John Lennon was certainly a lolcow in life, especially now that the story of his life has been revisited, leading many to realize that he was actually a massive piece of shit and a fucktard.
People were making fun of how much of a smug twat he was when he was alive, to the point where he had to backtrack and pretend songs like Working Class Hero was ackchually a parody. Mark David Chapman did nothing wrong.
Roger Waters may be the smuggest (is that even a word?) musician of all time. He LARPs like a tankie but he knows he’s way too rich to actually be a tankie. So he takes these hypocritical positions because he really wants people to think he’s tapped into the consensus of the working class.
David Gilmour is not much better. He brought back the Pink Floyd name hoping to relaunch the band for some retarded pro Ukraine song that significantly underperformed on the charts (Rise Up). Then he had to pretend it was a one off, probably killing off any more chances for a revival or a reunion. Which is a good thing.
The thing with MIA is that she acted like a teenager when she was middle aged. Her peak moment of cringe was performing in the Super Bowl, acting like a snotty teenager when she actually was about 40 fucking years old. Her song paper planes is when she was 33. Also don’t forget that she cried that her relationship to Diplo was “abusive” which she’s never able to provide any proof or really elaborate on.
I think what makes a pop culture singer, rapper, etc. a lolcow is when they refuse to grow up. Eminem, MIA, Roger Waters, etc. still act like they’re working class heroes in their teens or early 20s. Guys like The Rolling Stones last because they know that people like them for their hits back in the day and collect millions in royalties doing what they do best. Mick Jagger or Keith Richards know nobody cares what they think so they just get on with it.
All I can think of is Karl Logan from Manowar getting busted for CP since that was relatively recently (and very ironic given suggestive Manowar songs like "Pleasure Slave")
Venom just seems tongue in cheek. Outside of Mayhem, I don't think any of the 1st wave of Black Metal artists are real lolcows. The 2nd and 3rd waves, however, is prime lolcow farming.
That one lyric in Hail and Kill (May your sword stay wet/like a young girl in her prime) has even more awkwardness to it.
Venom just seems tongue in cheek. Outside of Mayhem, I don't think any of the 1st wave of Black Metal artists are real lolcows. The 2nd and 3rd waves, however, is prime lolcow farming.
A lot of the 2nd wave guys got mentioned. The following waves got split between being more and more pozzed and pseudointellectual and the ones who want to keep BM "trve".
And for tax: A Sound of Thunder is kinda lolcowy due to having TDS and calling any and everyone Nazis, and themselves Nazihunters.
Another one is the (former) vocalist of Noble Beast. Somewhat of a personal lolcow, he was an uber liberal who would screech on facebook about the most minute things (like kids saying gay in a derogatory manner). Then, news came out that he would yell slurs at his wife and was also a pedophile.
I think what makes a pop culture singer, rapper, etc. a lolcow is when they refuse to grow up. Eminem, MIA, Roger Waters, etc. still act like they’re working class heroes in their teens or early 20s. Guys like The Rolling Stones last because they know that people like them for their hits back in the day and collect millions in royalties doing what they do best. Mick Jagger or Keith Richards know nobody cares what they think so they just get on with it.
The only reason why Amy Winehouse isn't on that list is because she drank herself to death before she was able to reach the age of Eminem's Fifty-something arse whilst doing the same, BPD-laden Autism that led to her death.
I know people bring up Brian Wilson as a lolcow (and he without a doubt is despite making some of my favorite songs) and Mike Love as a conservalolcow.
But let's agree that Murry Wilson was definitely the Barbara Chandler of the music world
The fate of the world is safe in Crystal Castles...
If you were around in the peak of the blogosphere-indie sleaze adjacent communities in the late 00s/early 10s, the name Crystal Castles may be very familiar to you. However since their peak, the last 10 years for them have been one of constant turmoil and milk. Will try my best to concisely pack the last decade into this one comment. But bare with me, there is quite a bit to cover.
