Agreed, to a point. The alternative to mentioning an underexposure to popular music might be to conceal it. What would be more honest? It makes good copy -- but that doesn't make it 1) untrue, nor 2) a crutch. Then again, there is someone here who truly knows EVERYTHING, and that person seems to believe that giving an artist in their first full year of public exposure the benefit of the doubt is just a little bit too much to ask. Ah, the wisdom at hand.

Popular music mythology is full of made-up stories, isn't it. What makes this artist so compelling is it isn't bs. One minute of conversation with Jules would tell you that.

"If our administration had any balls it would use our political influence to keep other friendly countries from sending goods to North Korea..." Dang - I wasn't aware we had any more political influence to spare after so many years of using our bottomless supply of intimidation, arrogance and profiteering military-industrial "projects" to get our way. Wouldn't it be faster just to, as you say, starve them out, and starve out all of our "friendly countries" who "aren't for us, so they're against us"?