Are You People Fucking Serious? : 001 : Jemina Pearl = In Denial.
Alright. I didn’t want it to come down to this. I tried to be nice about the fact that I didn’t much like the Be Your Own Pet album that Universal sent to us. I tried not to be too annoyed by the constant references Jemina Pearl makes lyrically to, well, whatever movie she watched the night before. I even did my best to find a decent reason to not trash their new album in print, right?
But no. I just can’t let this shit go by unnoticed. In an interview given to Pitchfork earlier this week, Jemina Pearl actually got a little upset when the journalist pointed out that the band would be playing this years Warped Tour… and it kinda makes sense. Seriously, this conversation took place:
Pitchfork: Are you guys psyched to play the Warped Tour? It seemed like a weird partnership at first, but it’s kind of perfect for you guys.
JP: No! Oh my God, you’re going to make me kill myself! Warped is perfect for us?
Pitchfork: I mean, in the end, it’s just about having fun and being a teenager, right?
JP: Yeah, I guess. I just associate it with a certain look and a certain style and the kind of kids at school that I thought were– this is really bad, I’m sure– the kind of kids that were dumbasses wearing Rancid t-shirts who thought they knew what punk rock was and threw things at people in the cafeteria.
Uhhhh… I can’t even believe that really happened. Seriously. No, fucking really. Who the hell did you think was gonna buy your albums? Serious fans of experimental post-rock? Way to go, bitch about your core audience while acting like one of them in public all of the time.
Exhibit A (i.e. Don’t bitch about food fights when you kinda glorify them.):
Exhibit B:
from the aforementioned Pitchfork interview:
Jemina Pearl: “We just do the things we like to do– like set things on fire. That’s what we did last night. We set a box on fire on the steps of the venue. It was really fun. We had a bus call at four in the morning, and we were really bored. We didn’t have anything to do, so we set stuff on fire.”
I rest my case.
Jemina? You are the audience you’ll be playing to at the Warped tour. Get over yourself, and you may wanna get a new PR agent that keeps your feet out of your mouth in interviews.