Scene and Heard
Beyoncé caught us all on the hop last week with the surprise release of her album, but such has been the subsequent hype it has broken all sorts of iTunes records and became the fastest-selling album on the service. About 830,000 copies were downloaded globally in three days, with 617,000 of those being sold in the US. Oscar Wilde was probably talking about the Pixies when he famously said, “To lose one Kim may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two Kims looks like carelessness.” However, lead singer Black Francis has described the departure from the group of Kim Deal and her replacement Kim Shattuck as showing how band dynamics are not like a marriage. In an interview with Yahoo, Francis also refused to get into the reasons for either departure. “Frankly, you don’t want to explain it to anybody — a lot of it’s personal, private shit,” he said. Hopefully, the fact that the new bassist is not named Kim will mean he lasts until the band’s two Irish gigs in June. Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was hit with the inevitable accusations of anti-semitism earlier this week when he compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians with that of the Jews by the Nazis. Several Jewish leaders described Waters’ words as an anti-semitic diatribe.
