rolling #metoo thread for sexual harassment in the music industry so no one misses out when artists we don't give a fuck about like Tim Westwood and Bassnectar get caught

win win, getting to blow Paul from Wonder Years and having it be you all along

Was kind of shocked when I rewatched Lost Highway recently and spotted Manson. Creepy dude

I’m pretty sure the first time I ever heard of Manson, I heard whispers that he had his ribs removed so he could blow himself and that he was Paul from The Wonder Years.

fun fact: Marilyn Manson is the bloke from the band Marilyn Manson and his name is not Trent.

Generally as a rule of thumb I trust people who come forward with things like this and while I still acknowledge that this indeed could have happened and she was right (but why would she delete and apologise afterwards then?), I take everything she says with a pinch of salt especially if it involves people who she doesn't like.

yeah i completely agree with this

Sony's longest-standing employee, globally, fired effective immediately after head office found 25 years of complaints under a sandwich

Jesus, that's horrifying.

For those of you who, like me, feel called to comb through the article looking for the sandwich anecdote, I believe that (sic) was using a turn of phrase.

yes, sorry - the phrase was meant to be self-evidently impossible, in lieu of whatever wildly implausible excuse Sony may come out with themselves

Lotta booze though, but no sandwiches.

Vegemite sandwiches by proxy, due to a passing mention of Men At Work.

“Found under a Walkman”

For those of you who, like me, feel called to comb through the article looking for the sandwich anecdote, I believe that (sic) was using a turn of phrase.

― peace, man, Monday, June 21, 2021 7:21 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanking you for your service.

read this as found a head under a sandwich

the worse part of me keeps wondering if there's a missing semi-colon before "office"

the better part of me and the worse part of me are both disgusted by this story

the worse part of me keeps wondering if there's a missing semi-colon before "office"

― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, June 21, 2021 10:23 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol that's what i thought before i was control+fing sandwich

thirded

not fourthed

“fing sandwich” however...

what r the best sandwiches to give head to

head cheese

^ the best type of sandwich

pizza sandwich

how would you like a pizza this

https://i.imgur.com/olvOV9u.png

I'm sorry I brought up the sandwich thing.

u_u

Like, I'm much more disgusted by the toxic fucking work environment that these women had to suffer through. Fuck an alcoholic, sexist work culture. Wonder which US rapper from 2012 called for that shot-session? MGMT were brought up as being at the scene of one of that executive's tirades at a woman. Have any musicians spoken up? Do John Farnham or Midnight Oil have anything to say?

the worst thing about the sony revelations, aside from the obvious, is that the end goal of all this abuse, alcoholism, and abject misery is getting like, jessica mauboy to play the afl half time show. what a sad industry.

— anthony albanese mum truther (@nocallums) June 22, 2021

lol, nice twitter handle.

Drake Bell pleads guilty of crimes against a child, faces up to 2 years in prison

https://news.yahoo.com/drake-bell-pleads-guilty-crimes-against-child-faces-up-to-2-years-in-prison-193935136.html

Marilyn Manson Will Turn Himself In to Police Over Videographer-Assault Incident

This case is unrelated to multiple ongoing accusations and lawsuits accusing Manson of sexual assault and psychological abuse of multiple women.

Eddie Deezen nooooo!!!

Eddie Deezen is a fucking CREEP who comes into my work at least once a week, calls and asks other servers for my schedule, and if he comes in and i’m not wearing makeup HE LEAVES. And this grown ass old man has the balls to post this on facebook about me im losing my mind pic.twitter.com/FBFTLdp5Mx

— Kara (@KaraLashbaugh) June 22, 2021

there are not enough eyerolls in the world

I don't think Eddie Deezen has a music career though

A thread re Frederic Rzewski.

A famous composer died today. Honestly, my entire experience of his music is too colored by my impressions of his behavior around young women for me to have much of a memory of anything else. I stopped seeking it out after meeting him.

— Jen Wang (@jen_wang) June 26, 2021

Had to look up who Eddie Denzeen is, and ha ha ha (noooooo)

https://www.wdtn.com/news/ohio/drake-bell-of-drake-and-josh-to-be-sentenced-on-charges-for-crimes-against-child/

Two year suspended sentence (plea deal), is now a registered sex offender.

Frightening testimony from victim:

According to the victim, who is now 19, she had maintained a relationship with Bell since she was 12-years-old.

“He was a hero to me. I would have done anything for him,” she said.

She says they maintained a relationship online.

She says when she was 15, the messages were “blatantly sexual.”