Base Lore
Crystal Castles were an incredibly revered Canadian electronic duo mainly making electropop, pioneering and defining the burgeoning chiptune and witch house bloghouse sub-genres in the process. Initially formed in 2006 by former Kïll Cheerleadër bassist Ethan Kath (legal: Claudio Palmieri) and vocalist Alice Glass (legal: Margaret Osborn), with a then-25 year old Kath having met a young Glass when she was 15, living in a squat and member of an all girl experimental punk group, Fetus Fatale. Some years later, Kath reached out to Glass needing a vocalist for a heap of instrumental tracks he had been working on, to which Glass was secretly recorded by a sound engineer recording vocals for their debut single: Alice Practice.
Soon after its release, it started to make waves on blogs like Pitchfork and the duo was soon invited to "perform" the track on the infamous UK teen-centric drama "Skins", picking up a good lot of success and notoriety from this appearance.
The group later released the critically lauded debut Crystal Castles in 2008, building a cult following through subsequently lauded follow up albums, 2012's Crystal Castles (II) and 2013's (III) and front-woman Glass' energetic in-your-face performances where her stage diving, writhing around on the ground, drinking whiskey from the bottle, chuffing back cigarettes while heckling with the crowd were expected commonplace.
from a performance in 2011
Everything seemed good and fine with the group until...
2014 to 2020
Alice suddenly announces on Twitter that she's leaving Crystal Castles, that the band was finished and that she intended to start a solo career. This abrupt decision shocked everybody in the music community, as the duo had just came off the back of the release of their critically acclaimed third album (III) and a slate of sold-out gigs and international festival performances. Nobody could have predicted this breakup. The bands management scrambled to address Glass' abrupt departure stating the band would continue without her.
In 2015, Crystal Castles released their first single since Glass' departure, with Kath breaking his silence stating that he wished Glass well in her future endeavors, and that she didn't appear on any of the duo's best known songs:
i wish my former vocalist the best of luck in her future endeavors. i think it can be empowering for her to be in charge of her own project. it should be rewarding for her considering she didn’t appear on Crystal Castles’ best known songs
The statement was soon scrubbed and Glass responded:
In the middle of the year, Crystal Castles released another single and soon announced their first debut show with Glass' replacement Edith Frances (legal: Margo Hamman) a former model Kath met at a house party and followed home to ask to join Crystal Castles. The re-formed duo released the album Amnesty (I) the following year to polarizing reviews, mostly lampooning Edith's presence as Glass' replacement, which alienated fans and critics alike.
Alice later would imply that she was "mistreated and manipulated" during her time in Crystal Castles and finally released her much anticipated solo single Stillbirth, a song she stated was inspired by an abusive relationship.
Soon after, Crystal Castles were abbruptly removed from a Tumblr-hosted SXSW showcase, with Glass stating:
As someone who knew Ethan Kath on a personal and professional level, it is my opinion that he is not an appropriate artist to be performing at a feminism-centric event.
We've removed Crystal Castles from the lineup of the 79 Cents party. We don't know the facts around comments made about a member of the band, and we're not going to engage in an investigation around it. We're hosting this event to highlight gender disparity issues, something that Tumblr and our community cares deeply about, and we don't want the band's presence to distract from this important mission.
Crystal Castles 2: The Electric Boogaloo would continue to tour and play gigs throughout the remainder of 2016 and 17, until Alice released a statement explicitly accusing Ethan of subjecting her to sexual, physical and mental abuse during her time in Crystal Castles.
Some of you may be aware that I’ve opened up about my experiences with abuse in the past. I’ve been very guarded about the information I’ve given and I haven’t publicly named names—because I’ve been afraid. I’ve been threatened and harassed and as a result, out of fear, I’ve been silenced.
The momentum that’s been created recently by the many courageous women who have opened up about their own stories has inspired me to finally be more direct, at whatever cost. This is for my own recovery, for the other women who have been, are currently, or may be in a similar situation with the man who abused me for years, and for those in abusive relationships who are looking to stand up and speak out.
