Bands/artists you now respect more only because they were so rad to Nardwuar

when the dudes he's interviewing get annoyed at him i find myself taking the same route. the feigned personality is such a gimmick compared to the potential he has for really enlightening viewers about a band's/artist/whatever's history and interests. it seems he puts it up as a sort of barrier whenever his interviewee begins to grow agitated b/c of it, and drops all of it save for the accent when they play along.

i wonder if he thinks by employing the nardwuar personality that he reduces his risk of becoming overly creepy/paparrazi-like?

i watched a lot of these today. i like them. hilary duff one is really good! Double Duff! hahaha! like that n.e.r.d. one too.

interviews in general are usually so horrible. i've got nothing bad to say about him. so he's in character. so is every other pro interviewer. other people are just in really boring character. i love that all it takes is the hat and glasses. he looks totally normal without those 2 thing.

things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKuJOe2goA

This has to be so much more than Nardwuar ever thought he could get out of an interview. It seems Andrew WK gets the premise more than he does.

"do you have a disease? are you addicted to cheese?"

in that blur video all 3 of them seem so high. seems like it should be from the mid 90s not 2003.

http://soundcloud.com/rhymesayers/brother-ali-nardwuar

lol, hopsin is such a knucklehead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sR0skLOZk

Not sure if it counts because I don't like him anyway, but the Nas thing he did made me just me shake my head at how dense and full of his own bullshit Nas is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL8PuPjYdyk

Embarrassing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbYRsU4FHaQ
i've never heard anything from this person and wow just wow

Can we compile the best/worst interviewees on Nardwuar? Comparing the chill ones to the pricks. There's so many of them I don't know where to start, the best ones are mostly metal/hip hop artists. They come off as the most smart and humorous of all I've seen so far. Artists being pricks to Nardwuar tell a lot about their real personalities, I guess that's one of my favorite things about him. He acts like a barometer that let's you know how charismatic an artist really is in person and how well they cope with something out of the ordinary.

The Rad:

Andrew W.K.
A$AP Rocky
Juicy J
David Cross
Drake
Haim
Gene Simmons
Greg Gine
Grimes
Gwar
Marylin Manson
Pharrell / N.E.R.D.
Riff Raff
Sage Francis
Snoop Dogg
Thor
Tyler, the creator
Vanilla Ice
Waka Flocka Flame

The Douchebags

Alice Cooper
Beck
Blur
Henry Rollins
Sonic Youth
Transplants

The Gwar interview is hilarious in case you haven't watched it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1mTyPfeio

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

To add to the list of good guys; both Tyler and Lizzo look like they’re having a ball.

Tyler in 2022 I hasten to add.