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This permanent A list singer from an initialed band that is also permanently A list is really sweating things out right now. My guess is that underage teen boy he kept sexually assaulting who starred in one of his videos is probably not the only underage teen he slept with.
Michael Stipe/REM
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DeleteOh noooooo
DeletePlease not Michael... although given the BI I don't think anyone else fits.
ReplyDeletefirst thought, michael stipe.
ReplyDeletevideo being "end of the world"
ReplyDeleteWere there rumors that this happened?! This is new to me.
ReplyDeleteYes... lots of them. Allegedly he likes his young boys to call him Grandpa.... he’s Uber creepy
DeleteI can't think of any other potential fits. U2 perhaps, but Bono ain't into that fruit, I don't think...
ReplyDeleteUgh, yikes. Thanks as always, @Tricia!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure and +1 yikes😲😲😲😲
DeleteGives a whole new meaning to the Hootie & The Blowfish line, "🎶Michael Stipe's not far behind🎶"
ReplyDeleteGross....what is wrong with people...I get that young looks pretty but underage is still underage...yuck!
ReplyDeleteI really don't want this to be Stipe. Well, I really don't want it to be anyone.
ReplyDeleteSide note, when I as 15 or 16, the lead singer of the Melvins tried to get me up to his hotel room. I declined. All of these recent accusations reminded me of that night I had completely forgotten about.
I was a major concert/show goer in my teens and lucky to say the few band guys who hit on me, found out my age and backed off....a few after they realized I had just turned 18. Still see some of those guys around. People aren't all bad.
Delete@Janet - My mind begs to differ. I don't see "young" that way.
ReplyDeleteI really don't want it to be Michael ether. Bad king Buzzo? Really? I knew he was an ass but....
ReplyDelete@Kahleesi ... don't know what you mean..you don't think young is pretty or you don't think underage is yuck? Sorry, just trying to understand.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I prefer adult men ... as in men 35+ ... not into baby faced boys .. shudder....
It's Michael Stipes.
ReplyDeleteOMG, are there ANY normal men?!?!
ReplyDelete@Janet - I don't see young as pretty.
ReplyDeleteIt’s the end of the world as he knows it
ReplyDeletelol @ ltttt - nice.
ReplyDeleteI'm 49, recently put out a singles ad. I couldn't believe how many 23 year old boys answered. I was like, "Sorry, no, my son is your age."
ReplyDeleteWhat will Jane Pratt say?
ReplyDeleteRight, @nutty? I still remember when Sassy published the lyrics to Losing My Religion and I sat and memorized them
ReplyDeleteI agree with Michael Stipes of REM. My first thought was AC/DC purely because it was the only initialled band I thought of.
ReplyDeleteRumours about him being into twinks for decades. didn't know about the more sordid stuff.
ReplyDeleteIt’s common knowledge he was Casey Spooner’s first when Spooner was 18 and he was 27. (Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner.)
ReplyDeleteNot illegal though. Spooner and he are still good friends.
DeleteGah. Oh, Michael. You wrote some of my favorite songs. As important as it is to out the bad guys, I'm so tired of being disillusioned.
ReplyDeleteI'm preparing myself for massive amounts of angst from my Gen X friends when this one goes public. This one hits harder than all the others.
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ReplyDeleteas someone who's been through sexual abuse/trauma it's starting to feel like a huge betrayal every time i hear a new story of this shit. i pray this isn't true but it probably is. i really like REM. i really loved spacey as an actor. (i know rumors went around about him for years, but people use perceived potential child abuse as an excuse for homophobia VERY often so i took them all with a grain of salt). of course i can separate the art from the artist and i'll still listen to them, but it's such a kick in the crotch to learn that a person you enjoyed for so long is a perpetrator of the same kind of abuse that fucked you up.
ReplyDeleteI must admit this one has me gutted, rem was a big part of my music I grew up with too!
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ReplyDeleteUh! Fuck I hope this ones not true. I know a lot of the stuff he supposedly got up to in Athens has been GREATLY exaggerated over the years. A friend of mine lived there in the 80s and said he wasn't as much of a slut as people thought he was. Also if it was anyone it wasn't Noa Ray from ITEOTWAWKI video. He had nice things to say about the band ( although he was bullied horribly at school after the vid became popular.)
ReplyDeleteIt may be worth noting that the underage teen who starred in a certain video was not (according to an article near the top of the google search results on the subject) just some random boy from that college town, but apparently an aspiring kid performer type. He'd been doing "skateboard videos" in a neighboring state when the director of said video "discovered" him.
ReplyDeleteGotta call bullshit on this one. Datalounge comments aren't exactly a reliable source. Most of the twats there still think Stipe has AIDS and is dating Michael Douglas.
ReplyDeleteI happened to spend some time with him in the 90s. He's a nice guy, a bit crazy but not in a pervy way. He did a lot of work behind the scenes with RAINN and was horrified by the notion of anyone being pressured into sex. He hated a certain elder gay entertainer because said person once had sex with a very drunk friend of his and he considered it rape. So I can't believe this one.
I'd actually believe Bono was fiddling that kid from their videos before this one.
Yeah, not buying this one either.
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