Well, I got 11 out of 18 with my Grammy Predictions, that’s not too bad, right? Predictions aside, the show was pretty much as expected, although I do have to say that Jack White has got to ditch Meg White and get a real band behind him. That medley he did was amazing. That new industry site, whatsthedownload.com, continues to show that the music industry still isn’t getting it regarding filesharing, nor do they seem to be doing themselves any favors.
Also, if the Grammys were running on a 5 minute delay, or whatever, why didn’t they just omit the Celine Dion gaffe entirely instead of having it run live, on-air?
I’m also bloody sick of Norah Jones’ newest release, which came out last Tuesday. I didn’t think she could top the mundane and meandering offering that was Come Away With Me but with a Dolly Parton guest appearance and more cooing than ever before Feels Like Home makes me want to stab my eardrums repeatedly with pencils. It’s not bad music per se, it’s just it’s so relaxing and so middle of the road, I can’t help wanting to go nuts while it’s playing. That, along with a tag team combo of Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble ensured I was bored out of my mind at work this week. I personally find the idea of mandatory playlists in a music store to be unholy to the Nth degree but enough about me, let’s get down to covering…
Da News
– Rapper Loon, aka Chauncey Hawkins, was charged with attempted murder early Friday morning after an altercation at a release party for Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz’s new DVD. Apparently some individuals were attempting to get into a night club and stabbed a security guard while trying to get in. The security guard, who is in hospital with non-life threatening injuries, identified Loon as one of the individuals, along with William Reyes & Teon Tanqueray. Early yesterday morning Loon was released on bail. I’ll go on record as saying I’ve never even HEARD of Loon before, but apparently he’s signed to Bad Boy Records, and recently did a song with Kelis, aka that Stupid Milkshake Song Girl.
– So MTV, hypocrites that they are, decided to shuffle their playlist around in light of the Breast Offense. Blink 182, Maroon 5, Britney Spears and Incubus all have had their videos taken from all day rotation to night rotation because MTV higher ups feel that the videos from these respective artists are too racy. Britney’s attempts at soft core porn aside, what’s the deal with any of these other videos? Blink 182’s video for Feeling This features models running around in skimpy underwear and the Incubus video is simply a contrived political statement, both of which have been featured on MTV ad nauseum before. Where was MTV when 50 Cent’s P.I.M.P video was airing? You know, the one with the girls on leashes?
– In an incident that’s not garnering anywhere NEAR the amount of attention that the Breast Offense was getting, CBS apologized on Friday for the Outkast Grammy performance of ‘Hey Ya!’, where Andre 3000 was dressed up in feathers, fringes and war paint, and came out of a large green teepee, which garnered criticism from the San Francisco based Native American Cultural Center. As well, CBS also apologized for trying to jump on the American Idol bandwagon with their rehashing of Star Search, but no plans have been made as of yet to scrap the show.- It would seem that a web-based entrepeneur is looking to set up a system that allows for web users to surf the Internet, and, more importantly, download material off of p2p programs anonymously. Anon X is a website that, for a small monthly fee of $5.95 a month, has Anon X serve as a proxy between a user’s personal computer and the rest of the big, bad Intra-web. This more or less strikes dead the RIAA’s strategy of suing people through their IPs, although critics aren’t entirely convinced that Anon X will deliver what it’s promising.
Now, I’m not a techie guy, so I’m not sure about the particulars regarding this, but I’m pretty sure that eventually someone is going to come up with software or hardware or whatever that’ll make it all but impossible for the RIAA to track people via IP address. Also, I’m not sure what will come of this Anon X stuff. If it’s able to deliver what it says it’s going to, it’s not clear if the RIAA will be able to knock this program down or not, as Anon X could use the same argument that Morpheus and Grokster are currently using in the courts which states that they aren’t responsible for what the user DOES with the service; they’re simply providing it to the users. This is just going to be one of many future security services, programs, devices, etc, that will start to crop up now because people, desperate to be able to download music for free or relatively for free, will continue to do everything they can to evade the RIAA’s wrath.
..RIAA’s wrath. Sheesh. You’d think I was talking about Kane or something there. Right, anyways, moving along…
– Meg White dressed up in a bunnysuit for Whirlwind’s Heat new single. No word if reports that Beck tried to convince Meg the Bunny to be given away as part of an online contest of his or not.
