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Put Nardwuar's BROCKHAMPTON Interview In the MoMA Immediately

Nardwuar's conversation with the minds behind the 'SATURATION' trilogy should go down in history.
Lauren O'Neill
London, GB

My fascination with the world's greatest music journalist – the man, the myth, the Nardwuar – is well documented, and it's true that every interview he does is precious and pure and beautiful. Sometimes, though not often, Nardwuar collides with another precious, pure, beautiful force, and the result is a video of such awesome loveliness that you can feel your heart growing a number of sizes à la the Grinch at the climax of seminal film How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000, Howard). The former is true of Nardwuar's latest outing, where he finally interviewed the world's greatest, most vital boyband, and positive social force, BROCKHAMPTON.

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As with all Nardwuar interviews, he had gifts aplenty (received, of course, with adorable enthusiasm), and knew about all sorts of weird anecdotes involving the members, as Nardwuar is wont to do. This interview has about 17 different 'best bits' throughout its 22 minute run-time, so I picked out a few important moments which, I think, exemplify why it is a) a classic Nardwuar interview, and b) deserves to be displayed as a historical artefact of supportive, loving masculinity in the world's greatest art museums. Like, there's definitely space for this shit in the Tate, let's make it happen.

1) All the pictures of the individual members posing with Nardwuar and their gifts.
These speak for themselves honestly.

I could go on. 2) When Matt Champion introduces himself
"Heeey. Matt… here."

3) This closeup of Bob Dylan's fingernails on the tour programme given as a gift to Roberto
This is truly disgusting and only serves to highlight that all of the members of BROCKHAMPTON surely groom themselves perfectly, like house cats.

4) When Nardwuar brings up Prince Liquor, Ameer's beloved liquor store
"SHOUTOUT TO PRINCE'S LIQUOR, Y'ALL FUCKIN KEPT ME ALIVE, I FUCK WITH PRINCE'S LIQUOR, THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SKATE IN FRONT OF THAT MOTHERFUCKER."

"THE TACOS IN THE FUCKIN PARKING LOT. OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH." It's great when artists love Nardwuar's little known anecdotes but this might be the best reaction in any Nardwuar video ever, thank you Ameer.

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5) When Nardwuar unearths the school photo of the only member absent from the interview, Kiko.
Cue Ameer raising it aloft yelling: "IS THIS YOUR KING?"

The members have lots of nice things to say about their pal, but Merlyn puts it best, calling him, in a quiet voice, "The kind giant that you always want to be your friend." :''''')

As I say there are many other perfect moments here (not least a well-mannered Kevin thanking Nardwuar for the interview, saying "You're such a great guy and we're honoured"), but those are my favourites. Do yourself a favour and watch the whole thing above for the sweetest 20 minutes of your week, and also sign my upcoming change.org petition to get this in galleries around the world.

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