Talk:Stephin Merritt

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If anyone has biographical data on Merritt it would be great if they'd add it. AW

There is a page at http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/stephinmerritt.html with a couple of interesting bits, but I'm a bit reluctant to write it up just now because for all I know it's completely made up (it's the only source I can find on the web). I think I've got a couple of articles about him in magazines somewhere, so I'll try to dig them out, and there's a couple of reference books I can check as well. Then my need to check facts should be fulfilled. Maybe I'm being too cautious - if so, feel free to add the stuff on that page here. --Camembert

What do other people think? --MrCheshire

I don't care one way or the other. Is this better? --AllanBz 03:45, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is it noteworthy to include the famous controversy of Stephin's comment about the song "Zip a Dee Doo Da," which had him labeled a racist by bloggers?

I kinda think the bloggers who labeled him "racist" have as much credibility as some clown on the street. Isn't it equally racist to require someone to like hip-hop - or to imagine that hip-hop is somehow the official music of black people?--72.131.42.216 04:14, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm noyt touching the issue of whether his comments were racist or not, but it was a pretty newsworthy thing about him that got a lot of buzz.Ohjeeztower 17:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

newsworthy to critics who relish seeing their own names in print. 'l'affaire merritt' was a farce; should you add anything about it, i will delete it as heresay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.29.77 (talk) 07:03, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] As interview subject

Merritt is a notoriously difficult interview subject, although he continues to grant interviews. I'm sure someone has said so in writing in a citable source. Does anyone have a suggestion where we could find someone writing about that? - Jmabel | Talk 16:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)