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God, I wanna say "fuck you" but I know you're just the messenger. I'm fucking upset by this, even if he was a COVID supporter and possibly a Trumper in his last years.

I spent a lot of my young adulthood cranking out Meat Loaf songs at karaoke. My go-to was Paradise by the Dashboard Lights, which is as annoying and long as you'd imagine. Shit would leave me hoarse as fuck, but I LOVED it.

Jim Steinman was a total fucking loss. I'm sad that he and Meat Loaf could never quite reconcile. But Meat Loaf is the face of the band. He's the fucking guy people think of, you know?

He'd had heart conditions for a while, and he's collapsed on stage a few times in the past few years. His voice had degraded because he refused to treat vocal polyps - I don't think he knew how to actually sing, preferring to sing from the throat. But fuck me, I loved this man's music.

The worst part for me is the time I spent with people I don't speak to anymore, where my appreciation of his music was a real sticking point. I don't need them trying to make contact now. I just want to mourn with this bottle of rum and consider the karaoke possibilities when COVID stops fucking my nation in the ass.

For all that was right and wrong about Michael Faraday, he was a great source of entertainment for me and I had a great and genuine appreciation for him. His absence will truly be felt by this drunken motherfucker thousands of miles away from where he lived and died. RIP, you conflicting yet magnificent son of a bitch.