St. Vincent - Daddy's Home (May 14, 2021) Album • Page 9

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The drama is way more interesting than the interview itself.
In the end I think both parties acted poorly. First off, I don't think the journalist should have published the article (and the proceeding drama). You can kinda pick up Annie's vibe in the interview, for all we know she might've been incredibly nervous about speaking with McCartney right after and her head wasnt in it. But on the flip side, if her and her team wanted the article killed they should've offered a kill fee, or even an opportunity to re-do it.

 

I read the whole thing this morning, surprised to see how it’s developed. It really didn’t even come off as a bad interview for Annie.

I mean, she came off a lot worse in that interview she did with Alexandra Pollard a few years back. If this is the threshold, I’m surprised that one made it out.

 

this is the most boring controversy ever

 

This is the strangest headline wtf

Maybe a Reason Why Singer St. Vincent Has No Career After 14 Years: Today She Killed a Magazine Interview

 

Lol what a stupid article, Jesus Christ

 

the interview being killed is somehow not the dumbest thing about all this now, OK

 

please leave the king out of this mess

 

Indie rock!

 

I’ll be honest. I do think the line of questioning in that interview was a little suspect.

 

It is

 

now this, is pure humor

 

Wow she seems super annoying to talk to from that interview.

 

welcome to the chorus.fm message board where if anyone can find anything to bring down any artist it will be posted and dissected ad naseum!

 

...right

 

lol this hardly is some discussion manufactured on this website, fucking dork

 

Discussing how wealthy and famous people exert their influence is pretty messed up, imo

 

Eh, the album's got some pretty obvious personal and political jumping off points and she took a stab at them. Seems like the journalist tried to move on when asked. What was the issue?

 

Oh childish name calling on an internet message board always a classic

 

Except this controversy is being discussed on like... many social medias and any indie-y music related places. There's many problems with chorus.fm but you're choosing the wrong occasion to voice it.

I agree with your second post though.

 

I guess I don’t follow enough sites/boards..,and don’t want to debate the point....to me it’s not an issue....but if it is for others that’s ok

 

I don’t think an artist should always get to dictate where the interview goes....but we also don’t get to project on to an artist how we believe they should behave towards what are imo pretty personal questions. Yes her record is called “Daddy’s Home”, and maybe the PR went a different way than what she wanted and she’s frustrated with the line of questioning. She’s also a human being regardless of star power and I think she was dropping numerous hints even just by reading the transcript that she didn’t want to talk about it in a certain way. I was with Annie when she told the interviewer she was being presumptuous and I was with her when she basically said she doesn’t need to express her opinions on prison abolition just because her father was in jail. Annie Clark also shouldn’t be making interviewers sit in pink boxes, that too is dehumanizing and absurd.

 

It's absolutely the artist's right to tell the interviewer she's being presumptuous, but it's also the interviewer's right to ask probing questions that are connected to the art. I found nothing that the influencer asked to be out of bounds thematically. The flow of conversation was stilted, but that's bound to happen sometimes when you're (a) interviewing over a Zoom call and (b) talking with an artist who clearly dislikes doing press in the first place. If the artist doesn't want to talk about something, it's her team's job to let interviewers know that up front. But to call a record Daddy's Home and then shut down an interview from being published when someone asks you questions about it that you don't like? Come on. It's not like the interviewer was asking "is your father a bad person?" A third of these are softballs.

I guess I would have rather the outcome been a more combative interview where the artist actually explained what she did and didn't want to talk about rather than some behind-the-scenes mechanations.