Rec | DAVID BYRNE

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i’ve been waiting very patiently to trash talk david byrne on here……..i used to love him until i read chris frantz’s memoir. in the book frantz claims that byrne was essentially a tyrant who refused to give credit to anyone in the band besides himself. sure, david byrne was the face of the talking heads but the backbone was absolutely chris frantz and tina weymouth and so he would be NOTHING without them

@_____sydney___

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@dracula

literally do not believe anything chris frantz or tina weymouth say about david byrne, they are insane and have been obsessed with shit talking david byrne since talking heads disbanded. literally so obsessed with him that hardly a day goes by without them saying some shit about him, meanwhile he's living his life. i read remain in light and was so shocked by how biased and embarrassing it was-- chris frantz was so focused on all the tiny ways david had slighted him in his life instead of like, literally anything important. as an autistic person, 90% of the shit they say about david comes off as WILDLY ableist too. and let's not forget tina weymouth still insists to this day that david byrne killed a child with voodoo. clearly these are people who are mentally balanced and who we should listen to.

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