Jonathan Mannion
I saw rap's Future and it was in a bathtub.
(Jonathan Mannion)
I saw rap's Future and it was in a bathtub.
(Jonathan Mannion)
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Matty Karas, curator November 23, 2015
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If Future does less than three or four songs in a day, it's a bad day for him.
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Would it be too much to ask people to treat each other with a modicum of respect around these parts? No, ADELE is not "dumb and uneducated," no matter how much you may disagree with her decision to withhold her album from streaming services. If anything, your saying that is rather dumb and uneducated, but I'm not going to say it because I don't want to go there, and I wish you didn't either. And no, we do not need to "f*** [U2] forever" simply because they didn't run out and busk on the streets of PARIS last week after their arena gig was canceled for reasons that I believe are obvious to all of us. Criticizing artists for what they don't do is always a little weird; I find it more constructive and helpful to engage with what they do do. But in either case, there's no need to be ugly and hateful about it. I spend enough time on the INTERNET, and watching presidential debates, to know how coarse our pubic dialog has become. But just because they do it, doesn’t mean you should do it. It's cheap, it's hurtful and it diminishes us all... And if you really need to express your deep inner rage, maybe you should pick your targets better and/or grow a sense of humor. I think we can all agree that this works... You can buy the MP3 version of ADELE's "25" from AMAZON for $10.99. Or you can buy the CD for $9.97 and they'll throw in the MP3s for free. Which I guess is the music biz equivalent of charging twice as much for a flight from MONTREAL to CHICAGO as it costs to fly from MONTREAL to CHICAGO to MILWAUKEE... For the .001 percent of you who don't own "THRILLER," GOOGLE PLAY is giving it away this week. No strings attached as far as I can tell.

Matty Karas, curator

November 23, 2015