The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | Florence Welch Interviewed: Rage Against The Machine (via desnoise)

This interview/piece is really interesting because after the first few grafs, the writer takes the opportunity to slam the artist every time she can, turning it into a hit piece extrapolated from what was probably a short interview. While any good journalist/writer is able to pull insightful things from their observations, jumping to such conclusions like,”Her total lack of cultural awareness makes it seem all the more probable that she’s a spoilt posh girl with a host of “yes” men at her disposal who’s been allowed to put the metaphorical interest pony up for sale when she inevitably gets bored of it,” which is, um, jumping pretty far.

Does this kind of opinionated attack have its place in modern music journalism - do we need writers to stoke the fires of fan dissent and agreement, no matter how intellectually disingenuous the process might be? Also, does the writer have a responsibility to edit their transcripts and make the interviewee sound not so spacy? And what is the writer’s beef, anyways?