{"id":528554,"date":"2010-04-15T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=100730"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:03:11","slug":"russell-brand-prescribes-heroin-for-ailing-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528554","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand Prescribes Heroin For Ailing Music Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Brand suggests that the music industry expose teenyboppers like Justin Bieber and The Jonas Brothers to powerful controlled substances &#8212; like heroin, for instance &#8212; thereby weeding out the future rock stars who don&#8217;t have the moxie to deal with the perils of superstardom through &#8220;natural selection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/russell_brand_drop_dead_fred_remake-500x751.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"russell_brand_drop_dead_fred_remake\" width=\"230\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-53956\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_1179992-500x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Justin Bieber\" width=\"230\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-93902\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The top of the hit parade would look very different if teenyboppers were exposed to heroin,&#8221;<\/em> soon-to-be Mr. Katy Perry remarks in the new issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/russell-brand-prescribes-heroin-for-ailing-music-industry\/%3cbr%20\/%3e%20http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/the_heroin_cure_Gqb09JTfzgvuzNql4ZShSK#ixzz0lBGS2u1m\">Rolling Stone<\/a>. &#8220;It would weed a lot of them out. I don&#8217;t think Justin Bieber could handle [Pink Floyd member and heavy user] Syd Barrett&#8217;s habit . . . A lot of people in their journey to rehab overdose, and then, perhaps, we would be spared their awful music. It&#8217;s Darwinian. It&#8217;s the law of natural selection.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good to see Russell taking a break from wedding planning and getting back to what he does best: Offend people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Brand suggests that the music industry expose teenyboppers like Justin Bieber and The Jonas Brothers to powerful controlled substances &#8212; like heroin, for instance &#8212; thereby weeding out the future rock stars who don&#8217;t have the moxie to deal with the perils of superstardom through &#8220;natural selection.&#8221; &#8220;The top of the hit parade would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}