The 5-star staff at Rosen Group PR is sending out an email blast today on behalf of their client Billboard magazine, which features Robin Williams rehab wannabe Keith Urban on its current issue. (It hits newsstands today — which we're only telling you so Rosen Group will continue sending us those mini chocolate cookies every other Friday.) Says the missive:
Tamara Conniff, Billboard’s executive editor & associate publisher, was one of the only journalists to sit down with Urban before he entered rehab.
Which is a lovely way to spin "Tamara Conniff happened to sit down with Keith Urban right before he went into rehab, but our story has nothing about Keith talking about his decision to do so. There's nothing in there about his alcohol addiction, just some smarmy content on how Nicole Kidman influences his music. Which means there's probably nothing in this article that you haven't read before."
Tamara Conniff, the music industry's embodiment of the Peter Principle at work…
I thought this part of the article was the most interesting.
The greatest high for a musician, says Urban, is a live performance that “clicks”—when the band hits a grove that is transcendent. “It's (the high) that you look for in all the synthetic stuff, but you can't find it. It won't stop you from looking.”
Rehab scandal? What scandal? The man saw a problem and sought help for it. This is a good thing and very courageous, but there's nothing scandalous about it.
This is beyond lightweight reporting. She's been spending waaaay too much time on her knees…
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