March 05, 2003

Chrissie's Hynde End

That would be Chrissy Hynde. You can read a lot of commentary on her latest antics just about everywhere, but I picked Damien Penny's site because it contains a snippet of a fawning article on her. It seems Ms. Hynde was at Kent State in 1970, and witnessed the infamous killings. I'm sure she was. However, I have heard that sort of thing before, perhaps not as frequently as I have heard "I was at Woodstock, man," but I have heard it. Kent State must have had an enrollment of a million in 1970.

As for Hynde, I have never seen what the big deal was about her. People made a lot of fuss about her because she was oooh, a woman! In the misogynistic, he-man profession of rock 'n' roll! Which of course ignored the fact that there were plenty of women in rock -- think of Heart, and Joan Jett, and so on. Oh, but women like that didn't have any "punk" cred. (Though I never understood where these "punk" credentials were supposed to come from. When it came to music, her group's output was about as 'punk" as Willie Nelson's. I think they came mainly from the fact that she lived in England during the punk craze.) And she always struck me as a jerk, what with that rad mid-Atlantic, semi-British accent she affected because she went and lived there, and her "I worked at Melody Maker" (or was it NME, I forget), and her fashionable vegetarianism, which as usual is the in-your-face, obnoxious sort. Also, she dicked over Jim Kerr (of Simple Minds, whom she married and divorced some time in the Eighties) pretty good if you ask me. And I've never cared for her music; I thought it was bland and poppy. That "Brass in Pocket" song is one of the most annoying songs on earth.

Anyway, Chrissie "hopes the Muslims win." Thus spake a moron. It goes without saying that she seems to have no idea that women like her would be beaten and shoved into a burka in a Muslim paradise of a certain kind in no time flat. And at her age, she'd be lucky to be sold as a slave. But don't bother (washed-up, overrated) "stars" like her with the facts.

Posted by Andrea Harris at March 5, 2003 09:51 AM
Comments

I got the impression from the quotes I saw that this is pretty much like any other political statements she's ever made: she doesn't really believe that @#$!!, she's just trying to get attention.

Posted by: Kevin McGehee at March 5, 2003 at 10:22 AM

Wow. Just when you think you've heard the dumbest thing a "celebrity" could say about foreign policy, someone comes out and resets the scale.

applauds

This is a contest right? Because no one could really be that stupid.

Posted by: Marm at March 5, 2003 at 10:24 AM

I hate it when old pop stars crawl out from under the rocks. I just had to explain to some teenagers who Chrissie Hynde is and why anyone should care. It was like finding a bottle of month old milk and opening it.

Posted by: scooterboy at March 5, 2003 at 10:52 AM

She sounds like an awful human being, but I did like her music...aren't there any musicians (other than pure country) who have their heads screwed on properly?

Posted by: David Foster at March 5, 2003 at 12:35 PM

David: Kid Rock is pro-invasion, and also pro-celebrities shutting the hell up. I may have to start liking him.

Posted by: Marm at March 5, 2003 at 01:56 PM

The only thing I know about Hynde is that Limbaugh uses one of her songs for a theme song and bumper music. She hates it, and Rush knows it...

Posted by: Dave Worley at March 5, 2003 at 02:30 PM

I wouldn’t boycott artists for making anti-war statements – most of the things they say so dumb - it doesn’t make me angry, it’s just disappointing.

But saying that she hopes al-Qaeda wins, being pro-fascist - that makes Chrissy worth boycotting. It’s too bad, I don’t really hate her music. I guess I’ll just have to start listening to Rush Limbaugh.

Posted by: mary at March 5, 2003 at 06:53 PM

'(other than pure country)'

One of these days, you kids will understand. When that day comes, I want yall to remember me. One voice, one guitar...

Posted by: Scott at March 5, 2003 at 10:59 PM

I hope the Muslims win too; I just disagree with Hynde about who's on their side.

Hynde seems to have had a long career of making outrageously idiotic public statements. I didn't know that she supported the fatwa against Salman Rushdie far more unambiguously than Cat Stevens did.

Posted by: Matt McIrvin at March 6, 2003 at 08:08 AM

I doubt if Rush could use one of her songs without permission. Unless it's outlived copyright, which I doubt.

Oops. I just found out that he can. Silly me.

I wondered about how everyone was all of a sudden using old Who songs, like CSI and CSI Miami. Dunno if they're out of copyright, or just needed the money.

Posted by: David Perron at March 6, 2003 at 08:17 AM

Slightly off topic, but the litmus test for whether someone was at Woodstock:

If they look at you (figuratively) like you're nuts when you mention how generally miserable the conditions were there and then say something like it was all great, they generally weren't there. Doesn't mean I did not enjoy it, but anyone who was there knows exactly what I mean and immediately agrees, especially given the perspective of time.

Posted by: Gary at March 6, 2003 at 10:30 AM

"Limbaugh uses one of her songs for a theme song and bumper music. She hates it, and Rush knows it..."

HAHAHAHAHA! Just f***ing beautiful!

Regarding "I hope the Muslims win", I am firmly of the belief that anyone who expresses such nonsense should be immediately put into a burqa and put in the indenture of one of those Muslims. I hear Germaine Greer is already wearing one (but she hasn't actually left Australia yet).

Posted by: Ken Summers at March 6, 2003 at 11:45 AM

BTW, I was not actually at Woodstock, but my third cousin's uncle's best friend once met a fella that actually shook hands with someone who was there. That's almost like being there, right?

Posted by: Ken Summers at March 6, 2003 at 11:49 AM

So, why did they name the music festival after Snoopy's feathered friend?

Posted by: Kevin McGehee at March 6, 2003 at 02:10 PM

Here here! I'm so tired of celebs peeing in our national cornflakes. On the other hand, it's not often that one has the guts, the cojones, the stones, to be flat out, America-hating, treasonous, bile-dripping nasty about it. For that, Ms. Hynde deserves our props. She has more guts and intelligence than most of the yellow-bellied fungus in the peace movement.

That said, I greatly enjoyed yer slam on her... if you want to check out a testosterone, beef & bourbon fueled blast at Ms. Hynde, you can check out my right here. Cover your kids' eyes first tho.

Posted by: Omnibus Bill at March 6, 2003 at 05:16 PM

It's smack in the face to every veteran who as ever served, fought, or died to protect the freedoms that we too often take for granted. I wonder if she'd be spewing the same filth if her smart ass mouth was filled with poison gas from Saddam. Having an opposing opinion, or being on the outside is one thing, this is the worst, the lowest. Her attitude has always been fuck 'em, well FUCK YOU Chris, no really FUCK YOU.

Tim Hynde

Posted by: Tim Hynde at March 12, 2003 at 03:16 PM