“Are you hearing this shit?” breathes out Mike Patton with despair in his face, listening to the Wolfmother live show while being interviewed. “What year you are in? Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck… Help me, am I fucking crazy? Oh my god, enough already! Are people that stupid? I guess they are. I don’t even have to say it, you’ve got ears.” His face is almost scared, ghastly astonished. He looks like he is convincing himself to believe what he’s hearing.
The surge of umbrage
All those out-of-date rockers, who dare to insist on “Faith No More was good, but now…” look like Patton was their pain in the ass for a very long time. Like Mr. Harrison on Music Towers - “I have been a loyal devotee to your various projects and experiments over the years…”, (in whose Patton, exposes his flout all those years, but musically), starts kicking immedieately after Patton says his opinion in public. An answer to this, could be a shot from Patton’s performance, where you can experience his physical poetry and barking scat-core beatbox.
Along with Harrison, thousands of touched narrow-minded good-old-rock-lovers on YouTube. They reveal words like “Mike Patton ripped off Red Hot Chilli Peppers” - what?? They unpack those same-old-pattern discussions full of grammy-winning, ripping other bands, and what is sensible music, good music and what is music at all.
This is the man that said wolfmother sucked? This is not music, some of you are trying hard to convince yourselves that it is but it isn’t. This pretentious dipshit is probably laughing at you as we speak because he can do anything and be praised by his whores. He thinks he’s a genius who is above reproach but it’s time to stop experimenting with this bullshit and make music. Until then, he can’t say shit about anybody.
Oh come on, enough already. This is so backward-thinking, I am in despair pretty much same as Patton was. And in the end, there is always a good piece of advice: “So Patton just get on and reform Faith no More and play something more popular.” Thank you Mr. Harrison, we appreciate your pedagogical movement.
My people, music is but one!
Patton is also known for utilizing a wide variety of vocal styles and techniques; as such, his performances include airy falsetto passages, Sinatra-esque lounge crooning, death metal grunts, Medieval-style chanting, an abrasive take on scat singing featuring various shrieks, screeches, and the occasional jostling of his Adam’s apple while singing; as well as beatboxing and a variety of authentic-sounding vocal emulations of flowing water, a train, a computer voice, or other items. Critic Greg Prato writes, “Patton could very well be one of the most versatile and talented singers in rock music.”
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