- Listnin' 2 Blind Melon's 2nd album 'Soup' after re-reading about sad death of Hoon in '95. Great Album, some stuning bass work on here too.. 
Motley Crue’s low-end generator and all-round hell raiser Nikki Sixx has given the Wall Street Journal a slamming in a new online post, claiming that an interviewer for the paper had taken comments he made about not wanting info leaked on the internet out of context and came up with the headline ‘Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx Hates the Internet’.
In his online post on Monday(2oth July 2009) Sixx wrote :
“I did an interview with The Wall Street Journal. You would think they would be smart enough not to hire a stupid writer for such a reputable newspaper . . . Somehow, the interview got into talking about Twitter and I explain to him my thoughts on over0exposure through too much info on the net… Of course, he turns it around that ‘I hate the Internet’ and you just scratch your head and wonder, why would a guy do that? Worse, why would The Wall Street Journal hire someone with such a small brain?”
He al so adds, “Motley was one of the first to use the internet to get information to fans, using downloads (free and paid for) to get our music around the world, to offer exclusive content to our fans . . . The essence of the point I was making (as I spoke on my iPhone with all of its new cool apps) is that there are elements of the Internet that I think are not cool — like why do people need to know where someone is at the moment or what they are thinking that second — on Twitter.”
Its a bit daft really, Sixx maintains his own myspace blog and his own website www.nikkisixx.net, so writing abut him hating the internet was a little short sighted, and really doesn’t make much sense.
The article in the Journal quotes Sixx as saying, “I’m so over the Internet. Twitter is ridiculous and there’s too much info out there. Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique . . . We want to control as much as we can of what’s getting out there about us so that people who come (to see Crue Fest) are blown away.”
I tend to agree with what he says actually, anyone who’s secrets, rumours and lies are spread across the internet could quite easily have a bad relationship with it. Especially when writers are twisiting what they really mean. Its got to get your back up a little.
What do we reckon? Are celebs, rock stars and movie stars losing thier mystique due to social networking web tools like twitter and myspace etc? Will it eventually dilute the idea of stardom?