I met “Ethan Kath” (Claudio Palmieri) when I was in the 10th grade. The first time he took advantage of me was when I was around 15. He was 10 years older than me. I came to in the back of his car extremely intoxicated (from drinks he had given me that night). We didn’t talk for months after that. He went to great lengths to find me again, stalking me and driving past my high school looking for me.
He tracked me down and showed up places I was hanging out and we eventually reconnected. I was very young and naive and in a compromised position in my life. I perceived him as a local rock star because I had seen his band, Kill Cheerleader, on TV. A lot of my friends from the punk scene had also been taken advantage of by much older men, so to me, it was a situation that had been normalized.
Claudio was very manipulative towards me. He figured out my insecurities and exploited them: he used the things he learned about me against me. Over a period of many months, he gave me drugs and alcohol and had sex with me in an abandoned room at an apartment he managed. It wasn’t always consensual and he remained sober whenever we were together.
When I was 16 or 17 he gave me a CD of songs and asked me to write and sing over them. I took the songs home and wrote lyrics and melodies and we recorded the tracks I iked. But even with music, he created a toxic environment that I often felt I had to go along with. While recording our first EP, the recording engineer sexually harassed me while we were in the studio. Claudio laughed at me and pressured me to go along with it. He called our first single “Alice Practice” and said my vocals were a mic test. He concocted that story and told press it was an “accidental” recording, intentionally diminishing my role in its creation. It was another way of putting me down and preying on my insecurities.
Soon after, we were invited to tour the UK. I was overwhelmed by how quickly things were happening for us, and Claudio convinced me to drop out of high school only 2 credits away from graduation. As we started to gain attention, he began abusively and systematically targeting my insecurities and controlling my behavior: my eating habits, who I could talk to, where I could go, what I could say in public, what I was allowed to wear. He kept me from doing interviews or photoshoots unless he was in control of the situation. Our fame grew in Crystal Castles but he didn’t feel he was getting the recognition he thought he deserved.
He became physically abusive. He held me over a staircase and threatened to throw me down it. He picked me up over his shoulders and threw me onto concrete. He took pictures of my bruises and posted them online. I tried to leave, and he swore that it would never happen again, that he would never physically abuse me again. More severe psychological and emotional abuse took its place.
He controlled everything I did. I wasn’t allowed to have my own phone or my own credit card, he decided who my friends were, read through my private emails, restricted my access to social media, regulated everything I ate. He berated me and yelled at me, telling me that I was a joke, that all the people that came to our shows were only interested in his instrumentals and that I was ruining the band. He broke glass showe doors to frighten me, he locked me into rooms. He told me that my feminism made me a target for rapists and only he could protect me. He forced me to have sex with him or, he said, I wouldn’t be allowed to be in the band anymore.
I was miserable and my lyrics indirectly spoke to the pain and oppression that I was enduring. But as is sometimes the case in abusive relationships, his cruelty was often followed by kindness. He was very good at keeping his terrible treatment of me private. He was charming sometimes, he was hyper protective and most of all I loved the band we had together. But he often told me how replaceable I was. He’d even tell me that he was actively looking for someone to replace me. He kept me insecure and on edge, and then would tell me that he was the only one it the world that believed in me. He told me it was us against everyone, because everyone else thought I was a loser, a joke, a talentless dancing clown. I believed him. I was suicidal for years.
Leaving Crystal Castles was the single most difficult decision I’ve ever made—that band was everything to me. My music, my performances and my fans were all I had in the world. I gave that up and started over not because I wanted to but because I had to. As difficult as it was, I knew that leaving was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. It has taken me years to recover from enduring almost a decade of abuse, manipulation and psychological control. I am still recovering.
