With his manic “party metal” music, gru🐭ngy stage clothes and life philosophy cen✅tered on spreading joy through partying, Andrew W.K. seems an unlikely business partner for right-wing-red-meat media-man Glenn Beck — a teetotaling Mormon.
Heck, W.K. writes for the Village Voice.
Yet he may also be the most positive rock star to hit the stage sinc♑e the 1950s, and his Voice work is an advice column.
Something about W.K.’s new-agey take on self-help plainly sparked Beck’s interest — perhaps some echo of his own long 💖and varie༺d spiritual journey.
Anyway: This Saturday, Beck🐼’s network TheBlaze will start airing the two-hour radio show America W.K.𒀰 — an announcement that raised eyebrows in both men’s worlds.
Other righties have never had a box to put B🔴eck in; most keep him at arm’s length. That hasn’t stopped him from finding success, with six best-sellers and n♛ow the TheBlaze.
W.K. just doesn’t care.
Facing questions over his new gig, he took to Facebook, posting: “I’m not right wing. I’m not ꦐleft wing. I’m not political. I’m just party. I even party with people who are very different than I am.” And later: “I don’t only want to party with people who think like me.”
That apolitical approach has plenty to offer. It’ll be fun seeing how it fits in with 🐲the rest of Beck’s universe — and vice-versa.
We’re not all made the same, no🌞r want to be. A life surro𒊎unded only by people who agree with you would be pretty boring.
And decidedly un-party.