Phil Collins: "I was pretty irritating"

[Akula]

Good interview with Phil C0llins:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/86056244/phil-collins-i-was-pretty-irritating

My take:
I don't really get why people piled on the guy. Honestly, I like his music, even if some of it just isn't my bag. Some of it I find brilliant and incredibly listenable. I get that sometimes our culture just wants to have a two minutes' hate on somebody*, but I never understood why Phil Collins was a target. Even if he was insufferable, he was nowhere near the level of insufferable douche that we regularly see from modern "artists." As he looks back, he seems to have reached a good place, but he admits the criticism still gets to him.

Anyway, I thought you all would find this interesting.


*In a culture that is so focused on tolerance, I suppose the intolerance has to be relieved somehow, and it's apparently through pile-ons on people we've collectively found annoying. This isn't really a healthy way of coping.

 

[Botch]

Will read the interview tomorrow. Because of the snowstorm here I came home early, caught up on a few TDS episodes, including an interview with Phil.
It was on a now-defunct musician forum that kind've fragmented after the 9/11 attacks; someone posted a thread, "Phil Collins Sucks" more as a happy interruption than anything, but it seemed to set up a decades-long discussion/argument field regarding him. I never got it either; Phil always seemed to be having fun, was always good natured, and funny.
He kinda disappeared for awhile, and I understand he came quite close to suicide. He still didn't have his "old spark", talking to Trevor Noah. Sad.