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kaberettIf you are reading this at the time I post it, hi, and I would apologise for putting together an edited highlights list and taking up space on your reading page, but actually I'm not terribly sorry.
If you are reading this FROM THE FUTURE, then it is because I like and respect you and I am sick beyond the telling of it of having my major, legitimate concerns about Amanda Palmer dismissed as sour grapes sparked by that thing she did where she got people to play in her band for free, because guess what, that is so not on the list of things I am angry with her for that it's not even on the same landmass as the aforementioned list.
I further want to clarify that I get liking problematic media. I am okay with liking problematic media (I do it!). What I absolutely cannot handle is being told that I only care about the issues below because she let people play on stage with her. (There are so many bands I would be delighted to play with, I cannot even tell you. That? Really, REALLY not the issue.) No - what I actually care about is the stuff below the cut.
Content notes: rape, racism, ableism, sizeism.
In roughly chronological order:
ETA oh wow, there is more. I'd been blissfully oblivious to the biological essentialism and cissexism, and also to the bit where she appropriated a protest song about police brutality and racism to mark getting out of a record contract. Also, [content notes: addiction, suicide, abuse],
If you are reading this FROM THE FUTURE, then it is because I like and respect you and I am sick beyond the telling of it of having my major, legitimate concerns about Amanda Palmer dismissed as sour grapes sparked by that thing she did where she got people to play in her band for free, because guess what, that is so not on the list of things I am angry with her for that it's not even on the same landmass as the aforementioned list.
I further want to clarify that I get liking problematic media. I am okay with liking problematic media (I do it!). What I absolutely cannot handle is being told that I only care about the issues below because she let people play on stage with her. (There are so many bands I would be delighted to play with, I cannot even tell you. That? Really, REALLY not the issue.) No - what I actually care about is the stuff below the cut.
Content notes: rape, racism, ableism, sizeism.
In roughly chronological order:
- Shit she has actually, genuinely written:
FOOD IN EUROPE
as for food, yes….we’re still hungry.
imagine that. you guys fed us brilliantly the last time around, and now i can’t even imagine not doing this.
we love you and will trade you love and tickets for food. and you can hang out backstage and drink our beer and wine.
if you can bring food to ANY of the shows, please e-mail food (at) amandapalmer (dot) net and we’ll give you instructions.
dessert foods kill us, so please don’t bring us cakes and cookies and evil foods.
last time around in europe, everyone brought cake and chocolate and we got fat.
loving the belly is one thing, but for christs sake, keep us healthy. - She thinks that donating money to the KKK is brilliant irony, if it's proceeds from product placement in a music video.
- She went on Australian TV to laugh about getting "crucified" by "a website of disabled feminists". (Yes, this is about Evelyn Evelyn - and incidentally, Jason Webley recognised that EE was problematic and apologised. Amanda Palmer? Not so much.)
- She simulated raping a Katy Perry look-alike on stage. If you don't want to watch the video, have an open letter.
ETA oh wow, there is more. I'd been blissfully oblivious to the biological essentialism and cissexism, and also to the bit where she appropriated a protest song about police brutality and racism to mark getting out of a record contract. Also, [content notes: addiction, suicide, abuse],
... when her partner, who was a recovering drug addict had a relapse, she faked a suicide attempt to let him know how he made her feel.
A few years later he committed suicide.
She recorded his reaction when he found her, pretending to be dead, and years later she used it on an album.