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Andrew W.K.'s Statement 1/3/10

"Since 2001, I have been accused of being part of a conspiracy in which I knowingly entered into a contract with creative directors called Steev Mike, who proceeded to invent a new identity for me to perform under. I'm here to say this is simply not true and a gross exaggeration of easily explainable and common-place music industry practices. Of course I work with people who choose not to include their whole names or real names in the credits, or who aren't on stage with me during my shows - but taking advice and guidance from other people doesn't mean I'm a victim of mind-control. That's like science fiction! Andrew W.K. is about partying and doing what you want! We want fun, and that really is what I am about.
These lies have unfortunately been with me since my career started - critics were saying I had to be a fake puppet for the record industry because I appeared over night. These simple untrue allegations have grown over the years to the point now where I have to defend myself. I have done many interviews and talks where I have explained the nature of how I got into music, and I admitted that I did work with people. But people have still taken what I said and tried to call me a liar and a fake. What alarms me most about these accusations is that they remind me of witch trials: The kind of people who accuse me of being a talking head for some secret conspiracy to corrupt people's morals are the same people who claim MTV and Cartoon Network are owned by secret rulers of the world out to poison kid's brains, or that pop stars like Beyonce or Lady Gaga are part of some occult society, or that companies like McDonald's, Coca-Cola, or Hollywood are secretly promoting hidden plans. Or that the President of the USA is just a figure head and reading a script given to him by a secret world power. Come on!
We're working in a business where there are different ends and different means. No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do, except me and the people who believe in me. I am a real person who thinks for himself and am not the victim of anyone or group of people trying to influence my career or life. I take responsibility for everything in my life, including who I work for and what happens to me because of it. Just because a person has mentors or advisers doesn't mean they don't have their own brain and soul. And just because I work with other people who advise me doesn't mean that I am a puppet for an evil cult or a have some sort of master plan. I make party music - plain and simple. In fact, it is me who is the innocent victim of a conspiracy of critics and haters who don't believe in the power of music and pure true fun. It is us artists who are the victims. It's crazy that still today, brand new artists like Lady Gaga have already been dealing with the same sort of paranoid allegations that I've has been dealing with since 2001. It just doesn't stop! We are not puppets, we are human beings.
Musicians are not acting, we are real people. We are not part of a conspiracy! It's really intense when people are telling you who you are, so I'm going to tell them who THEY are! On behalf of all musicians, the entertainment industry, and everyone else who's ever been falsely accused, YOU ARE NOT HURTING US AND YOU ARE NOT STOPPING THIS. The party will continue! We will endure! It has become too common for musical artists and performers to be labeled as part of some global scam to control the world, or that we're puppets for a larger agenda designed to hurt people. That's why I'm speaking out and loudly declaring: I am not evil and neither are any of my other fellow members of showbusiness. We are here to bring fun and light into the world, not doubt and darkness. I have been accused of having people design my image, tell me what to say in interviews, design my clothes, the way I look and talk, and of course my music. It's true I do work with people, but not to accomplish anything bad, just the basics that any person does in this business and with this opportunity to live out my dreams.
I have always admitted that I worked with people and I have confessed that time and time again, even if the critics twisted what I said. I did this hoping it would quiet people up and put an end to all the speculation and exaggeration. I was never an actor and the partnerships I made with friends, family, and the companies I've worked with have all been to promote entertainment, excitement, and fun - to give people something fun to focus on and to occupy our thoughts, instead of a bunch of fear or negativity.
I will always keep my focus where it matters most:
1) On being grateful for the incredible people who believe in the feeling I work to create
2) And on that magical feeling itself: BEING ALIVE!
Long live music and long live life. PARTY HARD!"
- Andrew W.K.

andrew w.k. did the moon landing

I love how one of those conspiracy sites they prove that Lady Gaga is a member of the Illuminati by pointing out symbols in an Illuminati-themed photo shoot she did. The site also shows a photo of AWK making the 'sign of the devil' as proof of his evilness. Actually it's proof that he's 16 years old.

It's like, she did that photo shoot for the same reason you're writing that she's part of a conspiracy: Da Vinci Code sold like a motherfucker.

The party will continue! We will endure!

has there been discussion of 55 Cadillac? it's an blast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oQhi5IJmYw

Steinway recorded on cassette mmhmmmm such an American album. Freedom on piano through affirming idioms by wearing&leaping between them w/supreme comfort while also being able to zoom-in to concentrate on repeating a few notes over and over, and to get too excited for the keyboard and drum it out on the top of the piano.

Most people will be unenthusiastic to hear a solo, imporovised, instrumental piano album but it's fine for a one-time listen. It's more successful as a symbol than for the music or the performances. Like Metal Machine Music. It's not well recorded in my opinion.

Actually, rather than Metal Machine Music, a better comparison would be Julian Cope's Skellington - a hastily recorded, sparsely orchestrated statement of artistic freedom that will be unheard by all but the most devoted fans.

He's putting it up for free on his website right? Why wouldn't casual fans take a listen then?

Because it's an instrumental album with (mostly) nothing but him banging away on piano.

I may be wrong but that kind of shit doesn't really turn folks on unless it's Glenn Gould playing Bach. I love AWK but he's not good enough (nor is the album well enough recorded) to carry that over a whole album.

