arma virumque deleo

*He put down IWTV's previous seasons whose writers he ghosted post-S2 btw.

My completely unserious conspiracy theory is that Rolin Jones has been in a 20-year psychological cage match with the concept of failure ever since he was a Pulitzer finalist and the Pulitzer committee said “actually nobody deserves this one.” Fast forward: he gets the opportunity to be a show runner after a couple more middling tv gigs and his team makes an incredible first season of Interview with the Vampire, the kind of work that could plausibly become the thing he is most remembered for, but he’s still bitter and mad that he had to do a second season that was hobbled in quality by multiple strikes instead of moving onto The Vampire Lestat like he wanted. So The Vampire Lestat is not about Lestat. It is about Rolin Jones working out his frustrations about failing as an artist and getting popular for things you don’t necessarily like and punishing people for liking the thing you made that you don’t personally like. It’s a show made by him about him for him with some book names and Daniel’s old Bowie stories loosely attached 

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’” Mitski says. “Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’”