– NME lost their minds when they awarded Ozzy Osbourne with a Godlike Genius award at the 2004 NME Awards. Radiohead and the White Stripes also cleaned house at the awards ceremony.
– Those of you who want to see the Probot video and really, who doesn’t, you can check it out here. Dave Grohl, Lemmy and more fake lesbians than Madonna’s got wrinkles on her ass, what’s not to love about this video? I mentioned this video last week and now, here it is, in all it’s Suicide Girls Burlesque Troupe glory. Speaking of Probot, you need to go and pick up this record right away. Dave Grohl just continues to assert how much he kicks ass and this Probot offering is no different.
– The Canadian version of the Grammys, the Junos, announced their nominees earlier this week. For the whopping ZERO of you who care about this, an abbreviated list of the nominees can be found here:
Single Of The Year:
Billy Talent — “Try Honesty”
Nelly Furtado — “Powerless (Say What You Want)”
Nickelback — “Someday”
Our Lady Peace — “Innocent”
Shaye — “Happy Baby”
Album Of The Year:
Michael Buble — S/T
Celine Dion — One Heart
Nelly Furtado — Folklore
Sarah McLachlan — Afterglow
Sam Roberts — We Were Born In A Flame
Artist Of The Year:
Shawn Desman
Celine Dion
Nelly Furtado
Sarah McLachlan
Sam Roberts
Group Of The Year:
Barenaked Ladies
Finger Eleven
La Chicane
Nickelback
Our Lady Peace
New Artist Of The Year:
Barlow
Michael Buble
Kazzer
Danny Michel
Kinnie Starr
New Group Of The Year:
Billy Talent
The Dears
Lillix
Three Days Grace
The Trews
Songwriter Of The Year:
Kathleen Edwards
Nelly Furtado
Sarah McLachlan
Ron Sexsmith
Hawksley Workman
Rap Recording Of The Year:
BrassMunk — Dark Sunrise
Choclair — Flagrant
IRS — Welcome To Planet IRS
Mr. Roam — Tom Stokes Presents The ClasSix Plus Six
Sweatshop Union — Natural Progression
Pop Album Of The Year:
Barenaked Ladies — Everything To Everyone
Barlow — S/T
Nelly Furtado — Folklore
Lillix — Falling Uphill
Sarah McLachlan — Afterglow
Rock Album Of The Year:
Billy Talent — S/T
Danko Jones — We Sweat Blood
Nickelback — The Long Road
Sam Roberts — We Were Born In A Flame
Sum 41 — Does This Look Infected?
Alternative Album Of The Year:
Buck 65 — Talkin’ Honkey Blues
The Constantines — Shine A Light
Joel Plaskett — Thankfully, Thankfully
Stars — Heart
The Weakerthans — Reconstruction Site
Looking at this list of nominees, one would be led to believe that Canadian music, by and large, tends to suck ass. Sadly enough, that’s a pretty accurate assessment, as the music industry up here in Canada seems to only be interested in giving nods to those who are able to slide over to the other side of the border (USA) and achieve fame and success there. Hence the multiple Sarah McLachlan, Nickelback, Barenaked Ladies, etc, nominations. It’s also amusing how true songwriters, such as Kathleen Edwards, Ron Sexsmith and Hawksley Workman are nominated against the veritable armies of songwriters that Ms. McLachlan & Nelly Furtado have on payroll. Right, well, expect a whole smattering of artists to be featured in Sound Advice to showcase that Canadian music is far much more than shit like Lillix, Barlow and Our Lady Peace.
– Those of you who are fans of Evan’s Essence, you can check out a two part interview that former guitarist Ben Moody did with a Texas radio station regarding his departure from the group, as well as his thoughts regarding linking up with Avril Lavigne. I listened to part of it, and I didn’t hear any mention if he’s learned how to play more than one power chord per song yet, but since he’s working with Avril, who has shown she’s at least capable of stringing two completely different chords together, who knows what WILD AND CRAZY MUSICAL FUN will be conjured up with the Bitch Queen of MTV and a guy who looks like the long lost brother of Haystacks Calhoun. Could they form their ADD fueled musical prowess into an amazing THREE CHORD SONG? Find out about all this and more with Avril’s newest spin, coming out sometime in May. Oh, I just know you’re all as excited as I am to hear what it’ll sound like. Between WWE Originals, Courtney Love’s newest and Avril’s forthcoming CD, it’s shaping up to be a pretty brutal year in music thus far. Anyway, part one is here and here’s part two.