Alice soon followed up her statement releasing a bunch of emails from her former manager wherein she states Kath's abuse towards her by throwing her phone out of a car window, pulling out her hair in the scuffle:
Kath would swiftly attempt to silence Glass by filing a lawsuit on the grounds of defamation, which was dismissed a year later in 2018
Prior to Glass' statement, in late 2016 through to late 17, fanblogs on Tumblr would pop-up, sought to expose Kath's behavior, and Kath and his minions would work tirelessly to take down any posts made on the CC subreddit in order to silence them. A lot of these fanblogs had their own meta-drama due to taking sides and claiming that Alice and Jupter Keyes – the former keyboardist of noise rock group HEALTH, Glass' later husband and producer – were on purposely smereing Kath and manipulating people into spouting negative views of Kath. A lot of these have been lost with blogs being deactivated and terminated, unfortunately.
Several women would later come forward to accuse Kath of misconduct, all of which occurred when these women were in their early to mid teens.
In 2002, Sarah* met Ethan Kath at a film shoot in Toronto.
His band, which went by the name Cheerleader at the time, was playing a set for the film. Sarah told The Daily Beast that she approached him as a fan and struck up a conversation, in which she remembers Kath “specifically” asking her age. She was 14 at the time. He was 24. [...] To celebrate her 15th birthday, Sarah’s parents drove her to a Cheerleader show in Kitchener, Ontario. After the show, she says Kath told her to come with him to take a picture.
“He brought me backstage into a dark area, grabbed a blowup doll, told me to hold it, proceeded to lick my face and take the picture,” Sarah recalled. “I did not consent to this and honestly, I just remember freezing and believing I was lucky to receive the attention even though I felt it was wrong.”
In 2005, Dana Wright met Ethan Kath online.
He messaged her on Myspace from an account under the name Kill Cheerleader, she told The Daily Beast. (An email Myspace sent to Wright confirms that the account “Kill Cheerleader” requested her as a friend in October 2005). She was 15 at the time; her age was displayed in her profile. The week of her 16th birthday, Wright claims Kath suggested they “hang out and celebrate.” [...] “He picked me up, and we went to my high school friend’s kegger party,” she recalled. “What fucking 29-year-old goes to a grade 10 kegger party?” Wright remembers they eventually left the party, and that Kath pulled out a blanket from the trunk of his car. He “made a move” on her: “I didn’t know what to do, I wasn’t expecting it or anything, and I just went with it.” [...] For the next five years, Wright continued to see Kath, who took her to “by-the-hour motels” and empty apartments “with nothing but a dirty mattress on the floor.” Despite their years-long relationship, Kath remained largely inaccessible to her: “I could never contact him, I could never see him when I wanted to, he would just be reaching out to me from random numbers, calling me from pay phones and stuff. And so I would, like, freak out and have to answer whenever a random number was calling, because it would mean it was him.
“The bottom line is that he basically lured me on the internet when I was 15 years old,” she said, adding that she feels her teenage years were “stolen” from her.
In 2012, Leah* met Ethan Kath. A “fan of their band,” Leah wore a Crystal Castles shirt at an English festival when Kath approached her. He was 35 at the time. She was 16, the legal age of consent in England. [...] Leah says she was in a “sexual relationship” with Kath for “about a year.” She described being “very torn” throughout the relationship and eventually ended it because “I wasn’t sure of my feelings, and I didn’t think that what we were doing was right, given my age and his age, and I think I kind of began to realize that it was more of a kind of grooming thing, as opposed to being in a proper, happy relationship.” She recalled, “I called him up and I just said, ‘I’m not sure I want to do this anymore,’ and I never saw him again.”
In 2013, Tash met Ethan Kath after a Crystal Castles show in Auckland. They were 19 at the time. [...] Tash remembered Kath producing a bottle of vodka to drink backstage after the show. He focused his attention on Tash and allegedly encouraged them to drink. “I repeatedly told him I wasn’t interested in him, that I was gay, and that I also had a girlfriend,” Tash recalled. “He would say things like, ‘Have you ever fucked with a guy? You can’t know you’re gay then. I bet you’d like it.’ [...] “He was very touchy with Tash and insisted they go inside the bar where the gig had taken place, which they did,” she said. “At this point Tash was extremely inebriated, even falling straight on their face at one point before that. I remember he was feeling them up and kissing their neck, even kissing them on the lips. This was all after finding out Tash was gay and wouldn’t be interested in him if sober. After the bottle of vodka was done with, he said he wanted to take us out drinking to bars. At the bars he kept giving me, Tash, and another girl drinks. At the end of the night we ended up in a park, but by then Tash was unable to speak because they’d become so drunk.”
