Music

Rosie O'Donnell officially enjoys Arcade Fire

by Anne T. Donahue

Feel free to remove Rosie O’Donnell from your musically-based hit list, Arcade Fire fans: the former daytime TV host has reneged on her “Arcade Fire? Um. Never heard of them” tweet from earlier this week and revealed to Extra that she’s introduced herself to the band since coming under fire for not being hip and/or with it.

Maintaining her tweet wasn’t “so horrible,” she maintains that she had legitimately had “never heard of them,” and went on to elaborate on the retaliation she received from the band’s fanbase:

“It’s not like I had heard of them but didn’t know their music. I had never heard those 2 words together. Arcade. Fire. No idea. So I wrote that, then the Arcade Fire fans went insane: ‘Who do you think you are? You’re fat! You’re old. You’re irrelevant. I can’t believe you did that!’ . . . Now I have downloaded all of their records. All of their CDs. And they are enjoyable. I get it.”

[via Vulture]