?uestlove regrets playing “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” for Bachmann’s walk-on music
?uestlove, the drummer for the great rap band The Roots which is the studio band for Jimmy Fallon, spoke to Pitchfork about the firestorm that followed after The Roots played “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” for Michele Bachmann when she appeared on Jimmy Fallon.
He said he was “deeply sorry” that people were offended and said that the song was supposed to be about Bachmann’s “revisionist history,” and that he forgot the song had “bitch” in the title.
Here’s an excerpt from the rest of ?uestlove’s Pitchfork interview:
Pitchfork: What kind of reactions have you received since?
?: I’ve seen some really colorful epithets in the past four days, but “nigger fuckhead ghetto stick” is probably the one that takes the cake. I’m still trying to get my head around that one. Blocking 3,500 tea party extremists [on Twitter] in a three day period is no fun, especially when you’re a drummer dangerously close to carpal tunnel. In the end, was it worth it? Absolutely not.
Pitchfork: Was there a moment when you were scared that you might get fired?
?: Yeah, last Wednesday, the day before [Thanksgiving]. We were seeing where she was going to go with it because, if you call the right channels, next thing you know advertisers are in the NBC building asking for proper action to be done. So we were definitely waiting with bated breath. And then her camp was like, “Look, it’s Thanksgiving. Let’s just put all this behind us and call it a day.”
He has kept his job and the minor media firestorm has pretty much blown over. But now Republicans have another reference point when they blame the “liberal media.”
