Ariel Pink

Maus appeared on that short lived Sam Hyde show that was in adultswim but I wrongly assumed it was because he was just naive

MAGA turn for Pink wouldn’t surprise me sadly. It fits the mentality that’s come across in interviews before.

maus's defense at the time for going on the MDE show came across as naive bullshit

pink is already MAGA and has been for a while

Pink even addresses the "they think that I'm a troll... the only way they can see me and give me a pass" stance over in this thing posted a couple of weeks ago.

Yikes!

I didn’t know he was at the level where he’s excited to talk someone about why mail in ballots and climate change are fake.

When I met Pink at my local here in Amsterdam a year ago he just seemed like a deep (acid?) fried, insecure yet intelligent dude. Friendly enough. We have a couple of mutual acquaintances in common but I never got any overt MAGA vibes from him. Kinda shocked.

he's been the sort of guy to rail about pc gone mad etc forever, it's not really a huge shift

THIS GUY! He once was a hero of mine. Now i wanna kick him in the face. His face is bullshit!

Adding to the "not shocked, but sad" crowd. Had kind of given up Ariel already; there's been too many red flags the last couple of years. I'm more surprised, and appalled, at Maus going full MAGA.

Not surprising.
Didnt he do that KK glam record a while back?

I hopped off the Ariel Pink bandwagon many years ago, but hoped John Maus wasn’t as much a moron as he is.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka)

Yeah, Ariel Pink has been clearly a dickhead for a long time, but I really thought Maus was better than that.

this guy is a toilet

“Mankind is a nazi / humanity is the devil” iirc

someone has shared this
https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/136671688_1333656816987705_8348487301874769846_o.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/neoGrJo.jpg

lolll yes crazy times indeed brother

john maus must be confused because someone else named ariel pink shared this: "i was in dc to peacefully show my support for the president. i attended the rally on the white house lawn"

Maus is from my homeland of southern Minnesota so maybe just a return to his roots

I mean, fuck Pink, he’s been a scumbag for years. Extra galling for him to tweet “vote for Trump” AFTER the events of yesterday. Super fucked up, even for him.

that's about the explanation i expected from maus, basically saying "i was just observing"

even though ariel clearly wasn't

i hear you. but i think youre missing the big picture. there are no moderates anymore on the left. the moderates have fled the party. pelosi is moderate and even she has capitulated to pressures within her own party. BLM is a good example.

— Ariel Pink (@arielxpink) January 4, 2021

nixon ended the vietnam war, opened up trade relations with China (in hindsight, perhaps not the best move) and yes, he stepped down with grace and dignity when the watergate scandal broke. a good president overall, imo. though not as good as trump

— Ariel Pink (@arielxpink) January 4, 2021

really? is that where you are going with this? you know the KKK were Democrats, right? you know that the president who ended slavery, abe lincoln, was a republican, right?

— Ariel Pink (@arielxpink) January 4, 2021

i dont refuse that biden won-He won-no argument there. Problem is--biden WON- which means its Game Over- dems are under a delusion that US will improve, rather than implode-if georgia goes blue- USA wont make it summer

— Ariel Pink (@arielxpink) January 3, 2021

the economy was doing great just prior to covid. clamping down on illegal immigration is for ur benefit. tough on china is for ur benefit. middle east peace talks and for years not at war-for your benefit. covid vaccine and relief was for ur benefit.

— Ariel Pink (@arielxpink) December 31, 2020

Yep, that's all you need to know basically. Fuck him.

not helping yourself here, Ariel

weird that these white guys fetishizing reagan-era pop dross would turn out to be spineless right wing creeps

o wait

tbf Ariel is a single-issue voter (Afghan heroin production)

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he looks like someone tried to make a bust of kurt cobain out of ground chicken

this thread is a real time capsule, p dismaying to scroll up to *2012* and see emil.y valiantly arguing with tendentious men about this guy's screamingly obvious fucked-upness

Are you gonna look after my (proud) boys?

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I'm just waiting to see what he has to do to finally get the majority of the hipsterati to despise him. short of actual crimes I'd rather not joke about (yet honestly wouldn't put past him if he's a junkie), I feel like it's gotta be vocal support for alex jones or some shit. or gamergate.

― give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Monday, November 17, 2014 7:00 AM (six years ago)

Really bummed about John Maus. The red flags were there too (e.g. https://pitchfork.com/news/john-maus-speaks-on-involvement-with-canceled-alt-right-adult-swim-show/ ) but he also had songs like “cop killer” and “rights for gays”, but I’m thinking he was being ironic with the latter, reading the lyrics under the revelation that he actually shares alt right ideologies makes it disgusting.

I really hope Pitchfork's article about them today is the last time they give either of them coverage, tbh. Would love to see Pink's next album to be greeted with the response that Ryan Adams' "comeback" album got.

Hmm... Ariel Pink IS the only person who's ever asked me to put a swastika on an album cover, so uhhh... this maybe checks out.

— Robert Beatty (@EdSunspot) January 7, 2021

Since he goes on to say in the thread that he might be deleting this thread soon, the quoted tweet was noted artist Robert Beatty saying, "Hmm... Ariel Pink IS the only person who's ever asked me to put a swastika on an album cover, so uhhh... this maybe checks out."

he looks like someone tried to make a bust of kurt cobain out of ground chicken

I still have no idea who this guy is, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

he's hopefully over now anyway so no need to ask rly

I still have no idea who this guy is, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

I've known his name for years but never listened. I clicked through three or four songs on Spotify this morning; it was some of the worst shit I've ever heard. I'd say I can't believe ILXors actually listen to this garbage, but I absolutely can.

‘The Doldrums’ is a masterpiece, but that doesn’t really matter anymore

Shit, Beatty locked his Twitter account after that thread. Hoping he wasn't being set upon by rabid MAGAts.

Dedicated to Bobby Jameson was his best I thought. Good way to go out I guess. RIP

I am glad I always thought they/he sucked.

can we make this Type Of Guy extinct now please. they've had enough indulgence from the music press over the last 50 years

I only know him because he played (pretty good!) bass in a friend's band and was pretty lowkey, never heard his own tunes but yeah he seems to be long gone.

RIP

It pretty obvious this guy has always been a scumbag, but it kind of amazes me that he would pick now of all times to blow up his career over Trump.

I feel like Pink indoctrinated Maus into this bullshit. Though perhaps that's my wishful thinking

whats the over/under on him playing a trump rally in 2021