TMR: Lizzo Shouldn't Feel Too Bad (They Even Went Bananas At Apple)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Politics Today noticed something happening in the world that, I'm sure, will be a shock to TMR readers. And no, it's not that Lizzo's making her back-up dancers eat bananas. 

Here it is:

"Cults Continue to Cause Death in the 21st Century"

I know, I know [slaps forehead] you can't believe it. [Slaps forehead again] Neither can I. What happens in this big ol' homeopathic world of ours boggles the mind.

I mean, sure, you hear about the occasional psychic offering remote healing who removes her advertisement after complaints from sceptics, but, mostly, what you see is a world rewarding people for becoming little tyrants, which is how the we end up with so many cult leaders to begin with. When given the chance, some people just can't resist telling other people what to do. And, when given the chance, some people just can't resist doing as they're told.

So, people want to know, has Miley Cyrus joined a cult? I can't say. A member of Fleetwood Mac did, and they're all into gender pseudoscience and the erasure of parental boundaries, so maybe there might be something to it. 

Amid Indian nationalism, pseudoscience seeped into academia like yoga took over American progressives, just before they started acting like fascists, too. Connection? You be the judge.

All I know is, a self-proclaimed psychic recently got more than 9 years in a twisted $1 million scam, and people are still asking if they're real? Fuck yea,h they're real: Real enough to take your shit.

And, in the NewAge, that just might mean your life.

 

Miley Cyrus: Coronavirus (That's All I'm Sayin')

If it’s truly possible we’ve been infected with the Coronavirus for the last 6 weeks, then we’ve got a much bigger problem on our hands than we ever anticipated.

Well, not “we” exactly, since anyone “cancelled” is also almost-automatically safe.

This one’s only for the popular kids - again. 

Sooo, if you're like me, and The NewAge Movement has been making you ill with warnings to, for instance, eat a certain way “to live longer” and all you thought was “I don’t want to 'live longer' with these dickless assholes” then rejoice: 

They’re all gonna die, and you’re gonna have the planet to your cool-ass self, with all the other cool-ass people, more like you. 

Just let it get around a little bit, like a certain you-know-who,…

Whites Defending Themselves Using Black Vernacular

It's almost like whites have no culture of their own, developing ideas:

Miley Cyrus tells Ronan Farrow those who call her racist are “haters”

They just bite from black culture and bask in the light:

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter reveals how the 'brouhaha' led to Gwyneth, 41, phoning him in October and asking how to get the 'haters' on her side - to which he joked 'put on 15 pounds'.

It's embarrassing,...

Stand-In For Doing As I'm Told: Telling You What To Do

Keep in mind that, not only is Rolling Stone asking Henry Rollins about two acts TMR has already slammed, but two acts that dominated American media this year - art, it was not:

What does Henry think of Daft Punk or “Blurred Lines”?

“I’ve never heard Daft Punk; I’ve never heard a track of theirs in my life. They’re the two guys with motorcycle helmets on? You know what, you will take this any way you will. That to me is like Rolling Stone music. It’s the sh-t that’s in your magazine. And it’s like, that world … I’m so glad that you all have found your people, but that world is so alienating to me. Anything that gets on the Grammys or the American Music Awards … like, was Miley Cyrus on the cover of your magazine? Yeah, see, I like real music. John Coltrane’s my favorite musician, what am I doing reading Rolling Stone? You know what I mean?”

It's easy to envision a kind of artistic Underground Railroad.

Henry doesn’t “give a sh-t” about Miley:

“I don’t. She’s part of that bigger world of music I was just talking about. All of it to me is like, long may it wave, I don’t have anything against anyone doing their thing, but it’s just not for me. And Robin Thicke, is that the guy? I have no idea what he sounds like. I’ve never heard Kelly Clarkson, I just, I live in a different musical world.”

Life, under the Boomer's Cultural Revolution Prohibition.

"One of the great myths always wielded out in arguments like this is that it’s all about the music man. Pure hippy bollocks of course, and the type of stuff revivalists always cling to like the fringes on their wet moss haircuts. That’s half the problem of course. Today’s music scene is full of revivalists,…these artists are so reverential of the past they daren’t make claims to a grand future and certainly not one to upset their ancient heroes. It’s temperance on a grand scale.”

Some Thoughts While Looking At Drudge In The Mourn

Two American blacks showing violent paranoia - is anyone going to seriously address this?

"Boy, do we miss you," a fan called out after the crowd chanted "43, 43" when he was introduced.

