Ariel Pink

At 45 years old, Ariel Pink has this physical status:

Ariel Marcus Rosenberg (AR-eel), also known as Ariel Pink, is an American multi-instrumentalist, guitarist, and songwriter whose career dates back to the 1970s-1980s pop radio.

His lo-fi style and home-recorded albums have made a name for themselves among indie musicians beginning in the late 2000s.

Rosenberg, a Los Angeles native, started recording songs on an eight-track Portastudio as a teenager and is often referred to as the "godfather" of the hypnagogic pop and chillwave movements.

Michael Jackson, the Cure, and R. Stevie Moore were among his early influences.

He first appeared on Animal Collective's Paw Tracks in 2004 with a number of albums he had never released, beginning with The Doldrums (2000).

The reissues sparked a renewed critical analysis of hauntological phenomena.

Pink's fame and success have increased after the success of his 2010 album Before Today, his first recording in a professional studio.

The bulk of Pink's recorded output came from a prolific eight-year project (1996–2003), in which he accumulated over 200 cassette tapes of material before 2014.

His albums of the period were reissued and extended editions from 2019 to 2020.

Since being a child of the United States, he has released three more albums: Mature Themes (2012), Pom Pom (2014), and Dedicated to Bobby Jameson (2017).

He has also performed with a variety of other artists.

1996–2003: Early recordings

Rosenberg began playing with songwriting and composing avant-garde works while at university using a portable cassette recorder in his father's garage. His tools were limited to one bass guitar, an amp, and kitchen utensils. In 1996, he began what he later described as an eight-year "recording session" in which he "was completely single-minded." I had tunnel visions. Like if my life depended on it, I was just completely [recording music] like if my life depended on it. He "was really into" krautrock by then, and he attempted to mask his image in his songs by using photographs that bore no resemblance to him as album covers. He attributed his tapes to a number of names (logos), including "Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti" and "Ariel Rosenberg's Thrash and Burn." He did not intend to play any of this music.

Rosenberg studied fine art at the California Institute of the Arts in 1997. He was dissatisfied that the school concentrated on "the art market" rather than "color theory or something like that." He met John Maus at CalArts, and the two became his best friends and roommates. Rosenberg created a three-foot tall illustration of the school's faculty, workers, and students participating in an academy. The work was allowed to be on display, but an administrative member unsuccessfully sued the university for sexual assault.

During his last semester at the university, his album The Doldrums (2000) was released. He was then "in the throes of a heroin binge," according to LA Weekly. He later wrote, "I'm positive those were my words." "I don't know." It was fine. I had a typical art school experience, I suppose, after being inebriated at openings, partying with your 'teachers,' and dismissing scholastic duties as often as possible as part of college life. He characterized the album as "the saddest record I could [have made]; it was not only physically but also emotionally. Only three strings were used on the guitar. He presented a kiosk where he sold CDs of The Doldrums as a protest against the school's marketing-oriented curriculum for final examinations.

After listening to the compilation Everything and then starting to collaborate with him, Rosenberg became a devoted fan of the lo-fi musician R. Stevie Moore. In early 1999, Moore first called Moore and sent him a Doldrums CD. "I often heard taper nerd demos," Moore said, but the Haunteds were from a bizarre plane. Ariel began giving me so much information that it became a blur; I couldn't even wrap my head around his dozens of masterpieces." "Signing on and discovering that my first email was from him was the most exciting thing to have happened in my life up to this point."

Rosenberg, who dropped out of CalArts, lived in Crenshaw, Los Angeles, where he "brought so much cocaine, blasted music, lived in filth, brought all these fucking weirdos in, played and recorded music all night, and never had a problem with those people." He attended a music academy and worked as a clerk at a record store. He appeared on Scared Famous (2001), Fast Forward (2001), House Arrest (2002), Lover Boy (2002), and Worn Copy (2003). Before the Strokes came out and all the sudden guitars came back [on the charts], he envisioned working at a record store "for the remainder of my life." The White Stripes came out, and I was like, 'Oh, shit.' I wasn't into any of that stuff, but I was like, "This is happening...like in this lifetime."

Rosenberg had accumulated between 200 and 300 cassette tapes of information by the mid-2000s. Elana, his 16-year-old half-sister, sustained permanent brain damage and lost the use of her motor skills as a result of car accident injuries in February 2004. "I have a difficult time making music anymore," the actor said in a 2012 interview. [...] I listen to what I made ten years ago, and it's like hearing a new person. I have no access to those urges anymore. For the next few years, he has been writing and recording music.

Personal life

Many of Pink's comments in interviews have sparked controversy, particularly among left-leaning indie music groups. Some of his musings included "It's not illegal to be racist," "This gay pisses me off," and his expressed "love" for necrophiliacs, pedophils, and the Westboro Baptist Church. Pom Pom Pom Pom's negative press hit a peak around his launch of Pom Pom Pom Pom Pom, when protesters characterized him as a "troll," a "beta male," and a "misogynist." He is simply a glib speaker, according to supporters.

