Ariel Pink's campaign for "hot takes" president of Earth is running very smoothly, and he added plenty of strong statements to his already-impressive trolling resumé this week.
The 36-year-old musician sat down with SPIN to verball destroy The Eurythmics, an 80s snythpop group best known for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)."
Here is the exchange (SPIN asked Pink his thoughts on "Sweet Dreams"):
Do you prefer any of the cover versions of this track? No, I don't like the covers either. I don't like Marilyn Manson. I really don't even like this song at all, or the Eurythmics in general. I find them to be extremely foul, but "Here Comes the Rain Again" is mildly enjoyable.
What about this song provokes such a strong reaction from you? I find [Annie Lennox's] whole comfort level with the camera to be very off-putting. It was something of a novel thing back then, so she had some sort of charisma that translated beyond the normal performance. It's just made for the camera. And [the Eurythmics'] Dave Stewart makes me want to fucking commit suicide.
He's just like the Linda Perry of the era. He's got his hand helping everybody writing songs. He was good with synthesizers and stuff like that, so all of a sudden all of these old stalwarts who didn't know how to transfer over into the video era - Bob Dylan was calling him up, Tom Petty. And he was involved with everything because he was the person who could program shit and they didn't know how to deal with this transition into the synthesized [sound]. That's what was popular then.
That's pretty hurtful stuff. Our hearts especially go out to Dave Stewart, who did next to nothing to deserve blame for Pink's suicide, hypothetical or otherwise.
But all of this was business as usual for AP, who recently trashed Madonna for no apparent reason.
