Rolling Stone Magazine strikes again
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After the DeadCo retirement rumor leaked on Rolling Stone, with everyone (except Mayer) denying it, now the Taylor Hawkins article has been vilified even by those who were interviewed such as Matt Cameron and Chad Smith, not to mention Foo themselves.
That’s two pretty huge gaffes in less than two months concerning some of the biggest acts that RS covers. I know the quality of RS has been going downhill for a long time already, but these are two pretty big disasters for them in quick succession.
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Link?
Link?
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I read it but oddly cannot
I read it but oddly cannot find it now and there are other subsequent reads with plenty of back-tracking over it though. RS has sadly become just another consumer-thirsty media outlet.
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Clickbait
Clickbait
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Yeah I saw the Taylor Hawkins
Yeah I saw the Taylor Hawkins fall out on Reddit with everyone pulling out their pitch forks and going after the Foo Fighters because according to RS both Matt Cameron and Chad Smith said that Hawkins had asked to leave and couldn't take touring any more and that no one in the Foo Fighters listened.
Our need to blame everyone other than the person who OD'd or commits suicide is just endless. Like Hawkins needed anyone's permission to quit.
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https://www.rollingstone.com
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/taylor-hawkins-foo-fighters-tribute-1347073/
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^Yes, that is the one I read
^Yes, that is the one I read - I just checked the history on my laptop. Thanks.
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The thing for me, the reason
The thing for me, the reason I posted this topic, is more about the way Rolling Stone is again being raked over the coals, first for the DeadCo retirement rumor, and now the Taylor story less than two months later. In both cases, the affected band members or their management, both DeadCo and Foo, are refuting RS and saying, “What the fuck?”
And that just seems like a new low for RS. They’re becoming more and more of a tabloid that has no problem going after the bands and artists they’ve long covered.
I didn’t post this to make any judgment about how Taylor died or whether the band should have given him a break or any of that. I’m more concerned here with the way RS is reporting things like this, and then getting blowback from the musicians themselves. That seems fairly new.
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RS is having fun with the
RS is having fun with the Johnny Depp story too. I haven’t followed the story, it seems pretty fucked up from the little I’ve seen about it. But for sure, Rolling Stone is running an article about it, along the lines of “the total downfall of Johnny Depp” or something of that nature. Again it just seems like RS is sinking to a low level of tabloid journalism. I used to have a lot of respect for the publication. Great musicians used to give “the Rolling Stone Interview,” and it was always something worth reading. Now it just seems like garbage.