Nicole Powers: Amanda Palmer: Rebel With A Cause

I love Amanda Palmer. Manko are you wearing a cat mask at about 50 seconds in to the video?

Great interview.

How dare a record company tell an artist how best to represent/deal with their own experience, and especially anything as personal as rape/abortion. And that's an indie label. Oh, the great dumbing down!

Thank god, though, there are artists (writers, musicians, what-have-you) willing to fight to retain their integrity. (Go, Amanda, go!)

I don't even understand the flack about her stomach in the "Leeds United" video. For one thing, it's not even prominently displayed--but from what you do see of it... Is the problem that she's a real woman with a real stomach? The powers that be are going to not show such an awesome video over something as fucking stupid as that?!

Makes a person worry.

I'm glad I am not the only one in love with this woman and what she is doing. Seriously.
I've been listening to the Dresden Dolls for years at this point (one of my first encounters was actually at an SG Burlesque show, when one of the ladies performed to "Missed Me"), and I've never been able to stop.
One Amanda released her album I was not in the least bit let down, and everything she has done has only given me more respect for her.

Also, I am officially jealous of Manko

Hopefully things work out for the best, sadly, people like Amanda are going to have to keep standing up and fighting for a bit longer before Corporation Knuckleheads will get the point.

It is sickening the way that Amanda and other artists are being censored to sell records. Just because they don't talk about trivial things in their songs and are really reaching into their souls they should be supported fully. Unfortunately the entertainment industry is less about real artistry and creativity and more about making a shit ton of money.

amanda is a genius. and yes unfortunately the music industry is just about money such bullshit amanda is just a plain fucking genius

what tummy? it's pretty fucking depressing to think that her size is unacceptable. but, seeing as that's how it is pretty much everywhere, i'm going to go puke up my lunch.

i thought the oasis video was sad...i mean listening to the lyrics but it just made it interesting to hear the music it was going with. i thought it was rad.

I really enjoyed reading that interview, I always knew that Amanda Palmer was something else; I just didn't realize just exactly how cool she is
Here's hoping she can cut through the damn record industry bullshit and continue to produce her music, her way, and the execs be damned!

I hope the best for her...her vision and honesty are all too rare in the world of music.

Hot damn, I was in it too!!!!
I thought for sure I would have recognised you in person :/

I fucking adore AFP. Seen her.. ten times(?) now.

PS - Manko (and everyone) looks so hot in the Leeds United video. (Belly? WTF Roadrunner?)

J'taime Amanda!

I fucking love Amanda Palmer and want to have her guitar shredding babies.

What really gets me is that record labels support songs such as "Smack My Bitch Up" but not an intelligent song about circumstances women face today. Fucking idiots.

I think it's very possible that they didn't support the song simply because it wasn't good. No offense, but this song is pretty awful. Maybe a minor chord would have improved it. I think most of the controversy was created in her mind, there is no way many people gave much thought to this below mediocre song.

I met her when she was touring with NIN she was so kind to me and beautiful I could hardly speak!