Crystal Castles were soon dropped from all future festival appearances, and their gigs also canceled. in late 2017 Kath was later announced to have been the subject of a currently open Sex Crimes unit investigation by the Toronto police service. It is unknown if the investigation procured anything or is still in progress.
In late 2020, Kath's former wife – who was an Alice Glass cosplayer whom Kath met when she was 15 – came forward revealing she had left him and had been victim of his abusive and controlling behavior, all the while he continued to date young girls while with her.
Kath has not been seen or really heard from since these allegations have come to light.
2021 - to present
It seemed like Aliceherself had begun to show herself as a bit of a milky cow in her own right, from taking a lifetime to release music, the music released being an extremely drastic decline in quality, to picking fights with Grimes for allegedly stealing the concept of Grimes' single Kill V. Maim from her and more recently going after useless musician Machine Gun Kelly for copying "underground" musicians ideas and so on. But it seems that may be all orchestrated.
The reason for this post is an on-going ousting of Glass' husband, producer and former member of the Crystal Castles adjacent noise rock group HEALTH.
Some days ago, a woman come forward with her own allegations against Jupiter, citing some familiar abuse themes of that of Kath. Namely, Love-bombing, emotional and sexual abuse, manipulation and drugging.
She states that she first made contact with Jupiter in 2018 when he followed her on Instagram when he thought she was 16 and he was 40.
Some years later Jupiter reached back out to her asking for her to refollow her, and they later started to talk in 2022 – with Jupiter keeping her a secret from Alice.
In 2022, 4 years after following me, Jupiter and I began talking online. It was immediately romantic and sexual. This is when he began love-bombing me, and then, soon after, controlling me.
Jupiter funded for me to fly from Australia to Los Angeles in August of 2022 after only two weeks of speaking to me online. He kept me a secret and flew me out in secret. He told me that he loved me after 3 days, that Alice had left him for dead, that I was his mirror soul, that Jupiter was the ruling planet of my star sign and would have me on the phone for 8-12 hours daily. Jupiter said that he wanted to be given the chance to exploit me.
[...] he makes other people sick. Here I spoke to Jupiter for 8 hours. These types of calls happened every day for months. He also bought me Marc Jacobs perfume, (he put the bag inside out when he reached Australia and laughed because Alice doesn't like Marc Jacobs) roses, lipstick.
She later states that Jupiter demanded she take down an Anorexia recovery post she had made because people like Ethan could use it to exploit her, that it could potentially trigger Alice, and started to exploit her recovery from the disorder by suggesting she restrict her intake and that he could make it a game.
Jupiter told me to take my anorexia recovery post down because "Ethan used to prey on people like that and it'd trigger Alice." Despite Jupiter being the one who would later tell me to consume 600-800 calories daily and to "turn it into a game."
Jupiter would soon demand she start taking down any kind of content where she looked young and curate her feed for "artistic reasons" but it was again, to not upset Alice.
Jupiter told me to take photos off my Instagram page where I looked too young and curated my Instagram feed. He will say this was for artistic reasons, but here he says we mutually agreed that it would make alice upset. I was told to take down 80 posts. In a call I recorded, he lied and said it was two posts and kept negating from actuality. I was consistently dealing with someone who was NEVER wrong despite objectively being So.
Jupiter somehow managed to keep his age under wraps, soon admitting that Ethan knew Jupiter liked young girls and that he was terrified Alice would "Ethan him" when the woman found out he was 18 years older than her.
I didn't know Jupiter's age and he would never tell me. I asked once on his birthday and he changed the topic and started speaking about his cat. In person when he flew to Australia in secret (he said to me he'd tell Alice he was going up to the mountains or San Diego) he was fixing up an Airbnb booking and they asked for his DOB.
