Join the backlash: Gnarls Barkley

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• Devin
  Mon 06/19/06 8:44 PM

  Um… no.

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• JobeR
  Mon 06/19/06 8:55 PM

  I’m still with them. As long as the music’s still good, they can play whatever games they want with the media.

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• Josh
  Mon 06/19/06 9:15 PM

  I love the magazine’s new “Spotlight” feature, too bad popwatch decides it’d rather go the negative route.

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• Greg Angelo
  Mon 06/19/06 9:19 PM

  From a journalistic standpoint, you cannot fail when you stay focused on what counts. Your post notwithstanding, it’s the music, stupid.
  Operating as a coolness arbiter with a trigger finger on a stopwatch, waiting for the right moment to kill a trend, is tiresome.
  Stick with what is important, please. I won’t be “with you” until Gnarls Barkley gives me a musical reason to chuck them.

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• Scotto
  Mon 06/19/06 9:20 PM

  All I know is I keep playing that record. A lot.

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• ben
  Mon 06/19/06 9:22 PM

  the hot new thing in the media these days is to lead the backlash against actors/musicians/anybodies with nothing substantive to back up their claims other than the claim that “it’s time.” packaged with it, of course, is the concession that their work is still good or relevant, while the writer swiftly ignores that this fact might render their argument completely meaningless. i would hope ew would be above such pettiness, but obviously not.

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• Tom Brazelton
  Mon 06/19/06 9:23 PM

  Wow, I think that’s the fastes build-up and tear-down of an artist in Entertainment Weekly history.
  It’s pretty transparent when you guys pull this kind of stuff. You try to stay ahead of the trends by dictating what’s new and exciting and what’s over.
  I remember when you guys were trumpeting Everyone Loves Raymond for years. Pleading with readers “Why isn’t anyone watching this?” And then in it’s last two seasons, totally turning on them and telling them to give it up.
  Weak.

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• EP Sato
  Mon 06/19/06 9:27 PM

  Susman, you wouldn’t be dissing on Dangermouse if you heard the work he’s done with the Gorilaz or MF Doom (Dangerdoom, the Adult Swim Tribute Album). Dude’s got talent, and is doing it with his own oddball style.
  I’ll start hating on them when they do their first Burger King commercial. Like Hootie.

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• Ned
  Mon 06/19/06 9:33 PM

  Folks, methinks you need to lighten up — you’re all missing the irony in Gary’s piece. I took his intent here as providing a piece of humor, not serious entertainment news/analysis. He’s making fun of both Gnarls Barkley and the NYT magazine — and based on their respective pretentions, I think they they both deserve it.

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• Paul U.
  Mon 06/19/06 9:36 PM

  two words- P.M. Dawn

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• Stephaie Travitsky
  Mon 06/19/06 9:44 PM

  More like P.U. Dawn

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• nathan
  Mon 06/19/06 9:48 PM

  Did you catch Cee-lo in bed with your wife or something?
  I don’t see any reason to stop liking them for the reasons listed. I’ll stop liking them when the music turns to crap.

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• ADAM
  Mon 06/19/06 9:52 PM

  You’re suggesting we boycott good music because… the singers have an ego???
  While you’re at it, please remove CDs by these artists from your collection: Guns N Roses, The Beatles, Oasis, Madonna, Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, The Who ….in fact, through away all the CDs that aren’t of local bands who recorded in their basement or garage.
  These guys are funny, have a great resume, and have the song of the summer. And unless you’re a superficial nimrod, it should about the music.

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• cj
  Mon 06/19/06 9:56 PM

  no

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• Dan
  Mon 06/19/06 9:58 PM

  Yeah, so when John Lennon said “We’re bigger than Jesus.” we should not like the Beatles because he praised his work and his popularity?

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