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"what the hell, Katy Perry. what the hell, music industry. is "do a racist performance to get press" gonna be a thing now? please let's not."

-- The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle was not a fan of Katy Perry's performance on last night's American Music Awards, which featured the pop star dressed up like a Japanese geisha (via Twitter)

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"I think that anybody who's anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn't people take pictures of themselves? When I'm on Instagram and I see that somebody took a picture of themselves, I'm like, 'Thank you.' I don't need to see a picture of the sky, the trees, plants. There's only one you... There's all this bullshit about 'the younger kids today are more self-absorbed.' It's like, give me a fucking break! I've been in nursing homes, where my grandma is. I've seen some of the most selfish people on the planet in there... And the world that these kids are born into literally could not get more selfish. The world is so fucked-up and unequal and full of assholes. You can't blame it on the younger generation."

--Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig defends the youth's Right to Selfie. (via Rolling Stone)

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"Shout out to over-sexed teenagers. Shout out to sex abbreviations that sound like the word 'puberty.' Shout out to animal euthanasia as sexual innuendo. Shout out to the new genre: nymphomaniac pop. Shout out to my Biebs. Go get some, bro. I’ll be reading the psalms, eating Scotch oatmeal cookies, etc. The world is abundant."

-- Hard to tell exactly how Sufjan Stevens feels about Justin Bieber's new collaboration with R. Kelly, "PYD". (Via Sufjan's Tumblr)

"This is going to sound totally weird, but Drake is a huge inspiration. It's not going to be a rap record, but in terms of lyrics and emotion. I cannot stop listening to Drake. I am obsessed. It's ridiculous how obsessed I am. When I listen to his music, what he's saying is so real and it doesn't feel sugarcoated or fake at all. I definitely took inspiration from that when writing lyrics. My lyrics have always been straightforward and honest and not sugarcoated but this time around I was like 'Okay I'm going to say what I have to say and I'm going to feel like Drake about it. I'll just say it.'"

—Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino wants to emulate Drizzy's honesty on her next LP. (via Rolling Stone)

"I don’t put up with hecklers…When people come to see us play, they need to understand that we’re in charge of the show. We’re performing for you. We make the setlist. We pick the songs we’re going to play. And you paid money to come see us do that. So if you yell some annoying thing to me, I am not going to pretend I didn’t hear it. Last week, we played at Indiana University, and there was this kid that kept yelling 'Play something better!' and I was like 'What the fuck does that mean?' And then he threw a cheeseburger at me, and I lost it. I was like 'Fuck you! Get the fuck out of here!' I was just screaming on the mic, and all the kids at the concert were like, 'That was so badass, I can’t believe you did that!'"

— Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino is not going to deal with hecklers' bullshit. (via Self-Titled)

"I’d rather somebody stole the record on vinyl than bought it or streamed it on Spotify. Because I think you should listen to music on vinyl, and I think basically anything is better than that. It's like going to a restaurant when the chef and all the waiting staff have worked their asses off, and you leave coppers as a tip, and you don't even pay the bill. That's basically what Spotify's like, I think."

— Yannis Philippakis, frontman of Mercury-nominated British rock band Foals, joins the ranks of Thom Yorke, Nigel Godrich, and David Byrne with some scathing criticism of Spotify. (Channel 4 via Music Week)

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"Seems like the YouTube music awards are pretty much the same as the VMAs. I don't really see the point. If it's all about hits sure I get it but let's be fair. YouTube award nominations clearly don't care about cutting edge/innovation. They had an opportunity to shine a light on all the artists that they helped to gain notoriety just to shit on them for uber famous acts. No disrespect to the nominees yadda yadda"

-- Flying Lotus is not a fan of the YouTube Music Awards and its list of nominees. (via Twitter)

"Unfortunately, I am not homosexual. In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course ... not many."

— After releasing his memoir, which features passages about his relationships with men, Morrissey has issued a statement clarifying his sexuality. (via True to You)