{"id":8728,"date":"2017-10-15T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:42:02","slug":"its-a-very-fcked-up-time-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/15\/its-a-very-fcked-up-time-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a Very F*cked Up Time to Be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/michael-stipe-opens-up-about-rem-and-president-trump-its-a-very-fucked-up-time-to-be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Daily Beast<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Michael Stipe Opens Up About R.E.M. and President Trump: \u2018It\u2019s a Very F*cked Up Time to Be\u2019<\/h1>\n<h2>The R.E.M. frontman sat down with Stereo Williams to discuss the 25th anniversary of their celebrated album \u2018Automatic for the People\u2019 and the not so shiny happy state of America.<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleAuthor__name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/stereo-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by STEREO WILLIAMS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xwtdhWltSIg\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/michael-stipe-and-mike-mills-talk-about-rems-breakup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">certain things Michael Stipe recalls<\/a> about his most visible years as a rock superstar that give a clear indicator of his paradoxical relationship with icon status. He\u2019s alternately cocky about R.E.M.\u2019s heyday (\u201cwe were fucking <em>audacious<\/em>\u201d) and self-effacingly dismissive about their most celebrated \u201990s album (\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been repeating everything I\u2019ve been saying for the last quarter century\u201d). The band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/why-rems-automatic-for-the-people-remains-as-hauntingly-beautiful-as-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Automatic for the People<\/em><\/a>, released 25 years ago in October 1992, was a creative triumph at the height of R.E.M.\u2019s most commercial period. The quartet from Athens, Georgia, had famously risen through the ranks of \u201980s college rock to become \u201990s pop stars, and frontman Stipe was wrestling with newfound superstardom.<\/p>\n<p>And on a balmy day in the East Village, he\u2019s still wrestling with that fame in hindsight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI became extremely famous\u2014suddenly,\u201d Stipe recalls. He smirks when thinking back to when he\u2019d suddenly gone from college rock enigma <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/bono-suggests-sending-amy-schumer-to-help-crush-isis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to Bono-level<\/a> rock star.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be able to identify the people that would recognize me walking on the sidewalk in New York,\u201d he muses. \u201cThat went from those identifiable music fans or punk rock fans or whatever\u2014to everyone. I went from a singer in a band with a few hits and a core audience\u2014a large core audience\u2014but [after] \u2018Losing my Religion\u2019 and the popularity of that video\u2026 I was hugely famous and that was weird for me. I\u2019m still and always will be shy. I\u2019ve learned how to deal with it and finish my sentences and talk to people in a regular way, but it was intense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/michael-stipe-opens-up-about-rem-and-president-trump-its-a-very-fucked-up-time-to-be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Daily Beast<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Daily Beast Michael Stipe Opens Up About R.E.M. and President Trump: \u2018It\u2019s a Very F*cked Up Time to Be\u2019 The R.E.M. frontman sat down with Stereo Williams to discuss the 25th anniversary of their celebrated album \u2018Automatic for the People\u2019 and the not so shiny happy state of America. by STEREO WILLIAMS There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}