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"The character's name is Georgie Fruit, and he's in his late forties, a black man who has been through multiple sex changes. He's been a man and a woman, and then back to a man. He's been to prison a couple of times. In the 1970s he was in a band called "Arousal", a funk rock band sort of like the Ohio Players. Then he went through a few different phases."

-Kevin Barnes



Holy shit I need a shower fuck this racial tourist Rachel Dolezal bullshit, dude

Album Rating: 4.5

lol Last year Kevin actually edited a song and quietly put the song with new lyrics back on Spotify and streaming services. Changed the lyrics in "Wicked Wisdom" from "I'm just a black-shemale" to "I'm just a powdered bell".

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guess this ain't the time to be zany-provocative.



but most everything i've heard about this dude sort of points towards a rather unlikeable pretentious diva. idk at least it translates into good music some half the time.

Album Rating: 4.5

He's honestly really sweet and humble when you talk with him, but his persona and ego do appear pretty intense, but I mean, isn't that what made Bowie great?

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and now every quirky colourful guitar-wielding swagger shmuck thinks he's Bowie

Album Rating: 4.5

;]

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just because it worked for Annie Clark doesn't mean it will for all of us

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Everyone thinks it's the colorful costumes that make you Bowie smh



Bowie is Bowie on accounta that malicious coke habit and preying on teenagers

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aah the classic Bowie i see

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there's only one other David B that can rival that swagger and be completely clean and the world has used that option to great results.

>but I mean, isn't that what made Bowie great?

uim pretty sure it was actually his music that made him great but ok

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"there's only one other David B that can rival that swagger and be completely clean and the world has used that option to great results."



someone if you're talking about David Berman right now Im liable to give you a big ol smoocharooni

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*there are only two other David Bs...



(speaking of which, i gotta go 5 a few Silver Jews records, cause i have not done so yet)

Album Rating: 4.0

Apparently "Wicked Wisdom" and the album Skeletal Lamping, in general, is where all the racist shit is, although the character does get name-dropped on Hissing Fauna. I'm dreading listening to Skeletal Lamping now... maybe I'll put that one off until I heard most of the other albums



Kevin's apology from 2019, took him 11 years. Honestly, that's kinda a long time in internet years, but at least he sounds genuine: https://twitter.com/xxofMontrealxx/status/1193257225294356480



Outside of that though: I absolutely love of Montreal's music and most of their lyrics and honestly I'm extra disappointed because before learning this I saw Barnes are one of the coolest personalities in modern music. Not afraid to present LGBT themes (Barnes is both bi and genderqueer) in both an in your face and interesting way... but yeah he shouldn't be writing as a black person

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i kinda wanna listen to Skeletal Lamping now

Album Rating: 4.5

idk how Annie Clark is anything like Bowie imo.

RIP David Berman

@parks - of course, but with his constantly changing music came his many different personas.

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(i meant David Byrne, cause i was thinking more the extravagant persona David B)

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Lmao that makes very sense

Following that lineage is a heavy burden to shoulder



BUT BYRNE CAME PREPARED

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@Ars- other than that one line he changed, there aren't any references to race and he certainly never did black-face or anything horrible like that. Georgie Fruit always felt like a device to be something so far removed from categorization that the individual in question was unrecognizable. I do agree though, giving GF a specific race wasn't a good idea.

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Also presumably the fucked-up-edness of the name itself



"Fruit" obviously derogatorily referring to queer people

and

"George" a racial slur dating back to the slave trade.



With those two together, don't feel like much of an accident