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Celeb News: Interviewer clocks Halsey so hard she drags Imagine Dragons
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Interviewer clocks Halsey so hard she drags Imagine Dragons
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So the mainstream media as we understand it at the moment is irrelevant to you?
Yeah, I couldn’t honestly give a ****.
Why are you doing interviews then?
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Her essay-long response and Imagine Dragons drag (in red):
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Because I do want to open my awareness and I do want people to—
But if the media are irrelevant…
It’s still an entry point. I think the media’s opinion is irrelevant, but I think my presence in it is important. My presence is an entry point and I think that’s important because obviously I want to have as many people be a part of this as possible.
Okay, I just did the Imagine Dragons tour for two months. I was playing arenas in the United States and I was playing to a very sterile audience. I was playing to an audience who knows who Imagine Dragons are because they have radio hits. I wasn’t playing to a group of people that are into their own discovery of music, or into discovering music for themselves or curating their own taste. Obviously they have a very dedicated fanbase and there are a lot of people that are die hard for them and discovered them on their own. When you get to an arena standpoint a lot of those people are there because they are casual fans. I walk out, I’ve got short blue hair and I’m playing to conservative America like, ‘is she gay? I don’t get it. She’s singing about guys but she looks like a lesbian’. I’ve got this song that’s about how this new generation’s accepting of diversity, accepting of different walks of life etcetera. No one ****ing understands it.
For me, the media is very much like playing shows to arenas. There’s 20,000 people there. I don’t really give a **** what they think about me but it’s an entry point, because if one thousand kids walk away from that show and they like me, then I did my job. And if the other 19,000 walk away going, ‘I don’t really get her’, that’s fine too because I was still myself and it was still an entry point. That’s what it really comes down to for me.
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nnn she caught
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So the mainstream media as we understand it at the moment is irrelevant to you?
Yeah, I couldn’t honestly give a ****.
Why are you doing interviews then?
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Oh my...
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where did this girl come from? I feel like she just came out of nowhere....
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So this interviewer is pretty flawless tbqfh
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"I am not mainstream, but I wanna be rich"
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nnn
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Oh my god, she's so pretentious
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And the rest...
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Why are you doing interviews then?
Because I do want to open my awareness and I do want people to—
But if the media are irrelevant…
It’s still an entry point. I think the media’s opinion is irrelevant, but I think my presence in it is important. My presence is an entry point and I think that’s important because obviously I want to have as many people be a part of this as possible.
Okay, I just did the Imagine Dragons tour for two months. I was playing arenas in the United States and I was playing to a very sterile audience. I was playing to an audience who knows who Imagine Dragons are because they have radio hits. I wasn’t playing to a group of people that are into their own discovery of music, or into discovering music for themselves or curating their own taste. Obviously they have a very dedicated fanbase and there are a lot of people that are die hard for them and discovered them on their own. When you get to an arena standpoint a lot of those people are there because they are casual fans. I walk out, I’ve got short blue hair and I’m playing to conservative America like, ‘is she gay? I don’t get it. She’s singing about guys but she looks like a lesbian’. I’ve got this song that’s about how this new generation’s accepting of diversity, accepting of different walks of life etcetera. No one ****ing understands it.
For me, the media is very much like playing shows to arenas. There’s 20,000 people there. I don’t really give a **** what they think about me but it’s an entry point, because if one thousand kids walk away from that show and they like me, then I did my job. And if the other 19,000 walk away going, ‘I don’t really get her’, that’s fine too because I was still myself and it was still an entry point. That’s what it really comes down to for me.
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I get her point, obviously when you're on the record and being forced to say things on the spot it's hard to be perfectly coherent, but she makes a good point.
(I'm not a fan, don't even know a song of hers, just giving her the benefit of the doubt.)
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YAAAAASSS
I like her music but that response was asking for it
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Originally posted by Reinvention
And the rest...
I get her point, obviously when you're on the record and being forced to say things on the spot it's hard to be perfectly coherent, but she makes a good point.
(I'm not a fan, don't even know a song of hers, just giving her the benefit of the doubt.)
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I don't see how that;s relevant.... She can not give a **** what the media says and still want to put her opinions out there and promote herself.. That's what an interview is for.
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Originally posted by Reinvention
And the rest...
I get her point, obviously when you're on the record and being forced to say things on the spot it's hard to be perfectly coherent, but she makes a good point.
(I'm not a fan, don't even know a song of hers, just giving her the benefit of the doubt.)
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I was ready to drag her until I saw this. She made a good point.
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These girls who say "i'm very indie, I h8 mainstream!!!" are so annoying. Yet she's doing mainstream interviews, performing in mainstream TV shows, etc. Just shut up.
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She rebelling against the mainstream with her Bieber collab.
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Originally posted by Letemtalk
She rebelling against the mainstream with her Bieber collab.
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