The strangely seductive banality of "Interview" magazine.

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Was orginally "Andy Warhol's Interview", and thus visually fabulous and oddly full of emptiness.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

i guess i'm most interested in the "seductive" part...

as you say, colin, "interview" is basically empty, but somehow it sustains the illusion of being not-empty, or rather it succesfully projects a sense of independence and intelligence, if only for a short while. what does it do right--as far as it goes--that other similar magazines do not, and why does it still come up so short? what version of celebrity are they selling and is it a different thing from the other ones? did it represent a new version of celebrity when it first came out?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:49 (twenty years ago) link

To the extent that "Hi, Mick and Bianca." "Hi, Andy. Can you pass the cocaine?" was new, yes.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 19 December 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link

eight months pass...

if every starlet featured in a hollywood magazine is "not your average starlet" (complete with unconvincing quotes meant to display intelligence/"refreshing cynicism"/"refreshing non-cynicism"/sophistication), then who is your average starlet?

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

The Naomi Watts photo-spread was disturbing

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i kind of have a thing for all these "fashion" magazines now that i can read them for free...it's like watching the clouds go by.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

that's the best description yet

― amateur!!st, Friday, 27 August 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

it's just a world i have absolutely no connection with. i can't process it. it's like looking into a bird's eye.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

it's pretty lightweight now. i remember reading a robert downey jr. interview in the late 80s that seemed pretty meaty but maybe it's cos i was 13.

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

an old girlfriend of mine was a subscriber! that and that only...

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i read "fader" today, yeah, yeah, it's a "music" magazine sure right. the m.i.a. and killa cam interviewe were dumb but pretty pictures.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i'd actually read it, tho. the one-sleb-interviews-another is an ok idea i guess, pharell interviewing michael jackson (or vice versa?) was hilarious, creepy, suck-uppy etc

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

btw amst, yr average startlet is jennifer aniston (or her new improved equiv)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

Ceases publication

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/may/21/andy-warhol-interview-magazine-closes

― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 21 May 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link

I have no idea what magazines are still in print besides, like, Time, National Geographic and The Economist, and Vogue and Cosmo.

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link

Lotta people I know got their first jobs shooting for interview

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link

Never bought or read an issue, makes me a little sad anyway.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link

Greil Marcus used to have a music column with 'em.

This one was probably the first time he wrote about Corin Tucker, before Heavens To Betsey even had an album out.

― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link

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