You can take semi-literate gossip site TMZ’s latest “‘Memba Him?,” which is about the former lead singer of popular “alternative/emo/indie” band the Smiths, in one of two ways: One, TMZ assumes that its readership is so Idiocratic that it’s only able to identify members of the axis of celebrities who regularly appear on the site’s radar, forgetting about anyone who may fall off it for more than a day; or two, indie kids really are cut off from the rest of society and living in their own universe. Not that I’m saying that being off the radar of AOL’s cash cow/sign of the apocalypse is a bad thing, mind you. [TMZ]
April 15th, 2008 // 12 Comments
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Also I just want to say that I was only over there for American Idol spoilers.
at least all the comments on the TMZ story are variants of “screw you TMZ, he’s the bestest!”
TMZ is really beating their “LOL ppl get old!1!” meme into the ground, aren’t they?
One, TMZ assumes that its readership is so Idiocratic that it’s only able to identify members of the axis of celebrities who regularly appear on the site’s radar, forgetting about anyone who may fall off it for more than a day; or two, indie kids really are cut off from the rest of society and living in their own universe.
The correct answer is A.
@Nicolars: if only tmz could beat itself into the ground.
He has a huge Latino fan base? Is that code for something?
Ugh. This reminds me of when People magazine referred to The Police as “Sting’s old band.” Seriously!
But on the whole, I don’t think there’s much overlap between TMZ and Smiths fans.
Who is this “Morrissey” that you speak of, TMZ? Is he… a fancy lad?
i’m sure there must be *some* tortuous way of linking teh smythes to emo?
@jposnan: No really, it isn’t! The Mexicans love, love, love Morrissey. He’s like, a long-lost mariachi.
“BPI, MTV, TMZ
Please them, please them
Sadly, this was your life
But you could have said no if you wanted to
You could have said no, couldn’t you?”
@Varina: Morrisey is more of a Perez Hilton kind of guy anyway…