Jupiter stuttered on his age and I finally learned his birth year. Jupiter was born in 1978. This meant, he was 18 years older than me. I immediately thought to myself that he was 5 years younger than my dad. I was very triggered and felt mislead. The secrecy is what made it more unsettling for me. I wish he would've been more up front about it. I pretended not to hear his age.
Jupiter sat me on the bed in person after I learned his age and said, "Ethan once said to me that I know you like young girls." I was little Isabell. I was told to hide photos where I looked too young and he flew to Australia in secret. He said that he was scared that Alice would, "Ethan him." There were so many red flags. I googled Ethan's age and realised that Jupiter and Ethan were the same age.
Jupiter later paid for this woman to fly to LA where when she landed in the USA, was intercepted by homeland security under the suspicion of being a human trafficking victim and returned back to Australia.
Then, it was time for us to meet. Two short weeks of excessive love bombing later, Jupiter bought me a flight to Los Angeles. Jupiter also paid $500 to fast-track my passport. On August 9th, 2022, I flew from Australia to Los Angeles. Jupiter first reached out to me on July 21st, 2022. When I arrived, the US deported me due to suspicions of attempted human trafficking.
I didn't make it out of the airport. I was detained for 30 hours and was sent back after being interrogated. I had a temporary visa which didn't allow me to work on a new project with Jupiter, although that's why I was bought a ticket by him.
I expressed in my immigration documentation that we wanted to create lots of music. I have been to the police about this matter and the investigation is still ongoing.
In Jupiter's head, I was his replacement for Alice.
In hindsight, I am grateful that American immigration protected me. If I was with Jupiter at his home in Palm Springs in the middle of nowhere with no support network and no money, who knows what would've happened.
Jupiter soon flew to Australia to meet her, lying to Alice about his location stating he was in the mountains or San Diego, while she stayed oblivious and cared for their plethora of animals.
I finally met Jupiter Keyes in person in October of 2022, when he flew to Australia. Alice was back from her Trauma Bond tour and was told by Jupiter that he was going away for two weeks.
Alice, oblivious to my existence, went home to take care of their pets by herself.
Jupiter told me that that he would tell Alice that he was either going up to the mountains or to San Diego. He instead, flew to see me in secret. 3000 miles further away than he said he was. As far as I'm aware, Jupiter chose to keep me secret from Alice for the entirety of 2022.
The woman recounts that Jupiter insisted she take birth control as he refused to wear a condom. The woman started to suffer from side effects of the pill, which Jupiter ignored and continued to have sex with her despite her discomfort.
Before Jupiter flew to Australia, he told me that I needed to get onto birth control. He wouldn't have sex with me with a condom and it was my responsibility. At this point in my life, I had never taken birth control and told him I had no interest in taking it because of potential health risks.
Jupiter made me feel like I couldn't say no, so I took the risk.
When Jupiter arrived at the airport in Australia, I was acting shy because he immediately started showing me physical affection like touching my thigh, and I was wanting to warm up to him slowly. I had just met this person. I had also experienced a side effect from the birth control that made me not feel comfortable with the idea of having sex until it was resolved. Prior to boarding his flight from LA to Australia, we had a phone conversation about it. I told him that I wanted to wait to have sex on the call and he had an outburst and declared that he would just spend his two week visit surfing instead of hanging out with me so the trip wasn't "a complete waste." Jupiter told me that I made that 13 hour flight miserable for him. The guilt I felt made me give into having sex with an infection from the birth control. We arrived at the AirBnB and shortly after, we had sex. I was uncomfortable and didn't enjoy it at all. I was holding myself afterwards, apologising and I couldn't look him in the eye. To that reaction he said, "Oh, you are shy!"
Jupiter procured a quantity of illicit substances upon arrival and insisted the woman take them, claiming they were never sober during the time they were together. Jupiter also snorted her Seroquel and mocked her for taking another medication that could cause the life threatening Steven-Johnson syndrome, calling it her "rash medication".
