As the New Pornographers’ newness ends, their fans seem to grow more irritating. Confidential to Rob Mitchum: brace yourself for some ridiculous hatemail. [NB: Mitchum’s dig on Electric Version really captured how betrayed I felt by that album…and every last blogger falling over itself to congratulate New Pornographers for repeating history. They didn’t. Nice songs, though. Then again, I fell in love with Mass Romantic and that first tour, which pretty much ruined all but a few moments subsequently.]
As an aside, that New Pornographers thread from ILX points up everything that’s changed about the message board since I first found my way to it ca. ’04. Three years later there’s no one jumping in to set the record straight, except my old Stylus colleague, Mr. Alfred Soto. Thanks for that.
One response to “The laws have changed.”
Ha! Thanks, bro. I’d no idea I said anything significant!