Kasabian

No Deep Tweets For Kasabian

Buoyed by success at the Brit Awards last week, where his band scooped the prize for Best British Band, Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has decided to share his opinion on the evaporating enigma of fame. The 29 year old invoked the grumpy-old-man-of-rock clause to expound that “It's not like what it used to be like in rock 'n' roll” and testily added, “I think -- especially in the last three or four years -- the internet's taken a stranglehold and killed off the myth of the rock star now… There are so many rock stars writing these self-pitying blogs and it's not in the spirit of rock 'n' roll, it's like 'Wow, what rubbish.'” Meighan’s words come during the very week that jailbird-in-waiting Lil Wayne decided to embrace the medium of Twitter and began to share profundities like “im super new to this twitter s*** but wudup tho !..........follow me biot¢h..........wudup mak......happy bday LO......8 days of freedom..ym.” And of course, there’s Courtney Love, whose random tweet-rants threaten to obfuscate any attempt she makes to resurrect her music career – or do they? On the basis that there’s no such thing as bad press, Kasabian may have missed the whole point of the internet, something which Courtney, Weezy and others like Lily Allen know all about.