Pink revealed in October 2014 that Interscope Records had contacted him about working with Madonna, according to online journal Faster Louder. They needed "something edgy," the author said. [...] She can't have her Avicii, her designers, or whatever else - it's so difficult to pretend she's 20 years old that she can't just have her Avicii, her coder, or some other such thing. The book brought him into a minor controversy, with musician Grimes calling his remarks "delusional misogyny." He denied that he was a misogynist and said that he had only repeated what he was told by an Interscope agent. In a lengthy reflection published on Twitter, John Maus discussed Pink's remarks. Pink isn't a misogynist, a teenage girl, a dog, and others, according to him.

Pink admitted that one of his interview methods is to talk so much that no one has the opportunity to ask a question. He resents interviews and fame, saying, "I'd like to get by without making a fool of myself." He's been running my mouth all the time. It's not helping me." He also claims that certain publications have quoted him out of context for clickbait, and that "the media lies to us all the time." In a 2012 interview, Pink said, "I tried to intervene very early on and my moderator [sic] said, 'I think you should check your sources." You're correct. Who knows more about Ariel Pink than you do? You're absolutely correct,'" says the author.

Rosenberg married Alisa in his early 20s. About 2004, the couple divorced. He was in a relationship with artist Geneva Jacuzzi from 2006 to 2012. He accepted blame for the relationship's disintegration, and, according to an interviewer, he delivered "a tirade against gender politics and how everyone under the age of 27 feels themselves bi- or transsexual." In a 2010 interview, he said he debated gender identity "on a daily basis" and described as neither male nor female. Pink also participated in a friendship with singer-songwriter Soko, who said in a 2015 interview, "We dated a few years ago, but I think we're better off now as collaborators." He's a genius, and working with him is awesome."

Mario Rosenberg, his father, was a multi-millionaire in 2012, a fortune that Ariel could not inherit. Mario was one of 19 people convicted of $154 million insurance scam in 2014, according to authorities as "the first medical-fraud trial" in the United States. He denied the charge and pleaded no contest. According to his counsel, the plea was made due to his inability to continue battling the case.

During a San Francisco performance in October 2017, Pink's on-stage physicality with then-bandmate and girlfriend Charlotte Ercoli Coe offended attendees. The resulting controversies were dismissed as "the oppressive olympics" on the next day, and she tweeted that the two were "merely having fun." Pink wrote that she was "not sensitive enough to the real plight of women these days." My onstage behavior was disgusting, and I can't blame it." Coe retracted her essay, claiming she had defended Pink at his behest and that he had exposed her to physical and mental abuse throughout their relationship. Pink denied Coe's allegations and accused her of spreading lies that she did not know were inaccurate or inaccurate, as well as attempting to blackmail him.

Pink also obtained civil harassment restraining orders against Coe in 2020. The lawsuit was dismissed, but the court did not decide on Pink's or Coe's abuse charges. Pink said he was unable to afford legal assistance a week after the court dismissed the complaint, but his counsel told Pitchfork that they would appeal shortly.

Pink appeared on Fox News' Red Eye with Greg Gutfield in 2013 talking about space robots and marijuana use in the NFL. "Anyone who is screaming about police brutality or victimization as a child, as it taught him to be thick skinned," he said in 2015.

During a discussion of his religious convictions in 2012, Pink said he was never "reluctant to be religious," to fully embrace the tenets of Christianity, Judaism, or whatever, but I also don't fully fall in with the science team. When asked if he attended Hanukkah, he replied that he did not, except when his parents encouraged him to do so. In a 2010 interview with Heeb Magazine, he said that people who boasted of their Jewish heritage are "fucking stupid." "I'm completely against it," he said. I believe you are a man of the world. Globally, the world has changed. You should know that we're all from the same DNA strand. It's like potatoes are our brothers. Well, so silly."

"I would say I'm for America in whatever capacity comes in," Pink was asked in a 2017 interview. I would have been like, right on, if Hillary [Clinton] had won [the 2016 election]... As long as we are a nation united by nature, that's all I care about." When asked whether he was Republican or Democrat in an April 2020 interview, he said he did not "believe in party lines" and instead stood with "whoever is in charge." Pink tweeted his love for Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential race.

Pink said during an appearance on the podcast Wrong Opinion in December 2020 that the Democratic Party had tampered the recent presidential election "in some sort of collusion with China." Trump portrayed "an indictment on anything bullshit," he said. "I'm so gay for Trump, I'd let him fuck me in the butt." In addition, he voiced reservations about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, adding that many of their allegations, including those regarding climate change, were "probably [are] bullshit" and politically motivated, and that he had argued with his father, a medical scientist, about its effectiveness.

Pink travelled to Washington, D.C., in January 2021, the first Republican rally to prelude the Capitol's tumultuous. Pink said he attended the rally to "absolutely show his love for President Trump." He was not part of the party that wrangled the Capitol; Pink said on Twitter that he returned to his hotel immediately after hearing the president speak. Following the controversies that ensued, Pink spoke out on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight to support president-elect Joe Biden, saying that Trump "lost [the election] fairly."

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