Of all the stories I've covered this year, the condemnation of Tyler, the Creator has interested me more. And not simply because Goblin is my fave album of the year but also because I believe in freedom of speech.
or at least thought -speech, is a variation on thought. And I am free to imagine the most terrible things in the world and, if i chose to, singing about it. I want to sing about getting every woman over 60 in a row and shooting them dead before raping there bloody carcusses. And so what?
All I have is these thoughts, and they are neither good nor bad. There is nothing better about wishing for a world without hnger than imagining a world wihout hunger because all the asians have been nuked. It is the same meaningless shit.
"Kill people, fuck shit, burn schoool". sings Tyler. If this is a meme it is the weakest meme imaginable. If the concept catches on, Tyler has every right to say don't look at me.
If you watch a murderer on TV and then commit murder, how is the TV actor responsible?
I want you to get a knife and stab your children in the heart.
Go on
do it.
I want you to fuck your Mom up the ass with a broom.