More Live Malcom Mask McLaren

I AM ALL OUT OF CLEVER ALLITERATION THIS MORNING! So let’s just enjoy Malcolm Mask McLaren, still and forever performing with their faces visible to the world, in this live video for “myself” which is a pretty nice song but was already the subject of their first real MV so:

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Masks Off! Malcom Mask McLaren Makes Me Malliterative Mometimes

What a terrible title, but I couldn’t help myself.

Anyway! I was flipping through the ol’ Twitter last night and remembered a disconcerting-looking tweet from MMM’s Mone several days ago, and thought I’d check in:

To newer people: When an idol tweets out images of written text, it is almost always a bad thing.

In addition to their second one-man held roughly 30 hours ago to celebrate their anniversary, they were holding a follow-up show “tonight” (now like four hours ago) to celebrate Nao’s birthday. How nice! Except that Nao’s tweets, when run through Twitter’s Bing translator that is mostly garbage, kept saying “thank you” (of course) and “departure” (NOOO!). Continue reading

Malcolm Mask McLaren’s ‘myself’ MV Moves Me

The world sucks right now. I mean, it sucks most of the time, but things are rather magnified. So thanks, MMM, for giving us a song that sounds a little like how a lot of people feel, but has just enough bounce in it to remind you, hey, it’s Friday, and there are idols who wear surgical masks and are named after the Sex Pistols’ manager and it’s amazing how far drones can extend your filming budget:


Somebody needs to remind Nao that “always on” means you have to at least pretend for the camera

I’ll always appreciate MMM’s commitment to their “melodic hardcore” thing by putting an actual bottom on what could be reductive pop punk pablum.

If there’s any truth to this allegation that the masks may come off, I’m going to be very upset.