Mark Kozelek unfortunately hit a new low after making some disgusting comments about a female journalist onstage during a gig in London earlier this week.
A sold-out 1900 strong crowd at the Barbican listened as the Sun Kil Moon frontman sung an impromptu song about Laura Snapes, a writer for Uncut mag who had been assigned the tough task of interviewing the muso.
Kozelek sung the lyrics,”there’s this girl named Laura Snapes, she’s a journalist. She’s out to do a story on me, has been contacting a lot of people that know me,” going on to repeat the words “Laura Snapes totally wants to fuck me, get in line, bitch, Laura Snapes totally wants to have my babies.”
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Once word got out about Kozelek’s tirade, op-eds taking him down spread like wildfire, and now Snapes has eloquently annihilated him for his appalling display in a piece on The Guardian (via Stereogum).
Snapes first explains that she had requested a face-to-face interview weeks before the performance, to which she was politely denied as Kozelek is “too scattered and distracted on tour”, Snapes therefore conducted her interview via e-mail, as well as contacting his peers for supporting interviews, which clearly pissed him off, leading to the upsetting attack.
Snapes then dives straight into the issue, standing up for the many others that have been harassed by Kozelek (eg. The War On Drugs): “He [Kozelek] impugns online ‘bitching and whining’, but hides behind one-way email exchanges, balks at the idea of his peers speaking about him and issues tirades (and sometimes, sexual advances) from the cowardly remove of the stage, with the get-out clause that it’s a performance.”
She then shoots down his repugnant commentary, “He can use sexually violent language to reduce female critics to the status of groupies, knowing that while male musicians’ misogynist acts are examined for nuance and defended as traits of ‘difficult’ artists, women and those who call them out are treated as hysterics who don’t understand art.”
It’s gravely disappointing to see Mark Kozelek continually drag his own name through the mud, especially when he’s released some of the most important music of the past 20-odd years like his opus, Benji. We really suggest that you give Snapes’ full article a read which can be found here.