– Since we’re on the topic of the Bitch Queen of MTV, let’s talk about her upcoming album a little more. As mentioned, it’s set to drop in May, and will be featuring Ben Moody on it. Absent from the production team are ‘(s)hit makers’ the Matrix, who are supposedly busying themselves with the soundtrack to the movie adaptation of Sk8tu4r Bizyyo-0e, or however it’s spelt. Appearing instead are a whole plethora of producers, singers, songwriters and people generally far more talented than Avril herself. Raine Maida, lead singer of Our Lady Peace and his wife, Chantal Kreviazuk are helping with songwriting credits, Linkin Park and Pearl Jam producer Don Gilmore and Marvelous 3’s Butch Walker will be helping with production, her guitarist Evan Taubenfield is also getting in on the co-writing credits, co-penning the tune ‘Take Me Away’. So that’s at least 6 people, some of them borderline talented, who have helped with the creation of this monstrosity and yet Avril, bless her stupid plumber’s crack ass, still says that she has ‘more creative control now’ and that she’s writing the music she likes. Right-o there, kiddo. You and your crack team (pun unintended) of producers, writers, musicians and everything else will write YOUR music. Which begs the question, what will this new record sound like? What sort of crap will we be subjected to over the summer thanks to Napanee’s worst excuse for a celebrity? Shit like this:
“”Did you think that I was gonna give it up to you/Did you think that that was something I was gonna do?””
Profound.
– Pedro the Lion has a new album coming out May 25th and will be joining Death Cab For Cutie and Ben Kweller on their upcoming Mega Tour Extravaganza. You can check out a track from the new album, called Achilles Heel, on their website, as well. A free mp3! Go forth and get your filthy little mitts on them before the RIAA has Pedro the Lion rounded up and SHOT for providing art to the unwashed masses.
– Going along with free mp3s, Soulfly has a free mp3 up for grabs on their website as well. Go here to take a listen to ‘Prophecy’, the title track off of their forthcoming album. In related Soulfly news Max Cavalera is working on a DVD of Soulfly material, which probably won’t be released til sometime next year.
– One of my future ex-wives, Shakira, will be releasing a live DVD with companion CD. The fact that the DVD features tour footage of her praying with her family and spending time with her fiance does not deter me from the belief that I too, will have my shot at Colombia’s second best export to the world. The companion CD will feature her doing a cover of AC/DC’s ‘Back In Black’. Well, that’ll certainly be INTERESTING, if nothing else.
– P Diddy’s working on a new album. Unlike previous endeavors where he attaches his remmorah like face onto the ass of someone more talented than him, or uses his tick-like abilities to leech out the sounds of already existing good songs, he’s using established electronica DJs to help ‘collaborate’ on his new album. Felix Da Housecat, DJ Hell and Timo Maas are some of the luminaries that are set to be contributing tracks to Diddy’s newest offering. Apparently it will be a hybrid rap/dance album, although no word yet if it will suck like most other forms of ‘hybrid’ music (see also: rap, meet rock).
– Tower Records declared bankruptcy and in typical industry fashion, file sharing took the major fault for the reason why Tower went belly up. Nevermind the fact that Tower Records expanded at an exorbiant rate, had incredibly huge 4 story ‘megastores’, that stores like Best Buy, Circuit City or Wal Mart undercut Tower’s pricing and drew away customers, that they’ve had bad luck with online ordering (including one such embarassment when due to an error on their databases, customer ordering information was made available to anyone who wanted to look at it), the fact that the US economy is in a recession right now, or anything else, no, let’s blame the majority of Tower’s failings on file sharing. As said in my previous column, I work in a music store up here in Canada, and it’s really hard to believe the fact that the mainstream music retailers are suffering as much as they are due to file sharing. For the most part, the company I work for has more or less maintained a profit in the three years I’ve been employed. Hell, this past Christmas saw us exceeding a company record for sales during that time period. So I mean, if a Canadian retailer can do well and profit in this climate, I honestly don’t see why American retailers (excepting smaller, indie type stores, mind you) are having such a problem with business, given that stores on both sides of the border are experiencing the same problems.
