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 A Very Special Announcement From R.E.M.Posted on Mar 22, 2008
Veteran rocker and self-described “queer artist” Michael Stipe has made a startling announcement about his two bandmates, Peter Buck and Mike Mills, ending, as Stipe put it, “years of awkward speculation” about their sexual orientation. Watch the clip:
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By Conservative Yankee, March 26 at 10:50 am #
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Who or what the fuck are REM?
Reply to this | Report thisBy Joe Smith, March 26 at 10:38 am #
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The end of my world as I know
For years I have been a closet r.e.m. fan because all of my burly hetero pals consider it “fag music”. Does this mean I can come out of the closet now too?
Reply to this | Report thisBy ignatzh, March 25 at 2:53 pm #
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Please shut up and do something useful
Wow, what a daring stunt to pull, you reified, self aggrandizing putz. Couldn’t you do something else with your millions and your time...oh, that’s right, they have a new record out, not a very good one, that needs as much publicity as it can get.
Reply to this | Report thisBy TinAngel, March 24 at 11:58 am #
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Not Even Funny
Not funny. Michael Stipe is f’ing lame.
Reply to this | Report thisBy lornejl, March 23 at 9:43 am #
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better than the beatles
Michael Stipe of REM, who referred to The Beatles music as “elevator music”. “Maybe it was ground breaking at the time, but it doesn’t hold up.”
Some people really should STU.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Maani, March 23 at 6:34 am #
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I think the best response to this is: who cares?! Anyone who knows the band either knew or suspected this, and it had zero bearing on their feelings for the band or its music. Anyone who doesn’t know the band is not going to either start or stop buying its records as a result of this “very special announcement.”
A non-story if ever there was one.
Peace.
Reply to this | Hide 1 reply | Report thisBy John Wright, March 23 at 7:03 pm #
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Re: What?
Knew or suspected what? That they were straight? I think this bit was great, highlighting the idiocy of announcements regarding someone’s sexuality. Unless you want to have sex with someone what does their sexual “orientation” have to do with anything?
Reply to this | Report thisBy itchy, March 23 at 2:43 am #
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What is so “funny” and “hilarious” about that clip? I’m a straight female who couldn’t care less about someone’s sexual orientation, but to me the clip belittles the real challenges facing gays and lesbians who decide to go public about their sexual orientation. Or am I missing something here?
Reply to this | Report thisBy 1twenty1, March 22 at 9:12 pm #
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HETEROPHOBIA
“Straight” out of an SNL script it would seem.
Reply to this | Report thisBy Outraged, March 22 at 3:23 pm #
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Perfect!
But do you think “they’ll” get it? Watch out R.E.M. you’ll probably start receiving cards and letters thanking you for endorsing the “proper arrangement” of things.....LOL
Reply to this | Report thisBy cyrena, March 22 at 1:15 pm #
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Hilarious!!
This is too funny. (Even if I didn’t know who R.E.M. was before now).
OK, time for all the rest of you STRAIGHT folks to come out of the closet now. There’s no stigma, and you won’t be shunned by society.
This makes me think about the ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ rule that Bill Clinton came up with for military personnel.
Now, did that mean that one simply could not ask about this AT ALL? Like did that prevent all personnel (homosexual as well as heterosexual) from revealing their sexual orientation, one way or the other?
Anyway, I’m happy for these guys.
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