Beastie Boys' Meaningless-But-Effective Interview in Metro NY

The Beastie Boys can be really funny sometimes when they do interviews with the press, especially, as in most instances, when they don't take the questions seriously and just turn every response into an opportunity to make a joke, riff on a gag or dispense patent fictions. This works best in on-camera interviews. While it can make for funny reading too, sometimes the humor, sarcasm and attitude get lost in the printed word, making what might be an otherwise interesting and informative interview almost completely devoid of meaning beyond the most basic facts -- i.e., that the hip-hop trio's innovative new concert film, "Awesome! I Fuckin' Shot That!" has just been theatrically released; that the film was shot from many different angles by 50 audiences members and edited together like a video mash-up. This briefest of interviews with the Beasties Mike D, MCA and King Adrock that appeared in last Friday's Metro New York is a case in point of the meaningless-but-effective Q and A.

Posted by Thurston Ali at April 4, 2006 12:29 AM