– Lemmy’s autobiography, White Line Fever finally made it’s way stateside earlier this week. In other related Motorhead news, they’ll be contributing a cover of Metallica’s ‘Whiplash’ for a forthcoming tribute album and the Motorhead camp have a June release date tenatively set in for a new album.
– Matthew Good, another Canadian artist who has actually been featured here before, is close to releasing a new album sometime later this spring, as was announced on his newly launched website(s), matthewgood.net and matthewgood.org. Both sites lead to the same website, in case you were wondering. Matt Good’s been one of my top 10 favorites for quite some time now, so be looking for a write up of him and his upcoming album sometime soon.
– Dr. Dre will be getting the Executive Producer credit on Nate Dogg’s forthcoming record, according to Shade Sheist. Also, Dre’s co-producer Scott Storch told MTV that Dre’s LP, The Detox, will be the most advanced ever. Presumably, that’ll mean no inclusion of THE n-word, no f*cking skits, and absolutely no references to drinking, smoking pot (hey, it’s Dre) or guns. The Detox will also be able to cure most forms of STDs and find WMDs on command.
That’s it for the news!
Anti-Pop: I’ll Go Against The Grain Til The Day I Drop
This is part rant, part plugs to various writers around 411, so if I get long winded in here, that’s why.
– Yesterday, Mr. Jeff Fernandez got into an argument with a ‘Genius’ (no, not Ozzy) and had some problems with a Nugget (no, not Owen). Confused? Bewildered? Dazed? Paranoid? Constipated? Well, I can’t help you out with the last one there, but if you go and read Jeff’s column from yesterday, it might help to clear up the other problems you may be experiencing. As for The Minority Report? Count me in guys.
– So Mathan gave me one hell of a pimp earlier in the week in his column where he discusses the Breast Offense and raises some pretty good points regarding the whole situation involving Timberlake’s behavior and how things were handled. I think that Timberlake’s inclusion in the Grammys had more to do with the fact that he was set to win several awards and was performing, although that doesn’t excuse his behavior towards Janet and more or less turninghis back on her. Check out the column to see why Mathan is indeed the Music Zone’s lightning rod of controversy. Additionally, Chris Biscuiti chimes in with his opinions regarding the Breast Offense here.
– On a semi-related note, quite the buzz has been going on in the forums involving the supposed racism of one Mr. Slim Shady. You can see the trouble brewing here as well as another thread (started up by Mathan, seems controversy seems to follow that guy wherever he goes!). I picked up the February issue of the Source while on my break Friday and looked at the whole hubbub surrounding the supposed racist tape of his. Then I began to wonder what the hell the big deal was.
Did Eminem say ‘nigger’ on a tape 10+ years ago? Yes, yes he did. Is he sorry for what he did and own up to making a rather bone headed mistake? Why yes, yes I believe that is what happened. Honestly, Benzino, Kim Osario and the rest of the staff at the Source are attempting to make a mountain out of a mole hill and it’s just not going to work. The whole feature came across as being rather amateurish in the way it was handled and presented. For example, having Benzino do a 4 page interview talking about why he hates Eminem and why he thinks he’s a racist is unprofessional at best, considering the well publicized beefs that have gone on between Mr. Mathers and Mr. Scott. Ironic that he goes on to say that his giving his Made Men CD 4.5 Mics was also unprofessional, but I digress. Also, featuring industry people such as Suge Knight, who happens to HATE Dr Dre with the burning anger of a thousand suns, makes the Source look like the black equivalent of Fox News. It’s sad that the magazine, in their efforts to try and dredge up SOME sort of dirt on Eminem, have to go back to when he was 16 years old to get something on him. Anyways, with that said, I’ve got some questions of my own regarding this whole fiasco:
— Why is it okay for Benzino to say that ‘Hip-hop is cultural, so what can a white person bring to the table that black people haven’t done already?’ Is that not considered to be racist? To me, it seems that Benzino is saying, it’d be great to see white people doing hip hop, but they’re incapable of being good at it, because they’re white. To spin the question around, what can Latino and Asian people bring to the table that black people haven’t done already? Or is this a ‘white-only’ thing? Furthermore, why is it okay for the magazine that he co-owns to run articles like “The Unbearable Whiteness of Emceeing” (Mar ’03), which features quotes from people like Susan Sontag calling the white race the ‘cancer of history’. Is this the guy we’re supposed to be believing is taking an unbiased, rational and objective approach to race issues? Especially when you stop to consider that they tried to marry Eminem’s uttering of nigger to police brutality in a one page feature that was sandwiched between the Kim Osario feature and
Benzino’s interview. Sorry, but I’m not biting.
