{"id":1597,"date":"2018-02-24T21:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T20:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2018-02-25T08:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T07:02:55","slug":"raphael-saadiq-i-dont-like-weird-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Raphael Saadiq: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like weird artists.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/film\/news\/raphael-saadiq-on-his-oscar-nominated-mudbound-song-working-with-mary-j-blige-and-declining-princes-record-deal-1202708352\/\">Raphael Saadiq on His Oscar-Nominated &#8216;Mudbound&#8217; Song, Working With Mary J. Blige and Declining Prince&#8217;s Record Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/raphaelsaadiq-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/raphaelsaadiq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/raphaelsaadiq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/raphaelsaadiq-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/raphaelsaadiq.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Are you shy, or you don\u2019t like the spotlight, or do you just not care about being a star?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I just don\u2019t care, man. I just like being around regular people \u2014 <em>I don\u2019t like weird artists and all that.<\/em> I don\u2019t get caught up in the hype \u2014\u00a0although I am excited about the Oscars! I never got excited about Grammys or other awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why not?<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>I mean, Britney Spears got a Grammy before Steely Dan \u2014 that\u2019s weird to me, I don\u2019t really know how to measure that<\/em>. I respect the Academy but I feel like sometimes it\u2019s not about music, it\u2019s about other things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raphael Saadiq on His Oscar-Nominated &#8216;Mudbound&#8217; Song, Working With Mary J. Blige and Declining Prince&#8217;s Record Deal Are you shy, or you don\u2019t like the spotlight, or do you just not care about being a star? I just don\u2019t care, man. I just like being around regular people \u2014 I don\u2019t like weird artists and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/?p=1597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raphael Saadiq: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like weird artists.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-got-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writingaffairs.com\/blog\/mizar6\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}