WaPo Music Critic: Playing 'Lyin' A** B*tch' to Intro Bachmann Shows The Roots Are 'Artists'
In a glowing review of The Roots' new album "undun," Washington Post music critic Chris Richards lamented it was "too bad" that the band's choice of Fishbone's "Lyin' A** B*tch" to introduce Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on the November 21 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will likely be "the one song" that the band will "be remembered for" most in 2011.
"The band considered it a joke. Certain corners of the media considered it an outrage," Richards noted (emphasis mine):
But regardless of whether the decision was in poor taste, it underscored a bigger point about the Roots: The band members might spend their work week taking Jimmy in and out of commercial, but they've never stopped thinking of themselves as artists.
After praising The Roots for their work in "undun," Richards gushed that the band "have inarguably made television a better place for music, while life on television has inarguably made the Roots a better band."
"Let's hope they never quit their day job. Or get fired," Richards concluded his December 6 review.
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I wonder what the band's fate would be...
If they riffed Queen's "Fat Bottom Girls" for Dear Leader's wife...
"The band considered it a joke."
The only joke is those loosers. Just look at them!
I just wanted to add to my
I just wanted to add to my previously stated opinion, although it wasn't on this blog.
After hearing about what occurred on the Fallon's show, I felt that the band should be fired and the show cancelled, now I'll add, this so-called music critic should be fired for cowardice, stupidity and incompetence. His serious mistakes 1) Calling that whatever it is a song, 2) Second referring to this band as artists, 3) I'll give him some slack here, he may believe what he wrote and that would make him stupid and incompetent or, the more likely he's being deliberately obtuse, in which case he's a liar and a coward which is worse.
What a no class zero Fallon is, not worth saying anymore about him.
"The band considered it a
"The band considered it a joke."
The standard lefty answer whenever they are exposed as the hate mongers they are.
"The band is considered a
"The band is considered a joke".
.."but they never stopped thinking of themselves as a**holes"
That's what a good editor would do for the author.
The "artist" thing is the worst smokescreen ever.
Any raving psychotic committing an act of violence could then use the excuse of being a "performance artist" under the standard that bunch of animals just tried to create. No sale.
Kulture Klub?
Ahrteest, you say?
That little musical number displayed about as much "artistic flair" as would singing the 1963 wonder-song "It's a Gas" by Alfred E. Newman with added armpit farts performed by a shirtless Michael Moore. (Apologies for the eye/headache that mental image might provoke!)
Most pre-pubescent males would probably agree.
Or self-important/righteous Lib Dems, but there I go, repeating myself.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Kulture Klub
My God man! I was eating when I read this!
I am not sure that the image that provokes is forgivable.
You may have damned yourself to a eternity of watching reruns of lavern and shirley
When a "tv band" is EVER to be considered as "artists"
When a "tv band" is EVER to be considered as "artists", Unicorns will fart rainbows. Sorry, but Fishbone was last relevent in 1993. Who cares.
Fishbone
Before this I had only ever heard of Fishbone via the Last Action Hero soundtrack, which featured the song "Swim". And yep, that was back in 1993.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Good minds think alike, unsane!
I saw Fishbone, yep you guessed it, back in 1993 at Lollapallooza. They sucked. Dinosaur Jr. was better, and that isn't saying much because I hated Dinosaur Jr..
It's a joke?
So play it when Michelle comes on with her big caboose.
I dare ya'.
I double dog dare ya'.
Obvious question: Why are the creeps still employed by NBC?
Nauseating. If this had been done to anyone other than a Republican, the band would have been cut loose the next day. Zero repercussions. No suspension. No public admonishment. Nothing.
Obvious answer
We are talking about NBC here. This is the network that is the National Barack channel and its bastard redheaded stepchild network M.S.S.R. (MSLSD) is the place where they want you to lean forward and take it in the rear. Oh, and that is where Chris Matthews admits whenever Barack speaks he creams his shorts.
Some ideas
Tune out and let them and advertisers know why you are tuning out, hitting them where it hurts...
Oh, and I seem to recall that Mr. Fallon is doing adverts for somebody out there too...
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Music "Critic" or liberal hack?
Chris Richards, the esteemed "music critic" of the WaPoop is nothing but a screaming smackoff who would be swallowing his tongue had the "artists" done this to Nanny Boo, Billary, or some other progressive skag. His words about the band were so thought-provoking and heart-felt..............pardon me while I go gag.
Just out of curiosity...which
Just out of curiosity...which member of the group Roots is Kunta Kinta and who is Toby?