Does anyone else hate interviews?
 

Back again with yet some more annoying, stupid questions you guys can give me **** over.

Just thinking of how I hate interviews. Maybe they were ok 30+ years ago when all the lines hadn't been taken. But to do interviews nowadays is pointless. We've heard it all before. Just some artist sitting there like "Look at me and how intelligent and interesting I am, and how many cunning things I can say". They're just doing/saying the same crap that has been said for decades.

Who else gets what I'm saying?

Nobody will ever say anything intelligent again. It's a cruel world of has been dones that we live in for sure.

Exactly. But honestly I care nothing about whether a musician is innovative anymore. If it sounds good, it's worth listening to IMO. Interviews are just so annoying to me though. All artists want to sound exactly like the people who came before them. Like they want to sound special or something.

What did you do on your hiatus?
How often do you think you will visit MusicBanter in the future?

When did you discover you didn't like interviews?

What do you think that happen in 1984/1985 that changed interviews?

So are you in essence saying: "There is nothing new under the sun?"

Sounds like you are interviewing us, lol. No, but seriously that's an interesting question though I don't know maybe someone in our MusicBanter audience can answer that question. Who else gets what Pursuingchange is saying?

Gold, my neapy (you love it).

You need to replace the battery on your sarcasm detector.

No, I think your battery needs changed. Me saying exactly was sarcasm for ignoring your sarcasm.

I said 30+ years. Not exactly 30 years ago.

Oh, so you were being ironic when you were contradicting yourself, then?

Maybe it's not the interviews I hate so much as the artists who think they sound so intelligent and original when they speak, but are just speaking/behaving the same way every other damn artist did a googleplex times before they did. Idk, it just gets on my nerves.


My disclaimer in my OP was made to remind the community that I am in fact dumb, and most of the things I say will not make sense. I just get a kick out of being made fun of on forums. However, this thread is not meant as a troll. I genuinely hate interviews/interviewees!

"Ironic", "contradicting"? Those words are too big for me. I don't understand.

that makes it a little easier to bullshit your way into someone's line of approval.

....though about 90% of the time you're talking to someone who's a complete fucking idiot and it's a miracle they ever became a store manager.

Let me rephrase the question then: What do you think that happen circa 1980s that changed interviews?

Everything had been said/done.

Wait! I know what you're trying to do! You're trying to interview me!

I mean, generally music is a nailed down concept that's been around for at least sixty years. If you're a rock and roll artist who's never heard of Chuck Berry but who has heard those who he influenced, you may very well say something that Chuck Berry said without him or his infuencees (?) saying it because it's just an embodiment of the music. Really though, I wouldn't write it off as a whole. I only generally look at interview on Youtube and such (sometimes I conduct them myself if the band is obscure enough) if I really like the artist. Who knows? If they have enough to say to you through their music, it's quite possible that they might be able to convey that through language.

It's kind of like telling a cool Muslim guy you know to fuck off because you want your legs tomorrow morning or keeping damn sure not to keep your Catholic friend alone with your kid. It's really a case by case thing. Some people are good with words and music. Some suck at speaking intelligently without ripping someone off. Some are brilliant minds but make really shitty music. Some suck at speaking but make good music. Some suck at being original but their Zeppelin rip offs rival Zeppelin. Some just suck.

You can say fuck off with all interviews, but sometimes a band might surprise you with their insight. It won't always happen--I speak from experience--but sometimes that band that makes your soul shriek in pleasure can make your brain do the same with the band's words.

Really though. The Beatles said some stupid **** when they were 24? The Arctic Monkeys said some stupid **** when they were 24? **** dude, I guess the Arctic Monkeys just don't care about being original anymore.

And the Arctic Monkeys suck. Get the point?

When did you come to this realization, and how do you feel about it?

I was 23 years old, still a young naive kid. Lol

I think you're watching the wrong interviews.

Second-best Neapolitan moment ever.

This just seems like another tired 'everything used to be so much better' argument.

So, basically, all of human history culminated with the mid 80s?

I'd say that's about right.


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What toilet paper do you use?

Toilet paper? Who needs it?

Gosh, you guys sure know how take the most insignificant part of my OPs make them sound like something I didn't say in the first place.

I can't stand listening to interviews. It seems like a contest with the artists to see who can sound more intelligent and crafty when they speak.

What would you rather hear artists say during interviews? Just curious.

What about the ones where the artists sound dumb? Do you like those better?

Or drunk

Or, whatever this is...

Yes, the ones with dummies behaving as such are definitely a start towards better interviews.

I wouldn't call them dummies. Just... far too on things to be out in public, let alone in front of a camera.

Uhmm, was John high or is he just that much of an *******?

Being an a$$hole was one of the biggest contributors to his semi-success. He did it purposely - even if he was in a good mood.

He's not a a$$hole. He's a assle.

Both. John Lydon is a professional douchebag, but he was also likely so ****ed up on speed in that clip that he could barely see straight.

I just watched that video. He is being a dick. What a little $hit head.

That John Lydon clip was quite an eye-opener to me; I had no idea what a disagreeable interviewee he was. To me he seems to alternate between being pompous, narcistic and aggressive. His attempts to shock seem rather desperate, especially as they have all been done before:-
> the clever, quotable quip by the Beatles
> the sulky and unrevealing by Procul Harem, if I remember correctly
> the too out of it to be coherent by Syd Barratt
> the unwarrented aggression by Bob Dylan
I guess like many, JL finds it easier to dismiss history than learn from it.

On the topic of celebrity interviews, I also find them tedious in the extreme. They are a PR exercise that the media forces on artists regardless of how eloquent or interesting the artist may be. Unfortunately many celebrities have an inflated opinion of themselves and are easily tricked by a hungry media into imagining that their extemporized musings are of general interest. The truth, with plenty exceptions of course, is that musicians often have trouble expressing their ideas and that actors, while generally more polite than musicians, are never quite as interesting as the characters they play on screen.

It´s a humbling lesson that many celebrities never learn, but in reality they are often no more interesting than the pizza delivery boy: he holds my attention while he´s delivering the pizza, but I really don´t want to hear his opinions on life, love and the pizza business.

I like interviews when I want to know more about an artist's music. I watched this one last night, it's pretty great. Keiji and I have pretty much the same reaction when people ask us which instruments we play.

Sorry if I seem artistically uneducated, but what the hell is he doing?