The prosecutor’s office says at that concert, “Bell violated his duty of care and, in doing so, created a risk of harm to the victim.”

The teen says Bell forced her to perform sexual acts backstage at the concert and again at a hotel room in Cleveland.

“He is a monster and a danger to children,” she said.

...

“He is sorry he’s finally been caught. He committed these crimes with pride,” she said.

“Jared Drake Bell is a pedophile and this is his legacy,” she ended.

Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence. This is seriously gross stuff. Had always figured that he was around my age or younger, just based on the juvenility of his lyrics when I first heard them. Surprised to learn he is now in his early 50s.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mindless-self-indulgence-jimmy-urine-sexual-assault-1209677/

yeah this was a shock for me. horrible

hmm

and this latest lawsuit alleges he attended a "pedophile-themed" party hosted by THE SUICIDE SQUAD director James Gunn pic.twitter.com/FGxiNcmTXa

— Matthew Ismael Ruiz (@PoRican) August 9, 2021

Oh, this guy?

https://deadline.com/2018/07/james-gunn-fired-guardians-of-the-galaxy-disney-offensive-tweets-1202430392/

oh I def thought of that

This story is wild

https://www.theroot.com/nicki-minajs-husband-kenneth-petty-pleads-guilty-to-fai-1847652810

It seems Minaj and Petty’s lives are spiraling out of control, as of late. As a registered Level 2 sex offender on New York State’s Sex Offender Registry, Petty is considered to pose “a medium risk of committing another offense” (h/t USA Today) and was obligated to register in California. However, as previously reported by The Root, not only did he not do so, but he and Minaj allegedly attempted to bribe his accuser, identified as Jennifer Hough, into recanting her testimony, according to a lawsuit filed in August which “alleges that the couple attempted to convince the woman who accused Petty of sexual assault in the 1990s to recant her account by harassing and intimidating her.”

“The lawsuit says that an intermediary offered Ms. Hough $20,000 in exchange for signing a prepared statement recanting the accusation,” the New York Times reported. “At one point last year, the lawsuit says, Ms. Minaj called Ms. Hough, saying that she had heard Ms. Hough was willing to ‘help out’; days later, it says, Ms. Hough and her family members received an ‘onslaught of harassing calls and unsolicited visits’ from people she believed to be associated with the couple.”

if she gets her puddin pop vaxxed, maybe his balls will swell up too huge to assault anyone

https://www.nme.com/news/music/emily-ratajkowski-accuses-robin-thicke-of-groping-her-while-filming-blurred-lines-music-video-3060802

there it is

Just a random question, but since the responsibility of the directing-producting crews have markedly gone up in the last ten years (I'm thinking especially about the sex scenes special counsellors for movies - but also about the clear reaction here from the director), cannot contracts with the cast directly include a notion of immediate financial compensation in case someone does something inappropriate on stage? I understand it might be difficult to cover every potential case, but as an added layer of protection before any judicial settlement?

in other words, an insurance policy?

100 current and former Sony employees say the head office should have stepped in to stop Handlin's abuse, misconduct, discrimination and systemic bullying slightly earlier than the 37 years they knew about and rewarded it.

"The kindest thing I could say about Denis was that he was sort of an equal opportunity abuser," former secretary McKay said.

"He was as mean to men as he was to women."

...

Handlin appeared to be proud of his ruthless management style.

In an internal staff video, he is seen dressed as Adolf Hitler while parodying a Mel Brooks comedy song.

By the late 1990s, Denis Handlin's leadership had become so volatile that annual staff turnover at Sony Music Australia was running at up to 50 per cent.

As the head of human resources, it was Greg Lockhart's job to clean up and cover up Handlin's abuses.

"There would be someone every day that I would have to put back together again from some drama that Denis had created the night before or the day before."

... Lockhart said he reported Handlin's behaviour to Sony Music's global head office in New York multiple times throughout the 1990s, but his concerns were ignored.

As the head of HR, Lockhart detailed how Handlin had ordered him to sack people for "not smiling at him", "not liking the physical look of someone", or "for being pregnant".

Handlin's orders didn't end there.

"Such is the level of Denis' obsession with total control that I have been instructed on a dozen different occasions to have personnel followed by private detectives," Lockhart wrote.

Alexis is an abuser, so that’s one way to put it.

— LINGUA “SAD CHRISTIAN MOM” IGNOTA (@LINGUA_IGNOTA_) October 12, 2021

talking about alexis marshall from daughters

Posies thread revived separately but just to note:

https://kuow.org/stories/as-sexual-misconduct-allegations-dog-ken-stringfellow-of-the-posies-the-band-breaks-up