People asked Andrew WK questions @ Santos (video)

what does Andrew WK actually do ?

your mom.

staged staged staged
can't believe i just sat through that

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Agreed - the acting was so terrible. Also now convinced that there are two of them. The other guy sounds smarter.

yeah, it's obviously staged. it's just sad it wasn't even entertaining. i expected more out of such performance art.

this dude is straight up lame.

lame as fuck

who cares?

he's acting like he has some mild form of autism.

seriously.

i thought the point of this was to answer questions about the whole steev mike thing. so dumb. come clean already and stop avoiding the question.

i have no idea how or why he is well known.

songs like party hard are written to make people groan from how bad it is

so like there is this guy named Steev Mike who wrote all his songs...

songs like party hard are written to make people groan from how bad it is

I miss Andy Kaufman

Wasn't staged, and there's really no need for it to be.

I saw Andrew WK lecture at NYU a few years ago and I actually thought he was awesome and really entertaining. Also saw him play Irving Plaza way back in the I Get Wet days. Way awesome live and so friendly, stayed after the show to talk to fans sign shit etc.

On a side note I think it is really funny that when "I Get Wet" came out Pitchfork gave it a 0.6 and the reviewer was Ryan Schreiber, then the album ended up in the top 150 albums of the decade.

all of this "not the real andrew wk" stuff has been straight fake. he's just playing out some act to hype shit.

...not to say it won't be entertaining to see where he goes with it though.

Agreed on the fakeness.

This is why he doesn't act on his TV show.

I'm a little unclear on how this was "sad" or "lame". Personally I felt it was powerful and very brave of Andrew to get up there and at least attempt to set the record straight. I feel for the guy. He's obviously under a lot of pressure.

"It's as streamlined as anything Kraftwerk ever put to tape, and yet sounds like it's about to come unhinged at any moment. It's metal if the fans traded their pentagrams for smiley faces. It's glam for guys who wear off-the-rack Wranglers from Wal-Mart. It's a joke where the tongue isn't so much in cheek as goofily dangling like Gene Simmons' infamous lingua maxima. It's a Pied Piper in a stained white T, leading an irony-enfeebled generation to a candy colored land of unfettered joy. It's a pit full of sweaty bodies so overloaded with good vibes that their smell has gone from sour to sweet. It's a poet who knows shouting "SHE IS BEAUTIFUL" is more effective than, you know, poetry. It's hard rock in the form of a bear hug rather than a fist to the face or a grind of the hips."

"And yet, some of these 'punk' and 'indie' kids are still willing to back WK up with a number of ridiculous excuses that they deep-down know are inherently flawed. "It's catchy" is no kind of argument. Every pop song you've ever truly hated is catchy. "It's ironic" is wack, too, since there's exactly zero irony to be had on any of I Get Wet or in WK's motivational interviews. "It's fun" is about the only legitimate excuse a guy could come up with-- and that's the one thing I'll give it to warrant the .6 in the rating-- but this world of music which history has graced us with is loaded with fun music. Even fun music with substance, fun music that doesn't talk to you like you're some kinda total dipshit that wouldn't know Boredoms from buzzworthy. And you don't even have to look that hard! So then, what is the excuse for a typically elitist music nerd to bow to Andrew WK's blistering tard-rock? That's right, folks: there isn't one."

I told myself I wasn't going to watch the Q&A, but I just did. Sadly, I just wasted an hour of my life. That was a complete and total embarrassment...that is an understatement! I agree that some of the questions were ridiculous and were not worthy of a valid answer....BUT, what the hell is the point of having a Q&A session without the A's?. That to me is a legitimate scam...not over exaggerating, seriously a scam! He knew damn fucking well before the event even started he wasn't going to say shit, and he led people on. He has been leading people on since day 1. And he keeps getting away with it because he can, because he knows his music will always back him up. Think about his past, he was a scam artist, now he's just doing it legally. When his music runs out, so does his career. It's sad, but he's the one that has to live with it. I can proudly say I haven't donated a dime to anything BUT his music, and never will. All he did that night at the Q&A was rake in the cash and give a big fuck you to every single one of his fans. But the fans will always stay because of the music. And as far as any more Q&A sessions in the future, he's lost his mind completely if he thinks he can get away with it again.

