact is what I’m more worried about than the straight-up pandemic side of things. This is the biggest crisis in the tourism industry since 9/11, and abrupt unemployment – especially for service workers like janitorial staff, security guards, kitchen workers, food vendors and drivers – can be financially devastating, and make getting health insurance and care impossible. I think there will be a lot of deaths caused by coronavirus that we never actually tie to the virus itself: people whose sudden unemployment has pushed them into the poverty trap of not getting prompt preventative care for other health issues, people who end up homeless as they lose the ability to pay their rent, people with conditions exacerbated by stress that take lethal turns. The slow tragedy of “I lost my job and then my life spun out of control” doesn’t make headlines but it’s devastating for many families, and the tourism industry is not only huge, but sustains entire nations.

Posted in: SXSW 2020 Cancellation Prompts Layoffs

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