I’d been pronouncing it as “Mackle-more” but then I watched Todd In The Shadows’ new video about him, and I swear he pronounced it “Mack-le-more” for half the video, and now I don’t know which one is the real pronounciation and which one is the joke. I have no strong feelings about him as an artist one way or another but I’d feel like a dick if I’d been inadvertently clowning on him for over a decade.
Maybe it’s 99% upbeat and stupid by airtime, but certainly not by content of the catalogue unless you’re saying upbeat or stupid. It’s the Lady Gaga move. Get the popular demand through the catchy, shallow/humorous stuff, use that to fund the deeper artistic endeavors.
I like the music but it’s not in my rotation, so I hear nothing about his principles. What’d he stand by?
I don’t have the full picture on his recent output, but he has been refreshingly, unapologetically direct about his support for Palestine.