Conor Oberst: Fucking Pussy?

GQ on Conor Oberst:

I always thought Oberst was a pussy, and I was joined in this belief by all my asshole friends. Oh, how we would sneer. "Ugh. What a pussy," one of the assholes would say. "He's so cute with his quavery little-boy voice." Another had practically framed his Oberst disdain into a statement of dogma: "The singer-songwriter is supposed to make the listener cry, not to cry himself!" Yeah! I'd chime in. I suppose you're right! I didn't realize it, but I'd been sucked into an anti-emo mob. And we were an angry mob, let me tell you. At the far end of this continuum of violence lies civil wars and pogroms. We, at the very least, were good for some pretty smug rejoinders. So you didn't want to mess with us.

I dig the new Bright Eyes album, The People's Key, and so should you. Wunderbar!