 To the Dems and Republicans who hated George W. Bush, didn't I tell you this would happen?

'Molly' Cyrus Goes Raunchy and Topless... and should be told her "career" is now suspended until she gets some sense.

The new NBC series, titled Space Race, is done with Branson’s Virgin Galactic, advertised as the world’s first commercial spaceline. The premise is the same — everyday people compete for a trip into space — in this case on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.

 I ain't competing for shit - I deserve a trip out of this madhouse.

This new Pope ain't perfect but, I'll be damned, he's the shit.

Next You'll Be Trying To Say Varicose Veins Are Sexy

Alright, white people, stop crying - I admit it:

 Miley Cyrus caught me.

'I'm 108lbs, I know my ass is flat!'

So now, let's move to who her voice sounds like,...

It's Intimacy (With A Belief) That Can Leave You Alone

I guess this explains Cher's bed-hopping a little better:

"Everyone's curious about Tom and Scientology but he wasn't a Scientologist when we were together, he was just Tom. 

Sonny was into Scientology for a bit but not me. I've no interest in Scientology whatsoever. They're crazies."

I'm tempted to say "takes one to know one" but, after this (and her recent statements on Miley Cyrus) Cher's still not "that far gone" - yet,...

I Think We'll All Be Cutting Out At About The Same Time

“It is a gross mistake to suppose that self-esteem is always a good quality, the more of it the better.”

- THEODORE DALRYMPLE 

 That quote's from a child-killing story I needed to brush up on, as I'd let it slip by with just a glance before, and felt a bit guilty. 

God, I'm glad I'm not a hippie. I've just had to live with them, in the destruction of their wake. That's been enough. 

I've learned how to laugh about it. 6 kids dead so a fool could "feel good about himself"? ♬It's getting better all the time!♪

So, that said, can we get to the nude photo spread of Miley Cyrus already? Isn't that where this is all leading? Isn't the gradual push, push, push, just extended foreplay for television to graduate into the equivalent of a 24 hour porn booth? You see any other "artistic barriers" being broken? Even attempted to be broken? Well let's get on with it then. You're "liberated," baby - Madonna said so - now show me your tits.

There goes my gag reflex. Unfortunately, it's usually triggered by things other people insist on me watching, like the selling of Barack Obama. 

We HAD to have him, too, remember? He was the fulfillment of,...something. The editor of Newsweek said he was a god. People shot guns in my neighborhood when he got elected. Meanwhile, I was hunkered over the toilet, because I share a planet with anyone so stupid. That's how I've spent a lot of my life. Shoot, who am I kidding - it's become real life:

One long session, staring at porcelain, giving it up,...

 

The Girl's Got A Point (Though It's Still Not A Good One)

Miley wants to be all "In your face, baby!" but, poor baby, it was already in our faces:

'I Made History'

Yes Dear, we know, you're hot to trot,...

Simon Cowell's Having A Baby With Another Man's Wife (So, That Means, Criticism Stops At Judging Ourselves)

Pop is suffering from the same malady as the art world, which is stuck on the tired old rubric that shock automatically confers value. But those once powerful avant-garde gestures have lost their relevance in our diffuse and technology-saturated era, when there is no longer an ossified high-culture establishment to rebel against. On the contrary, the fine arts are alarmingly distant or marginal to most young people today.

Unfortunately, the media spotlight so cheaply won by Cyrus will inevitably spur repeats of her silly stunt, by her and others. Image and profile now rule the music industry. At a time when profits are coming far more from touring than from CD sales, performers are being hammered too early into a marketable formula for cavernous sports venues. With their massive computerized lighting and special-effects systems, arena shows make improvisation impossible and stifle the natural rapport with the audience that performers once had in vaudeville houses and jazz clubs. There is neither time nor space to develop emotional depth or creative skills. 

Pop is an artistic tradition that deserves as much respect as any other. Its lineage stretches back to 17th century Appalachian folk songs and African-American blues, all of which can still be heard vibrating in the lyrics and chord structure of contemporary music. But our most visible young performers, consumed with packaging and attitude, seem to have little sense of that thrilling continuity and therefore no confidence in how it can define and sustain their artistic identities over the course of a career.

I think the phrase that pays nowadays is "unsustainable".

I love when Boomers pretend that - after their kids witnessed their antics - they now have no idea where any of this is coming from.

But - they also assure us - there's nothing that can be done.

It's just so neat and tidy,...