Adam Ant is either saying this to get attention and press coverage, or he just so out of touch with reality and the marketplace. I sure hope he doesn’t have a manager who is advising him that this is the way to reach your fans and sell albums.
I love vinyl, I have 1000s of vinyl albums at home, but I would never encourage or expect that is the format for listening to music. Who under the age of say 25 has a turntable? And suppose you did listen to the new Adam Ant album on a turntable and loved it, how do you take it with you? Find a tape deck, connect to your turntable, find a blank cassette tape and record a copy. Then find a old Walkman and you are set. Of course the quality of that tape in a old Walkman is probably worse than your iPod or mobile phone.
I love this quote, “…encourages children to sit in a room, not move, look at a screen and get fat,…” does he realize that a iPod actually encourages you to get up and move while listening to music.
Adam you should join Prince, Stevie Nicks, Jon Bon Jovi and a few other out of touch musicians in forming your own private island that bans the internet and any technology.
British pop star Adam Ant is waging war on the digital age, insisting the Internet is turning the human race into computer-obsessed “geeks”.
The singer is planning to release his first album for 16 years in 2011 and he is determined not to make it available for downloading online.
Ant – real name Stuart Goddard – is also urging fans to shun iPods in favour of more “traditional” ways of listening to music, because he’s convinced the Internet isn’t cool.
He tells Music-News.com, “I am deliberately being provocative by saying I won’t do downloads. This record isn’t for earplugs and a mobile phone. I don’t care about that.
“If you haven’t got a stereo, I think if you have got kids you owe it to them to play them a vinyl disc in their lifetime because once they hear that and they get into it they will, I think, never get over that experience. It’s such a wonderful experience.
“The traditional is definitely coming back. And I don’t like the people that invented the Internet. I think if you look at them they are geeks and they love it. They want us all to be Trekkies (Star Trek fans), and I think the Trekkie mentality is just abhorrent and it encourages children to sit in a room, not move, look at a screen and get fat, and that’s exactly what’s happening and nobody cares. I do. I’ve got a daughter, so I don’t want that. I don’t want her to be looking at an iPad, I want her to go to the library, get a book, order it, take it home, read it, cherish it, take it back. And that’s tradition. (It’s the) same with music. I want real records, real people. Plug in and play it.”
What a tool!
Adam Ant, Jon Bon Jovi, Elton John, Prince. The list goes for all of the “old school” cats who don’t get it. Sigh.
Adam Ant has never been talented, I’m sorry… and now, he’s just batshit crazy and media-whoring himself into the British tabloids at any cost. He’s toast. A cabbage. He showed up at a pub in London dressed as a pirate or something and got so bent out of shape when the people there laughed at him that he ran out and came back with a gun, and then was chased down the street by patrons and was thrown into a loony bin, where he belongs. They should’ve thrown away the key, because there’s nothing worse than a washed-up has-been who’s not only no longer relevant or capable of functioning, but is an outrageous asshole as well. For reference, see Axl Rose and/or “Sunset Boulevard”.
‘Adam Ant has never been talented, I’m sorry’ by Jay Clayton on April 6th 2011, Well ‘Jay Clayton’ so you should be sorry mate, and so you should be… You see I love ‘Adam and the Ants’ & always will so why do you have to slag them/him off, whether we like ‘Adam and the Ants’, Pinky & Perky, Queen, The Bay City Rollers etc etc, there’s a reason that we like/love that artist, Its not for you or me to ridicule their taste’s. ‘He showed up at a pub in London dressed as a pirate or something and got so bent out of shape when the people there laughed at him that he ran out and came back with a gun’ you say, well yeah he did but he has the mental disorder ‘Bipolar’ which is a real serious condition, & washed up, well my freind Adam has just had his latest album go to no:17 in the UK chart & it is selling so very, very well in the USA. so you fu**ed up there!! Anyway ‘JAY flipping arse sha**ing CLAYTON’ get your facts in order else you are gonna look real pathetic & stupid, oops, too late, done that mate …. lol love 2ya Paul Jack Griffiths xx http://youtu.be/e0BxHKlnhqY
I reckon adams bob on here – i must admit i use an iphone and regularly use shuffle but….. im old enough to remember waiting for a release at a record store in the morning – and savouring the music as a piece of art – including the artwork etc.. Adam ant isnt any more crazy than the mindless followers of the ipod system. his point of view is cool. he is cool. ipods are cool. and thankfully we all have freewill to choose!! good luck to adam for his tour 🙂
He is right in a way, I have a turntable and load of vinyl records (most from the 80’s and ofcourse also Adam (and the) Ant (s)..unfortunately you cant get a lot of vinyl records anymore…and I do think the internet makes people more asocial, everyone has 800 friends on facebook but no one ever sees them in real life….doesn’t mean I don’t use the internet, I just agree that a lot of kids stay indoors too much and are only creative on the internet…Adam Ant is very intelligent, and a very talented artist
I see his point even if it is a bit extremist – don’t necessarily agree with it. Life is hard enough – I am only willing to work for the artists I really care about. Example – I adore U2 – I will do anything I have to do for them including standing in the general admission line for hours for a show to get into the inner circle and be right up front for the show – and do it multiple times in multiple cities. If I could only get their new music on physical media – I would do it. Someone I only kind of like – nope – not doing it. If I could download Adam Ant’s new stuff – I probably would. However, if he makes it hard for me it’s not going to happen. I don’t like his stuff enough to put the effort in. If he is ok with only reaching his die hard fans – it’s his decision to take that approach.