It's All About Me, Man: [ItsAllAboutMeMan] Flavorpill opposes free speech and self-expression

Sunday, November 27, 2011

[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Flavorpill opposes free speech and self-expression

My friend Ross C. Shoenberg wrote the following response to Flavorpill's weak article (more context below):

The only cool list that matters to me is my own. I think everybody should have the same attitude (about their cool list, not mine). However, having said that, I'd like to add that The Mystic Knights of the Ooga Chakka should be on everybody's list. When I listen to them, my third nostril opens, my feet start to smell like potpourri, and chicks really start digging me.

But they would not let him publish the most important part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWHfbryRIqE

Once people hear this, they won't go back to the stinky NME approved junk.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Flavorpill <no-reply@flavorpill.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Subject: Artists who really should have made NME's 2011 Cool List
To: mattlove1@earthlink.net

Music

Artists Who Really Should Have Made NME's Cool List

So the NME just published their 2011 Cool List. As ever, it's a bewildering document that proclaims the likes of the Killers' Ronnie Vanucci, the Arctic Monkeys' drummer and, yes, Lana Del Rey to be cool, which makes us wonder if the NME's writers have the same understanding of that particular word as we do. Anyway, we appreciate that setting yourself as arbiters of "cool" is asking for trouble (especially if you then proceed to include two members of Kasabian in your Top 10), but the fact remains: there are some people missing from the NME's list who we think should be there. We're not sure if this makes these people "cool" or just generally awesome, but either way, here are 10 non-NME-approved musicians who we think were just great during 2011. Read more »

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