Tossing Salt Presents:
Music Fact or Fiction
May 13, 2017

Up way too early and getting ready for a fun day, eleven hours of selling liquor to the masses and providing great customer service to all of the fine folks (and a few not so fine folks) of Scotland County. I just stepped out of the shower and while I’m waiting for my hair to dry and the dryer to stop turning, I think I’ll do a little Fact or Fiction, music style.

As per usual, the comments that I’m commenting from come from my fine friends over at 411mania.com. The opinions and views stated afterwards, that’s all me baby. Let’s do this…

You’re excited by the news of Haim’s second album.

FICTION: Who? All I know of Haim is that they’re friends of Taylor Swift’s and have toured with her. I did go to YouTube and listened to a couple of their songs and well, it’s ok, but it’s nothing really original or special in my opinion. I am excited by the recent release of Jessi Colter’s new album, “The Pslams”, which came out on March 24th. I’m also excited about the book Jessi has written called “An Outlaw and A Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home.” I’m hopefully going to be ordering both of those really soon. So Haim? Bleh! Jessi? Hell yes! ‘Nuff said!

There doesn’t appear to be any merit to the lawsuit against R. Kelly for breaking up a man’s marriage.

FICTION: Mississippi, where this lawsuit has been filed, does still have a few laws on the book where alienation of affection is grounds for divorce and by seeing a woman he knew was married, there is a degree of liability here for R. Kelly in helping to break up this guy’s marriage. So that means “Merit” in the technical sense of the word. But let’s be honest here. People screw around and cheat and if it wasn’t R. Kelly banging this guy’s wife, then it would have been someone else. If the marriage was strong and good, there wouldn’t have been any cheating or messing around. R. Kelly is being used as the scapegoat here and it’s only because of who he is that there is any kind of lawsuit at all. If it had been the stock-boy from Wal-Mart or the clerk from the local ABC Store (I hear they’re a bunch of horny dogs), there would just be a simple break-up and divorce and everyone moving on. R. Kelly is a name though and the man is seeing dollar signs. Whatever rocks his boat, I guess, but I think it’s a frivilous lawsuit at best and kind of a dumb-ass thing to do.

Ja Rule and Billy McFarland will eventually settle the lawsuit over the Fyre festival.

FACT: They had an event, over-sold the event, and it bombed out and people got shafted. It happens. Lawsuits over things like this never go to a conclusive ending and they’ll come to a settlement. Everyone will get paid and be happy. And then they’ll do another festival, people will get screwed again and rinse, wash, repeat. *sighs*

You have no interest in a sequel to Baby Boy.

FACT: I never saw the movie, but I’ve read reviews and it supposedly is very good. If that’s the case, leave it be since sequels rarely live up to the hype and generally tend to suck. This first movie was lightning in a bottle and great. Lightning can’t be caught twice and any new efforts will just end up hurting and cheapening everything that was good about the first one.

J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only HBO documentary was good.

FICTION: I can’t say because I didn’t see it. I’ve heard that it’s really, really good, but Cole is someone I’m only vaguely familiar with and have no real opinion on. What I do have an opinion on is that Alice Cooper has a new album, his 27th studio album, called “Paranormal” coming out on July 28th. More Alice is always good and is what we should care about and be focused on. Cole? I’ll watch that documentary some day when it’s on Netflix and give an opinion then. Alice. He’s a legend, an icon, a great entertainer and awesome. And that’s all I got to say about that.

Fall Out Boy’s new song “Young and Menace” was disappointing.

FICTION: It’s Fall Out Boy and they suck so how disappointing can it be? Actually, I went over to the YouTube and listened. And I actually like this one a little bit. Will I spend money on it or listen to it a hundred thousand times? Probably not. But it’s catchy and okay. They’re not Alice or Jessi by any means, but they did good with this one.

And there you go. I have to go scrounge up some breakfast now and finish getting ready for work. Thanks for reading. Thoughts and comments are welcome. And I’ll talk at you again really soon.

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