OK I'm listening to it now, and am not really digging it, but it's not so abrasive that I'd warn off casual fans from it. I liked the crickets at the beginning. Perfectly acceptable typing music.

AWK's 2009-2010 NYE mixtape:

SONG
1 It's Time to Party by Andrew WK
2 Tom Tit by Aleister X
3 Stuntin' Like My Daddy by Birdman
4 Quack Head by Bad Brilliance
5 Bloodstone (Live) by Judas Priest
6 Devil's Child by Judas Priest
7 Party Hard by Andrew WK
8 Lemonade by Gucci Mane
9 Electric Feel (Justice Remix) by MGMT
10 My Feet Keep Dancing by Chic
11 One More Time by Daft Punk

Xpost. Maybe my comparison with Metal Machine Music gave the impression that it was abrasive. It isn't - just poorly recorded. Which is why I changed my comparison to Skellington. The comparison was only because it's the product of an artist proving he can do whatever the hell he wants, with disregard for both the music industry and (most) fans expectations.

everything are you saying ppl don't like solo instrumental piano music? agreed on the recording quality not being that great but the rest of yr statements are madness.

Glenn Gould playing Bach, people like. Andrew WK making shit up as he goes along may be a bit of a harder sell. Is that really so challenging an opinion?

I got it, and I'm not really a fan, I don't have any other Andrew WK stuff, I just thought it looked awesome. Keith Jarrett has had a pretty good career, I'm not feeling you on the unpalatable nature of improv piano.

He doesn't have to sell it; it's there for free! I'm not sure if the paradigm of self-indulgent artistic statement applies to someone who says "yes" to just about everything.

"Artistic statement" - yes. Never said it was self-indulgent.

Keith Jarrett? I'm still waiting for him to make a folk album on acoustic guitar, written and recorded in two days. That'll be KILLER.

zmg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6pMNElW0rE

Awesome it's the 1st Andrew WK from pre-2005.

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs148.snc3/17577_260411202896_63695247896_3388757_8365573_n.jpg

andrew wk and cherie lily in next month's ELLE magazine on New York Power Couples!

That's some nice wallpaper he's wearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOvnbCtnVQ

for a man who writes so many songs about partying and dancing he sure can't dance his way out of a paper bag

classic

You have to admire his continuing dedication to Partying Hard though, even in the face of a full Juggalo onslaught.

that video is like the crucifixion. "you know not what you do"

55 Cadillac is definitely the bomb though, I've run tests and had it confirmed from outside sources.

he loves the juggalo tribes so much he is willing to lay down his headbanging for them

I saw him live last year, kind of awesome when he invited several hundred people up onstage to dance with him, leaving about ten people in the audience.

http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/113460.jpg

Oh my gosh he's straight from a RAY BRADBURY STYLE EVIL CIRCUS!

Oh sorry about the caps there.

Twig Harper on "Andrew WK", Andrew W.K. and Steev Mike (and lots of acid).

http://heresee.com/twigharper/steevmike.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzlmaWukpdk

Hilarious

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CUklDNYlL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I love this picture so much...except I just got this in the mail & it's this like infinite regress-type thing. A smaller version of the image of him holding the albums covers the black space where his head is.

And I like THAt even better!

Plus this

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BzbVmjyhvHI/Szn0MNd0D2I/AAAAAAAABTI/7XtKqHA57tI/s400/AndrewWK_MotherOfMankind_AlbumCover.jpg

AWK is ariel pink's bizarro astral twin (and vice versa), they are both schizo in equal and opposite ways

He looks like some kind of really bad Judy Garland impersonator in that cover and the name of the album (or collection of rarities, I guess) is called MOTHER of Mankind! Is AWK asserting the presence of the divine feminine within his own inner mythos?

http://www.facebook.com/AndrewWKMay?v=wall#!/AndrewWKMay

DMX April is over, and a new month is upon us...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUrnKXEdk34

In the month of May, we listen to Andrew W.K. and party hard every single day.

And Don't forget to party even harder on May 9th to celebrate Andrew W.K.'s birthday.

http://www.last.fm/group/Andrew%20W.K.%20May

http://www.andrewwk.com/cms/data/pictures_images/p_1092.jpg

http://twitter.com/AndrewWK/status/15379574220

My life is proof that you can party as a profession.
about 8 hours ago via txt

http://twitter.com/AndrewWK/status/15162845648

wow http://truthaboutandrewwk.blogspot.com/

In the early 1990's the Universal Group began a coordinated effort in film and especially pop music, in which they created their own robotic actors and performers, who's careers they could design and program from the start. Andrew WK (signed on in '97 or '98, officially launched in 2001) and Lady Gaga (signed on in '03 or '04, officially launched in 2008) are two artists with seemingly nothing in common, but in fact they are both constructed, hired figure-heads for a USA based effort of the occult society, most likely the Freemasons or the Illuminati.

These group's aims are control and power and it uses music, movies and other pop culture media to influence and brain wash the youth population while they play out rituals designed to give them energy while they worship Lucifer. Andrew WK and Lady Gaga both proudly promote that they "come from" New York City, the city of Babylon and the home of the largest Illuminati conspiracy of the past 20 years: 9/11.

Illuminati conspiracies aren't even amusing to me anymore. They're just depressingly stupid.