Note to rock stars: Sexually manipulating 15-year-old girls, asking them to send you nude pics and making them watch you masturbate on SKYPE is not cool, has never been cool and never will be cool. It doesn't matter what you might have learned from the 1960s and '70s. It just doesn't. The newest rock star to be accused of horrible behavior—that's the nicest way I can put it—is singer JESSE LACEY, who has now made sure that his band BRAND NEW's grass-roots rise to the top of the BILLBOARD charts in 2017 is not what it will be remembered for. Adventurous aesthetic vision? Nope, not that either. Lacey was publicly accused of sexual predation by a former fan who posted at length on FACEBOOK, using her name, in response to one of the band's former guitar techs publicly asking, "So while we are on the topic of outing famous and semi-famous creeps, anyone want to speak up about Jesse Lacey?" Supplemental note to rock stars: That is not the reputation you want to cultivate. Lacey apologized in a lengthy post of his own in which he didn't respond to the specific accusation but acknowledged he had "caused pain and harm to a number of people" and "I need to earn forgiveness." There will be more to come, soon, and I don't mean from Brand New or Jesse Lacey. This is a reckoning, a long time coming. Quote of the week, from CECILY STRONG, playing a new character, CLAIRE FROM H.R., on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. "I'm sure I'll be back next week and the week after that forever and ever, because all of this isn't just a scandal. It didn't just start this week. It's just actual reality for half of the population"... If you're ELVIS COSTELLO singing in a HOLLYWOOD lounge 30 feet away from me on a random Sunday afternoon, this Sunday afternoon for example, I am really happy you're not lip-syncing. That would be weird. Also, that song, "YOU SHOULDN'T LOOK AT ME THAT WAY," written for PAUL MCGUIGAN's true-life tearjerker FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL, is fantastic. If, on the other hand, you're TAYLOR SWIFT (did she or didn't she?) or GARTH BROOKS (he did) doing a set piece on national television, I'm a little less concerned with the authenticity of the liveness of the performance. Did Swift's backing-track-aided "...READY FOR IT" on SNL undercut what that L stands for, or was it a postmodern comment on the idea that in any given pop or rock or hip-hop or whatever performance, there's always a chance that something isn't completely live? Maybe part of the vocal, maybe a drum track, maybe a keyboard bit, maybe everything, who knows. If you wanted live and raw Taylor Swift, she came back a few commercials later with an acoustic performance of "CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT." No faking that one, right? Which did you prefer? Brooks lost his voice before last week's CMAs, owned up immediately to his lip-sync and quickly had MIRANDA LAMBERT and BLAKE SHELTON choosing sides. Is lip-syncing a bigger crime in the country-music heartland? Is it more forgivable coming from one of country's undisputed kings? What happens when artificial intelligence starts taking over? What will the L mean then?... RIP FRED COLE of DEAD MOON and PIERCED ARROWS; CHUCK MOSLEY of FAITH NO MORE (and, briefly, BAD BRAINS); ROBERT DE CORMIER, and KATIE LEE.