Guns ‘N Reprimands
Chinese Democracy, the Guns ‘N Roses album that has taken 14 years to complete, is finally out. “When the new GNR album comes out” had almost become the new “When hell freezes over”, but you never know with global warming. Naturally there are rumors of a reunion tour next year, with the whole band, i.e. Axl Rose and Slash together. In the 90s Axl refused to be in the same building with Slash, claiming he was a psychic vampire.
The Chinese state newspaper Global Times has described the album as “a venomous attack on China.” The paper went on to say that the band “turns its spear point on China”. Ay, mixed metaphor.
I have only one question. Is the album any good? Because if you’re going to tick off a country, better be worth the trouble. Anyone can say “It rocks!” but I want something polysyllabic, with explanations.
Meanwhile, Axl Rose’s lawyers fired off a letter to the soft drink manufacturer Dr. Pepper reminding them to make good on their promise to give free soda to everyone in America when Chinese Democracy came out. So many people went to the manufacturer’s website to get their coupon that the site crashed. Cough up, Dr. Pepper.
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November 28th, 2008 at 23:17
it’s overproduced. think a whole album of ‘november rain’-sounding songs. but hey, axl rose is back, and he still rocks.