Immediately upon arrival. Jupiter bought Cocaine, MDMA, and Ketamine. Before meeting Jupiter, I had only tried illicit drugs a few times. I would only really smoke weed. I was also exploring sobriety from alcohol when we began our relationship, but during our two weeks in Australia together, we did many illicit drugs and consumed a lot of alcohol. We were never sober.
At that point in time, I had never done that many powdered substances, consecutively, in my life. It lead to me doing a lot of these substances the year after. I fell heavy into addiction like never before.
Jupiter put out a plate of Ketamine at 10am one morning and we began drinking early. I knocked out by noon. I woke up and knew we had sex whilst I was passed out. I couldn't consent. I am upset with myself for ever brushing this off.
I had only spent two weeks with Jupiter in person but there was still one occasion where he did lay hands on me. He had snorted my medication, an anti-psychotic that's not normally taken recreationally, and he pushed me very hard with both hands. It was aggressive. I was startled and it shook me a bit when it happened. I was confused. The morning after he had done that to me, he said that I was acting weird and asked me whether it was because he had pushed me. He said he was just out of it because of the Seroquel he had snorted. Well, he had recollection despite being so out of it. I will never forget the disgusted look on his face when we had this brief conversation.
He would often tell me to have another of my medication for some reason, despite knowing that the medication I was on could induce
"steven-johnson syndrome" a dangerous full body rash that could turn to sepsis and kill me if the dosage is increased too quickly. Jupiter knew this, he often called it my rash medication and it almost killed his friend so he knew this was no joke.
Jupiter would complain about Alice to the woman, stating that he felt he was getting no recognition for his work with Alice, that he "worked his ass off" trying to make it look like Alice did more work in Crystal Castles and that Alice couldn't sing.
Jupiter spoke about how he felt he wasn't getting the recognition he thought he deserved for producing Alice's solo music. He said that he worked his ass off to make it look like Alice did more than she actually did in Crystal Castles.
Jupiter said to me that Alice can't sing. Jupiter told me that Alice only sounded nice, sometimes, when she'd sing in the kitchen quietly. He humiliated her by offering to show me her original vocal stems and said it took him 9 hours at a time to edit her vocals. He went for a drive and called me after a studio session with Alice, she was crying, saying to him "I know you think I'm untalented."
He also went on to sexually degrade Alice to the woman and admitted that there was no real spark in their marriage at all.
Jupiter degraded her sexually telling me private things about Alice that he didn't like. For example, the reason he wouldn't go down on her.
He also said their "chemistry is very off. always has been" and "the chemistry is bad" which is an odd thing to say about someone who you've been married to for 10 years and make music with.
With this Jupiter revealed he writes all of Alice's interviews on his behalf and that he planned on negatively targeting Pitchfork for press.
Alice has likely been coached by Jupiter to say that she stayed off her socials due to Ethan. But I know why he really took her passwords away.
Jupiter said to me, "You know how it is, after a divorce... I didn't want her to write about me."
Jupiter said (and so has Alice) that he writes all of Alice's interviews on her behalf. He says she is incapable of doing it on her own. He needed to be in control. It's confusing because they have an article about how Alice is now completely in control of her own project.
He told me that they planned to instigate drama with Pitchfork, a music journalism website, where they would blindly accuse Pitchfork of having a bias towards Crystal Castles. I asked how long ago this had happened with Pitchfork. Jupiter told me it was 2016. I immediately said, "Oh, I guess with trauma it takes victims years to speak up about stuff." To that, he responded and said it would be good for "marketing" purposes. I didn't like that one bit. "If my pain is the main attraction." Exploiting trauma, intentionally for MARKETING. If it were for any other reason I would've been okay with it at the time but this unsettled me.
I persuaded Jupiter not to go forward with this marketing plan. I don't like the intent behind it.
And that he financially controlled Alice, and he lies to her about receiving Crystal Castles royalties.
