HOW DARE WE NOT APPRECIATE FRANKIE PALMERI
One fun thing about being Frankie Palmeri is that he rarely has to use his brain — because you can’t use what you don’t have it. And so, the Emmure frontman recently sent out this tweet:
And as one of these “unappreciative fucks,” I have a few things to say about this particular assertion:
- No one ever said that Palmeri “should or shouldn’t be writing about” any particular topic. If he wants to write about video games and aliens and watching a woman give some other dude a blowjob, that’s his right as an artist and an American. But once he releases his work for public consumption, it becomes the right of the listener to say “I don’t like this and I think it’s stupid.”
- “What a horrid age?” Seriously? So there was no such thing as criticism in previous eras? This is something new that just sprung up with the advent of the internet? C’mon, dude! That’s crazy. Next you’ll be telling me that a character from Final Fantasy is a spiritual deity or something.
- Re: “unappreciative fucks”… I refer you back to point #1. Just because you make something doesn’t mean people have to appreciate it. For example, right now Frankie is reading MetalSucks, and Frankie is thinking “Dis webbsyet iz 4 faguts” or something, and that’s fine, we don’t need everyone to like everything we do. The only time you HAVE to appreciate that someone wrote something JUST because he or she wrote it is when that someone is mentally and/or physically handicapped, and the very act of picking up a pencil or pen or typing or having a coherent thought is an achievement. If Covan writes “Jews have horns and tails,” I will stand up and applaud him. But if Frankie writes “I wanna watch you suck his dick,” well, there’s really nothing noteworthy about that per se, is there?
And by the way, some of the responses Palmeri got from followers were also fucking hilarious. For example:
I’m sure Frankie does himself plenty already, but thanks for the advice, Dr. Phil. Just FYI, we give Frankie shit because he’s inadvertently funny, not because we’re jealous. What is there to be jealous of? If we wanted to dress like Fred Durst’s little brother, we’d just wander over to Foot Locker and buy the appropriate clothes. It’s not like they have a guy working the door or something.
-AR
[via The PRP]
