The only artist statements I've ever respected were clearly written by people who had guns pressed against their temples while they wrote them. Absolutely embarrassing shit to do; the highbrow version of explaining why a joke is funny, but worse

My soul would instantly ascend to Heaven if Ganon called Link a rude boy

Monk/Gallant Knight Ramza punching people for insane amounts of damage while my astrologically-fucked Time/White Mage crosses their fingers every time they cast a Raise spell on their equally astrologically-fucked teammates. Keeps things interesting

My squad's Zodiac compatibility is straight-up dogshit. Everybody is underdoing their own personal Mercury in retrograde. My three magic-users half the time are doing the equivalent of Joker shooting a BANG flag out of his gun while Ramza and Agrias kill everything in sight. It's bliss

JAMES CARVEL: ah say ah say it's the woke, you hear, the woke have, uh, they've ah-rootin-tootin ruined the Democratic Party, son
ANDERSON COOPER (watching Carvel melt under the unforgiving studio lights): has anybody ever put sprinkles on your head

THANK YOU. This is especially bad in TV, and I am saying that as someone who watched three seasons of The Bear waiting for this 'comedy' to make me laugh

The Elephant 6 people alone pretty much torpedo this argument, as do U2 and R.E.M.- both big Beatles Guys bands- being massive pop-cultural touchstones around this period