So the Kid Rock content on Idolator has been a little out of control this week, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t note his freak-out on the predictability of journalists who interview him (presumably the ones who he feels comfortable enough to get freaky in front of are exempt from this charge) in a recent question-and-answer session with Entertainment Weekly scribe Chris Willman:

To give people a teaser of the album, I’ll ask you about three very different songs: ”Amen,” ”All Summer Long,” and ”Half Your Age.”
[Editor's note: This last song, a honky-tonk ballad that closes the album, features the chorus line ''She's twice as hot and half your age.'' The lyrics have been widely construed to be unfavorably comparing his ex-wife, Pamela Anderson, to his new girlfriend, supermodel May Andersen.]
It’s funny. Every interview I do, I can tell you what the people are gonna say. They’re gonna talk about the record; about five questions down, they’re gonna ask something silly; about eight questions down, they’re gonna try to ask me about Pamela. It’s so f—in’ cookie cutter, it’s almost hilarious. Because everyone is supposed to be so creative and have these innovative magazines and want to be great writers and do things in their own way, yet they’re all the same — on down the line, every single one of ‘em. And I know the editors tell ‘em all to do it. [Breaking into an imitation of a journalist.] ”I didn’t come up with the questions, dude. I gotta ask you about it, though.” Do you really? Well, that’s fun. You sound like a disc jockey nowadays: ”I don’t play what I want, I’m told what to do.” It doesn’t sound like something you go to school for and be creative. Anyway, go ahead.

Unfortunately, Willman’s follow-up question wasn’t “What was up with the DJ crack? Are you that dumb that you can’t see through the excuses radio employees give you when you ask them why they aren’t spinning ‘So Hottt’?”–which may, in fact, inadvertently prove Rock’s point! Damn him.

Kid Rock: Anger Management [EW, via The Set List]