— Does no one else find it amusing that Benzino has absolutely no problems with having Eminem come and esthablish a dialogue in the pages of his magazine, even though he’s gone on record as saying that his beef with Eminem is part of a larger battle to keep hip-hop from going white. Is it okay to endorse racists so long as you’re making a profit over it? Or am I somehow misinterpreting Benzino’s morals?
— How exactly is Eminem ruining rap as a genre, culture, way of life, whatever? For every wigger, trend whore-hopper and white guy out there who likes Hey Ya!, there will still be the same people who will be ‘keeping it real’ or whatever. Just because there is an influx of A doesn’t necessarily mean that B will be destroyed. Besides which, Eminem’s success has done nothing but help fuel the sale of hip hop among white suburban kids who, and I might be reaching here, probably make up a good chunk of the Source’s readership.
— How does Benzino feel about the supposed racist accusations made against Andre 3000 with his Grammy performance? In the Osario feature they argue that no black rapper would’ve been able to get 100 clones of himself for an MTV Awards performance. Well, would a white rapper be able to dress up in Native regalia and whoop and holler around and come out of a teepee shaped rocketship? More importantly, how is this even a valid point of discussion in this whole stupid debate?
Agree? Disagree? Why not hop on over to the 411 Forums and join in the noise. Or e-mail me to tell me how much of an idiot I am.
– Aaron Cameron also gives me some props and, showing why he’s the Music Zone’s writer of the year, is able to fit a Punch Out reference into his column while telling us about the birth of his son. Why not head over there and see if you can catch the reference yourself, and send Aaron Cameron and Mrs. Bootleg a congratulatory e-mail and well wishes for Jalen Henderson Cameron. Also, the Terri Clark you found on the wu-wu-wu is the one and the same that got the Playboy offer, Aaron. Why the hell anyone would offer her a Playboy shot and not, say, Martina McBride or Shania Twain is beyond me. There was a big hubbub over the offer here in our dailies, as Terri Clark is from Alberta…annnnnd I’ll stop talking about an artist neither one of us cares all that much about. Finally, gotta give props to Aaron & Jeff Fernandez for making a Minority Report that doesn’t suck nor star Tom Cruise. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Go and read his column, then!
– Valentine’s Day was yesterday, and for those of you who didn’t have a date, why not go and check out Eric Katz? He’s got TONS of (tour) dates for ya, as well as some Sound Advice of his own as to who you should be spending your hard earned cash on. He’s also going to be taking a 2 week leave as he’s going to be in Italy, so party at Eric’s place!
– Evocator can’t spell, likes big sized words and gets my last name looking and sounding like a Serbian dictator’s last name, or a drug meant as treatment for heartburn, but I can’t help but look at his TITS.Mr. Manes gets down and dirty, discussing James Hetfield and Canadian rockers Three Inches of Blood, while witholding porn from us and calling out Chester from Linkin Park. Humanitarian, or misanthrope? I’m having a hard time deciding here. Also, why not follow my previous commands and check out the Forums so you can figure out what this ‘From The Forums’ thing is that’s in Evocator’s column.
– Melchor went and saw Dope last week and wrote about it in his column earlier in the week. He also ‘bows down’ to me, which is pretty cool considering that I’m only a week into my tenure here at 411. Being the utterly polite Canadian bastard that I am, though, I couldn’t let this act of kindness slip by unnoticed, so, since Melchor seems to like the heavy metal, I sacrificed a goat in his name early Wednesday. Also, I’ll let you know that Dope released their new album this past Tuesday, so if you liked what you heard go and check it out, dude.
– Ben Morse continues his Best of 2003 with a top ten look at the 10 best teams in comics with various other writers in the 411 Comics Zone. Keeping up with the Comics Zone, Daron…the Dark Overlord has got 144anima up and running.
