Rock stars without tattoos always make better music
Summary
A stranger without tattoos delivers a bold theory: rock stars who skip the ink make better music. He rattles off proof. Joy Division, no tattoos. Radiohead's Thom Yorke, clean skin. The rider's in a band himself, and they've considered matching tattoos on tour but decided against it because having tattoos in the brain is cooler than on your body. Kareem reveals he's actually getting laser removal, which only strengthens the case. Machine Gun Kelly comes up as exhibit A for why too many tattoos equals bad music. The conversation gets philosophical about norms and rebellion before Kareem notices something strange. Why are these guys sitting on each other's laps?
Full Transcript
So what's your take? Rock stars without tattoos always make better music? 100% agree. Thank you, man. Tattoos make you a worse musician. Yeah. Young, uh, Joy Division—no tattoo. No tattoo. Mne, no tattoo. Radio Head, Thom Yorke, never had a tattoo. Now in music, in fashion, having tattoo is being part of the norm. The norm. Sex, the norm.
So do you—I take you don't have any tattoos? No. We have—we are a rug band, so kids return has no tattoos. No, no tattoo. We will never have about matching tattoos. We thought about it like many time in tour, you know? But uh, I think it's more cool to like in the, in the brain, you know? What's a tattoo in the brain? Tattoos inside, like we have the same, you know, thought and you have the same thought. That's bra. Everybody has a tattoo. M, so having no tattoo is the new cool, you know?
I know I have tattoos. Oh wow! Guess what I'm doing? Getting laser removal. Yes, I'm cool. Why? And I make music on the same bo I started making music. I started removing tto. I'm serious.
You know who has tattoos? The guy from Mun 5? Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure, man. Is the music—to—no, no. Oh my God, no. Having a tattoo is more important for some people to having a guitar, you know? I want to make like rock music. I have a tattoo. But where is the guitar? Machine Gun Kelly? Yeah. Oh, so many tattoos. Yeah, too much, man. Yeah, that's why the music is bad. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, wow. I never really thought of this. Why are you guys sitting on each other's laps? What—