I agree 100% because if Andrew had any real talent he would make this into something, instead of it just destroying his career and fan base. I wasn't expecting some big revelation from the night, but what seems weirdest now is that maybe the whole thing is actually genuine to a degree. Or at least more than I had thought. I think he really was scared. He said so on his Twitter yesterday. But I think the way he handled his fear was really bad and just made everything worse.

What I mean is, I think Andrew was trying to make people think he's messing around and pretending to be nervous so that people won't take him or the attacks against him too seriously. Maybe it's sort of like reverse-psychology. Plus, the audience was really nervous. They were laughing from the very beginning. Andrew came out and said, "Good evening" and immediately people started to laugh. I think Andrew was relieved by this and used it as a way to not have to answer any real questions or reveal anything too harmful.

Either way, I don't think anything was accomplished by the Q&A except it pissed a bunch of people off and lost Andrew tons and tons of fans. And if that's his personal goal, I don't want to support him anymore. I got into this whole thing because it caught my attention, not because I want to be ripped off. I'm taking it personally now.

Whoever is behind Andrew WK, at this point I don't care. The whole thing is still very interesting to me, I'm just very dissapointed in Andrew as a person for handling this all so badly. He's either not very smart, not very skilled, or just doesn't care about anything.

I found the goofball nervous script entertaining. What can I say... I am a sucker for that kind of forced awkward public speaking. The rest seemed like he kinda dropped the ball with the purpose of the talk. Or what was generally assumed to be the whole purpose of the talk since he has been f55ding the whole not-real/real /multiples/metaphysical/person/persona stuff lining up with the release of CCWBW. I find that CCWBW talks about all this in detail and is a really great album because it.

It also seemed (from viewing on a shitty cracked computer screen) that he was ready to go to these hard to explain places and then people kept not wanting to ask for it and just kept feeding the surface level parts of the AWK persona. Which after a bit, he was more than too happy to feed, Andrew tried to explain some things metaphorically in his responses to these old hat questions, but it just got swallowed back up by the energy of a bunch of Young Hip NYC'rs in a room---surface level hypnotized vanilla mindsets thinking the bullshit they spew is the smartest in the world and that is the center of the world. It was actually very depressing to watch this struggle and see that side win in the end. No illumination was created. No disillumination was created, either.

So it was apparent that he was not gonna answer anything, which I am totally fine with. But nothing changed except everything became more dull. Andrew, YOU could of very simply put some very tired story lines to rest and MOVED ANY OTHER PART OF FORWARD and created that feeling of excitement in people. Now most people appear to be pretty sick of this. I find that people have low tolerance for this kinda psychotic solipsistic schtick, you cant string everyone along for ever. Only the sick will remain pulling you down with them.

I DO KNOW that calling upon the powers of SM55 are not a joke. SM is an agent of change capable of destroying anything in its path. If not dealt with properly and willingly for the creation of ultimate reality on earth. SM will come and forcefully remove the parts of your life that do not line up. My prayers are that you immediately figure out how to repair this before any more damage comes. I would suggest TELLING THE TRUTH the best way you can. Remember, The Truth will set everyone free.

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I remember seeing Andrew in like 2002 at a metalcore fest. Nobody knew why he was there. He wasn’t as big as when Party Hard came out, but he was still pretty mainstream popular, and he sure didn’t play metalcore or go on about animal rights. Lots of skinny dudes with ear plugs were planning a revolt or protest or something.

By the middle of his set, he was crowdsurfing with a kid riding on his shoulders, screaming I LOVE YOU ALL into the mic in his left hand while holding the other one down for the crowd to sing into. Never seen anybody own a crowd like that. And THEN he played Party Hard…

Nice entry; I think I missed it the first time around. Glad to see that Andrew W.K. made the top 100.

Andrew, I know you already know about this, but for anyone else’s benefit, I talked to Andrew W.K. on the phone once. He was a fairly nice guy, and I’ll never forget his life advice: “stay in school, don’t party too hard, and never bend anything metal, because you’ll never be able to bend it back to the way it was.” It’s the advice that got me where I am today.