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and to be clear: performance in this context doesn't mean "live show" it means the theatre and spectacle of identity conveyed on record

I don't understand why anyone would want to harass a DJ and start talking about authenticity when they're trying to dance and have a good time, get those weirdos out your venue

why wouldn't it apply? The effect is the same - how successful is the performance is the measure.

oh 100%. A few weeks ago my washing machine seemed to be broken and flooded my kitchen. I had a plumber out cos I couldn't even begin to fathom taking the risk of trying to fix it myself. The guy had it sorted in five mins and wanted £50 for the call-out and "labour." They're the smart ones, really.

It's why I think it's fucked up we assume people with good grades can go into top jobs - they might actually be completely useless. I was socially hopeless when I was 15 and it took me a long time to learn how the stuff they don't teach you academically in school and education.

I got the best possible grades in my exams in 4th year of high school, the equivalent of a run of only A's at GCSE. But I'm not smart at all, really - I just learned how to recognise patterns in questions and what scripts to use as answers. So for example, I remember SOH CAH TOA being important...

I think r&b is a genre built on performance and the conviction of it. So whether it's about being sexy or being heartbroken or being loved-up or being angry, the best r&b will take those emotions to their extreme - sexier than sex itself, more tears than the ocean's water, the greatest love any...

I hate Dawkins and people like him because his staunch defiant atheism makes it harder for me explain humanism as a belief - that I don't actually give a fuck about whether there is a god or whatever because it's irrelevant to how I want to live and the values I admire in others, that humanism...

what's the difference, really

this press blitz must have went better than expected

incredible

Yeah it's really easy for me to write off e.g. solo Chris Brown because the music and performance does nothing for me regardless of his public persona

I always think about how there's no context-free version of "Free Nelson Mandela" or "Candle In The Wind 97" and that it's unfair to pretend you can listen to some things without background and authorial intent but not others.

I love R Kelly's music and wrestle with it - it has brought me so much pleasure over the years but there's no world that exists where context doesn't exist and he's not a massive sex beast, and it's always going to be present when I experience the music.

the biggest inspiration on the music I make!

I've been to Cambridge twice in my life, once as a young teenager, but I know exactly where this is and what it sounds and smells like, and it's creeping me out

finally listening to Gayest Tits & Greyest Shits and it's so good

one of the things I hate about art criticism is when someone says "anyone could do that!" - yeah, but they did and you didn't, that's why it's art

in theory I'm all about the death of the author and how meaning comes from the act of interpretation, and that's why I believe taste is about the self's personal politics as much as pure aesthetics (if there can be such a thing) - but in actuality I'm not putting on a Gary Glitter or R Kelly...

Doing God's work