– Not that he needs the promotion, but Ron Gamble shows us how he’s a walking wrestling almanac in his most recent column, while talking about the multicultural aspect of professional wrestling title holders. Good stuff from him, as usual.
– For those of you who are interested in seeing what the cover of the Danger Mouse CD looks like, y’know, the one that features the Remixing of Jay-Z’s Black Album and the Beatle’s White Album, then you can go here and see what the album cover looks like. The fact that there’s some mp3s available as well is irrelevent and in fact, I discourage anyone from even thinking about downloading them. Downloading is bad and you wouldn’t want Capitol Records serving you with a cease and desist order Also, I have no idea how long that site is going to be up for, so if it’s not working when you go and try it, so sorry. As a consolation prize, if you haven’t seen the Hey Ya/Charlie Brown, um, collaboration, take a sniff around for it on your p2p file sharing program of choice for some more random copyright infringing mayhem. The links that I had to it unfortunately lead to a cease and desist letter from United Media so I’m unable to provide it. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth checking out and if you’ve already seen it, well, nevermind then! And with that, I shall now dispense the…
Sound Advice
Okay, so last week I did a mini-feature and review of Hawksley Workman and his discography. For those of you who don’t know who I’m talking about, hop back to last week’s column and read up on him. For those of you returning, I figured I’d do a feature on another Canadian artist who certainly enjoyed a lot of success last year. A Montreal songwriter who once wanted to become a professional hockey player before a career-ending beating in Hawaii changed his mind, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Sam Roberts.
As mentioned above, Sam once had plans to become a professional hockey player, like every other Canadian lad, it seems. While doing some off-season training in Hawaii at the tender age of 14, he ended up getting his clock cleaned after wandering into a rough part of Hawaii. Hockey aspirations over, Mr. Roberts decided to turn to music and began writing songs. Twelve years later, we were given a taste of Sam Roberts through a hugely popular demo tape that made its way around Montreal and then, subsequently, the rest of Canada. The Inhuman Condition was a 6 track EP that resulted in massive airplay for Sam Roberts on Canadian airwaves. After a brief tour across Canada promoting the EP, Roberts went into the studio, polished up the tracks featured on The Inhuman Condition and wrote some more for his first full length spin, We Were Born In A Flame.
As of right now, the EP and LP are the only releases he has out right now and if you’re interested in checking him out, I’d suggest going straight to We Were Born In A Flame as all the songs from Inhuman Condition, and more, can be found on WWBIAF. AS for what he sounds like? Well, think of a healthy mix of the Beatles and the Who, with a Canadian spin put onto it. The CD itself is a combination of rockers and mellower tunes that blow crap like Nickelback and Three Doors Down out of the water. While yes, most of us up here in Canada are absolutely sick of this guy thanks to CANCON guidelines that made it so he was played once about every 5 minutes on radio/Muchmusic, his album is still a really good listen and is worth picking up. Live, he’s outstanding, as he picks things up a notch and is totally capable of completely and utterly rocking out. While I don’t think he’ll be touring outside of Canada anytime soon, if you’re here, it wouldn’t hurt to check him out.
A mini-playlist for those of you who might wanna try it before you buy it would be:
– Don’t Walk Away Eileen
– Brother Down
– Canadian Dream (A song that I’m sure our resident Right Winger, Seth
Monroe, would just LOVE)
– Dead End
– Higher Learning
You can check out Sam Roberts at www.samrobertsband.com, if you want more information, or to check out the videos for ‘Brother Down’ or ‘Don’t Walk Away Eileen’. You can also purchase his CD off of the merch section there, if you’re inclined to do so.
Other Artists Featured In Sound Advice: Hawksley Workman.
If you want to see a band or artist featured here (preferably Canadian) e-mail me at trevor411music@hotmail.com with your suggestions or catch me on AIM as flinch311. I also got my first suggestion from an ‘Ari’, so look for a write up on Sarah Slean in the next little while.
The End Is The Beginning Is The End
I think that about does it for me this week. I believe Melchor is doing Mondays now, so check that out here in 411 Music. Do me a favor and check out Grutman’s Black Cloud over in Black on Monday…feed him the hits! Avoid your record store this week, as there’s nothing there that’s coming out that’s worth your attention. If you must make a trip, taking a look at the new Damageplan or Probot CDs that came out last week wouldn’t hurt, I suppose.
I’m OUTTA here!
