Because, really: how many people are actually offended by Kings of Leon? Now, comparing modern arena-rock moguls Kings of Leon (or just about any modern band, for that matter) to the Beatles is risky business, but the same sort of mentality seems to be dictating the haters’ decisions to, well, hate. It suggests boldness, passion, and critical thinking on your part, you know?”.
The introduction to the piece, however, contains an extremely penetrating, if brief, observation on the nature of “hate” and the often contrarian thought processes that lead to it, with Abebe commenting, “if you happen to be, like most people, more or less indifferent to them, I can understand the temptation to develop an active hatred, just because it's a lot more interesting than not caring either way. The bulk of the article is, though often insightful and funny, a pretty frivolous list with steps like “Pick the right Beatles song to begrudgingly enjoy” and “Don’t know too much about the Beatles”.
In the midst of the sort of silly Beatles-on-iTunes blogosphere backlash (the essence of which was a whole bunch of jokes about how the bloggerati “didn’t know where to get the Beatles’s music until now! Thanks, Apple!”), Nitsuh Abebe, for New York Magazine’s “Vulture” segment (essentially a catch-all for musings on modern pop culture), wrote an interesting piece called “How to Hate the Beatles”.
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