That one’s fair. I’ll say it wasn’t lame for early punk because their ethos was destroying what came before. But even in punk it became rote and lame after awhile.
The guitar smash was fun and silly and unimportant and also incredibly on brand for phoebe. We don't have to turn everything into Discourse folks.
Upon first watch I thought the smashing was a schtick like she was failing to break it on purpose and the monitor was like a rigged pyro deal..but now that I’m not watching it at like 6am I honestly can’t tell lol. edit: regardless, fuck anyone talking shit about her on Twitter today about it.
Yeah SNL’s writing is way more offensive than anything Phoebe did. That opening sketch, the bar musical, the wedding, good god. The show completely mails it in every single week.
Phoebe has always felt like she is in the lineage of classic rock/90s alt-rock radio as much as anything else to me. It’s hard to explain why. Maybe not even musically, but just in terms of the aesthetics around her music. Her smashing a guitar on SNL feels completely in line with that to me.
The lesson to be learned here is “do awesome covers of people because then they will ride or die for you”. Now I need Johnny Rzeznik to swing into action.
I haven’t seen anyone in here make this argument but the people who are saying she could’ve donated the guitar to a child or whatever need to go outside
She's been using this drum skin for months, I dont think she gives a shit whether dweebs on the internet think she "pulled off" the smash lol