Watch: Amanda Palmer “Creep” around Wanderlust Festival grounds
This past week saw the first annual Wanderlust Festival bring the music and the yoga to Lake Tahoe, California. It also brought with it some improvisation, both in terms of schedule changes — Common was tapped as a last minute replace after Michael Franti ruptured his appendix — and performances.
Take the below video for example. As far as we can tell, Amanda Palmer’s covering Radiohead’s “Creep” by a lake and using a ukulele, while dressed in a bikini probably wasn’t planned. But that’s just our guess…
Are you kidding? Is this supposed to be music?
Palmer’s version of Creep was appallingly bad. Seriously, does Palmer post stuff all over the web? Amanda Palmer is not a musician, she’s more of a performance artist except I don’t get what the message is because she does all the same things that Paris Hilton and Britney Spears do; she sells her body and performs sexual innuendos with inanimate objects. It all seems to be mindless self promotion to get notoriety at any cost. Amanda Palmer reminds me of Courtney Love; empty rebellion when her underlying motivations are really money and power and the minute she gets money she tries to buy her way into the next social strata. There is no there, there with Palmer and that’s the reason why she has this weird audience of twenty friends that show up whenever she pulls another stunt while the rest of us look on and say… meh.
Yeah, Amanda Palmer’s voice is memorable like a siren going off and searing your eardrums until they bleed and beg for mercy. Amanda Palmer should be used as a sonic weapon to destroy the enemy because listening to her awful caterwauling wail makes people want to slit their own wrists to escape. I am really believing the Scientology theory with her now, that she’s a Scientlogist along with Gaiman, because people despise shitty music, yet she is all over the internet. Who is putting this crap up????
Bottomline is Amanda Palmer is mediocre. She’s clearly tone deaf, can’t sing, can’t play and writes crap songs. Palmer is boring and predictable… the minute she loses her audience’s attention, off come her clothes and she calls it “art.” The minute her record company doesn’t want to promote her awful record, she whines and claims they think she’s “fat.” Now she’s jumped on the Gaiman train, which really makes me think she is a crazy workaholic Scientologist, spending every waking minute publicizing her dopey record. The book for Who Killed Amanda Palmer is a vanity project. There is no publisher attached— no one would touch it. That’s how Gaiman started his book career, self publishing and using his Scientology connections to get ahead. The sooner her 15 minutes are up, the better.
I’m a big AFP fan and thought her own set was great. But man, that cover of We Are the Champions was awful.
Yes, Amanda Palmer’s voice was “clear” and it definitely radiates around…unfortunately it is soooo often off key that her version of “Champions of the World” with the Honey Brothers sent me scurrying off the mountain with my ears covered. Also heard her in the village and again, so pitchy. Felt like I was watching the outtakes of “American Idol” and wondering why family and/or friends haven’t told her she can’t sing. (Simon Cowell would SHRED her!) She has a wonderful, confident presence…now she just needs a vocal coach. Very hard on the ears!
Wow… I felt uncomfortable and joy all at the same time. She has a amazingly clear voice that radiates through the wind and rocks in a strange way making her version of “Creep” very memorable.