Worst Gym Class Heroes Interview Ever Posted Today
In recent douchebag journalism news, a brand new interview with Travis was posted earlier today on the Phoenix New Times web site. As the journalist proceeded to ask Travis boring, uninformed questions that had nothing to do with him or Gym Class Heroes, he then accused Travis of being “on some sort of medication” and having a “penchant for short, muttered answers”.
If this so-called journalist knew anything about Travis, he would know his answers are often long and elaborate when he is asked good questions. For some reason interviewer Cole Haddon thought it would be cool to ask him a bunch of hero-related questions because of the band’s name, which is just a stupid idea to begin with.
I am a journalism graduate and have actually interviewed Travis in the past. He was very kind and took my questions seriously because I took the time to research and come up with interesting topics of conversation. Any moron can look at the band’s name and ask questions like “So where did you get your name from?”
Then, on top of it all, this moron journalist disses Travis in his article for not giving longer answers to his retarded hero-based questions. That is completely unprofessional, and in my opinion, he is just trying to cover his own ass for a crappy interview. A good interviewer should be able to get his subject talking, no matter what it’s about. I have interviewed literally hundreds of musicians and sometimes I will come up with questions I think are good, but for some reason, that person just isn’t talking. At that point I may scratch all my questions and just begin having a normal conversation with the person to get him to loosen up, talk a bit more. Not just stick to my original questions and then diss the guy in my article because he didn’t answer them the way I was hoping. I’m not saying I’m a regular Barbara Walters, but any journalism student could tell you this.
Anyway, enough ranting. Just check out the bad, bad interview here.
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