Thursday, February 18, 2010
Cream / Hot Goss / National Skyline Kings of Leon Dote on The Features to NME. Followill: 'I'm Not Just Stroking Their Pole'
Posted by D Patrick Rodgers on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM
"Me and Matt had a Lou Reed and David Bowie mutual appreciation thing going on -- we fell in love over that. I don't want to tell you how we consummated our love." "I'm not just stroking their pole." " ... if you do that, you're a man in my eyes, and these guys are men." " ... if I'm at a party and there are six gorgeous six-foot women there, I don't want to talk to them. ... Then we all go and hang out with some gorgeous four-foot women." "Well, I think I would hate us if I wasn't in this band." " ... people will do this (makes face) across a bar, but I'm just like this (flips bird) and that's that." "Did I feel sorry for them that they didn't have some old motherfucker telling them how to write songs anymore? Hell no." "Matt, you should know that your next record has got to have a version of 'Ice Ice Baby' on it." "I'm nobody's fucking boss." "Everyone can kiss my fucking ass." "You know what that guy does now? He fixes the fence on my farm."(HT: WOTT.)
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Fucking awesome. I never liked anything but Aha Shake Heartbreak but KOL've got enough goodwill in the bank with me now that I might try and give some of the other ones a chance. Hopefully, The Features are reaching a karmic tipping point, and they're this close to getting all the love (and the NME cover) they've so long deserved.
It's like this article was tailor made for the Cream: The Features, a Followill kinda making an ass of himself, a reference to the always popular "not just country in Nashville" gripe. But, typically, the Cream stacks the deck and ignores the portion about the Nashville haters. That's where some context would have been nice. Followill comes across as a prick, and those quotes are absurd both in and out of context, but maybe the most interesting thing about the interview, at least from a Nashville perspective, is Pelham's defense of Kings. "People should be more grateful for what they've done for Nashville."
This is like home base for the local KoL hate. When they talk about how KoL catches shit from people in Nashville, you're the people they're talking about. So if you're going to pull quotes from the article, those should be the ones you go for first. And then maybe respond. Disagree with Pelham? Think the only decent thing they've done is sign the Features? Say so, and explain why.
And I'm not some butthurt fan that got here via a google alert or something. I don't like KoL. I didn't like the earlier albums when they were just an inoffensively lame southern rock band, and their shit's even worse since they've gone all "epic" stadium rock.
For those that have stomached 102.9 The Buzz as of late they've been making it a point to play audio of an interview with KOL about how they never get airplay in Nashville, at which point The Buzz then plays KOL (I'm guessing the latest song being promoted up the charts).
Curious, does anyone know why Vector Management had the video pulled? Wonder if they made a DMCA claim... anything in the video they could use to make that claim? If not, I'm sure the EFF would be interested to hear about another bogus DMCA claim.
I like the part about being mean to his old boss. I also like that Poison video where the guy washing dishes kicks the kitchen door open and all of a sudden Poison is rocking really hard and changing guitars mid-verse. Was that the one filmed at Municipal?
I wonder if Poison tried to help any bands out.
Valid points, anon. Though Pelham doesn't defend the merits of the music itself by any means, he points out that KoL have gotten Nashville on the (inter)national rock 'n' roll radar. As far as the stable of Kings of Leon haters goes, you'll find that I'm far from being president of the club. I was never offended by the music one way or another, though lots of people claim the first record is worth a listen (I've been meaning to get around to checking it out for a long time, and perhaps I have no excuse to put that off any further). I digress.
Anyhow, I can't say signing The Features is the "only valid thing they've done," seeing as how I've never listened to any of KoL's material past their ubiquitous handful of singles and wouldn't have given them a great deal of thought were they not from my hometown. I thought the heart of this story was what I pointed to: The Features are in NME, and the Followills deserve a hat-tip for getting them there ... and Caleb said some funny shit. Pelham didn't exactly praise their artistic merit or talk about the music itself at all, so I left that bit for folks to read themselves. I've always thought a non-country No. 1 hit from Nashville is a good thing for all of us, and this story is certainly evidence of that.
I want to vomit every time I hear a Kings of Leon song. This shit is so generic and formulated it's silly. I've never understood why people like this music or why it gets any attention. It's even more sickening that they drop Lou Reed's name like he was influence on their formulated soft rock music. Fuck that shit! The fact that this dude keeps whining about not getting respect from Nashville is as fucking laughable like the shit he cowrites with his producer.
I'm 5ft 3in. I wonder if Caleb would talk to me.
I did get here via a google alert because I would never even know Nashville existed if it wasn’t for KOL.
I like that Caleb seems to offend so may people with is sense of humour. He inspires envy in people.
Jane, I'm so glad you discovered Nashville. Your comments never fail to entertain.
However, I don't particularly want to delve into the implications of "discovering" Nashville via KoL. I'm sure you were joking. Please be joking.
the dude.. snee.. gave me a pre-release of their first record during a break up-find a new gurly-gurly girl stage of my life. that shit got me mad poon. or maybe it was squeeze?
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