How else does it explain his popularity, when the driving force of the Smiths is Johnny Marr???

FunkyJ

For the record: KRISTEENYOUNG are Kristeen Young (piano) Baby Jeff White (drums; there's a reason why the band is named after the frontwoman, but I shall resist the urge to go on). They have been around for a decade or so in St. Louis and New York, and play a sort of aggressive post-opera electronica with weird, often feminist, usually purposely strident and sarcastic lyrics. Both members are part Native American and seem pretty invested in that, and "deliberately annoying" has been a self-descriptor.

In other words, they're an art band, and one of which Morrissey was an aggressive fan until Wednesday. His hardline fans, conversely, notoriously disliked them.

...And so this made Idolator (as I've just found out after breathing a sigh of relief: "oh, God, good, time to check Idolator rather than Represent The KRISTEENYOUNG Fans any longer"). But joy: it looks like atop her other woes, Kristeen is about to become best-known as the woman who got kicked off the Morrissey tour for making a joke about oral sex. Hence my little blurb. I felt someone, somewhere in this story, should mention what the band actually sounds like.

Spondee

Dick Laurent is dead.

Sniffle

Just as with Christ, who was despised and threatened with death from the first moment of his public tenure, you Pharisees have gotten her on a technicality.

One better than even the civil rights Oink rant, I think.

Ned Raggett

majormike

Diglett

Ned Raggett

Dead Air ummm Dead Air

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