When we were on the phone, Jupiter said that Alice was crying because she couldn't book a hotel when she needed one in an emergency, as her cards were blocked and they had to be unblocked by Jupiter.
The financial control is another thing in the statement against Ethan.
Jupiter admitted to me that he controlled all of their finances. He said to me that he had to tweak taxes when he was faced with the divorce to hide things from her, because of how he mismanaged her money. He had major losses, apparently. To my understanding, audits were done to "Crystal Castles" and all audits came back clean.
Alice still receives royalties from Crystal Castles and if she believes otherwise, or that she is being gutted, I speculate that it is due to Jupiter's deception and Jupiter's alone.
Lastly, a really funny detail in this is that the woman has a Grimes tattoo and because of Alice supposedly hating Grimes, he asked the woman if he could cum on it as a "power move".
He made me feel embarassed that I had ever supported other artists and asked me to hide that too. He said he hated my large Grimes tattoo and asked whether he could ejaculate on it as a power move.
Here are the screenshots since the woman's post has since been taken down. They explain in full detail more of the weird shit Jupiter did. HT to the other farms.
the lead singer of Liturgy comes to mind, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix. all that troon fuck does is go on schizo Christian rants on twitter instead of releasing new music.
the lead singer of Liturgy comes to mind, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix. all that troon fuck does is go on schizo Christian rants on twitter instead of releasing new music.
What are you talking about? A quick look at their discography shows albums released in: 2009, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2023, then there's EPs and a split with Oval (not counting singles).
I get it, troons bad or whatever, but they have a reasonable release output and tour a fair amount. The Christian spergouts are less cringe than your average trad orthodox cosplayer Roosh.
Lee Ryan from Blue. This was a big deal at the time in the UK press. I forgot all about this and was reminded by seeing his bandmate Duncan James mentioned in the Mermaids child trooning thread. Blue were a typical '90s-'00s boyband, inoffensive and bland and tween girls loved them. Basically like *NSYNC or Westlife.
Anyway, six weeks after 9/11, one of them said this:
Who gives a fuck about New York when elephants are being killed? They are ignoring animals that are more important. Animals need saving and that’s more important. This New York thing is being blown out of all proportion.
Last year he drank an entire bottle of port, got on a plane and sexually assaulted a black stewardess, saying "I want your chocolate children" before biting a police officer.
There was a black metal band out of Portland that did something similar. Metal scene was ridiculous, everyone spending loads of $$$ buying "cult" underground hard to find releases.
So they'd steal other peoples music, slap their name on it, etc. Or just make up releases and put them on Encyclopaedia Metallum prompting everyone to try and track them down.
You're talking about Velvet Cacoon. The guy was a cough syrup addict who would make up fake bands and release other underground artist's music as his own. Shit was hilarious.
the lead singer of Liturgy comes to mind, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix. all that troon fuck does is go on schizo Christian rants on twitter instead of releasing new music.
He's always been a pretentious fuck even before he trooned out. That's why nobody liked him and his shit band before commies and hipster losers reached a critical mass within the black metal scene. His family are a bunch of billionaires, including his uncle (IIRC) who started the NFL.
You're talking about Velvet Cacoon. The guy was a cough syrup addict who would make up fake bands and release other underground artist's music as his own. Shit was hilarious.
All time winner was GG Allin. Terrible artist using offensive actions and languages to draw a crowd, he would suicide bait like a 16 year old girl.
Billie Eilish is pretty fucking dumb and annoying, living in a mansion fortnress with 24/7 hired security encouraging people to riot over some bullshit 12 time felon who overdosed.
Paris Hilton as a DJ . I'm going to make a lot of people mad but rave scene died a long time ago and it never took much talent to do that shit ever.
Jerry Springer interviewed "Gwar" and said "hey guys so what's with the crazy outfits? and wild makeup?" and I forget who said it but the answer was "well we were good as musicians but not good enough so when wore crazy shit and that's how we got a record deal" I never hated Gwar or even listed to them but I had respect for what he said, the honesty was just refreshing.
