Kennedy interviews J Mascis for MTV Alternative Nation 1993

[@richalderson6069]

It's amazing what a monster sound comes out of this introverted quiet guy.

[@thehecter52]

"Do you have empathy for people?" "...No"

[@saladhands1127]

Their personalities couldnt be more different lmao

[@marketville]

This interview predates the song Feel the Pain. J literally might have got the idea from the chick at the start of the interview

[@galapagcs]

That's what i was thinking!

[@marketville]

@@galapagcs unreal! Thanks for sharing the video. You and I may have discovered a nugget of music history!

[@MikeWest11]

Wow that’s pretty interesting lol. At first I thought she was trying to reference the song but then I saw your comment

[@nesfan8]

I mean it CANT be coincidence

[@scampoli25]

Did you steal this comment from me?

[@joshingtonbarthsworth631]

"I feel your pain." "Really?" God this interview is such a microcosm of the 90s. I miss this shit. Long live J. Mascis. "One of the songs was really sad." "Aww"

[@blib3786]

J when talking about his music: 1:26 J when talking about some random TV show from the 90s: 2:40

[@fattyboombatty2000]

“You’re living all over me” is my favorite too! I knew it.

[@klatt6721]

he got so excited about television and then immediately quieted down when the subject changed

[@lucasbaxter5850]

J just wants to play his jazzmaster goddammit

[@kingbopit9318]

Kennedy just seems like a cool girl to hang out with. So outgoing, humble, friendly and just like a nice person

[@devinftf]

“Was that fun, doing a video?” “It was a barrel of laughs.”

[@ryandonahue5850]

Cheers to Kennedy, getting more out of J than most interviewers can.

[@warshipsatin8764]

especially back then. he's opened up a lot more over the years it seems. back then he gave one word answers and showed literally zero emotion at all times

[@charliegrs]

Fuck Kennedy. Shes become a fox news wacko

[@evanisovich]

“They’re fuckin, brother and sister!” @ 2:52 😂

[@9vbattery297]

Even in 1993 J Mascis has been around The block many times in the music industry. He’s only 28 in the interview. Now I get that people that play guitar don’t think they sound better than anyone else who plays guitar but J Mascis is leagues better at guitar then Neil young. It’s crazy how good he is at guitar

[@SHMUPS]

00:29 she gives him the idea for feel the pain

[@FreakSceneNet]

Thanks for putting it back up! I always watch this when it gets posted :)

[@stpowers8204]

I adore how you never know when J is gonna get loud in conversation 🤣🤣 2:40

[@hootyhaha]

He was passionate about whatever daytime show that was they were discussing. I noticed the same thing before seeing your comment :) LOL!

[@GlynDwr-d4h]

I've watched enough J interviews to have arrived at some theories about this, because he does this in other interviews too. I really think it's that he'll start an interview and he's just being himself, but this almost never works for the interviewer, and some are more off put by his personality than others, so then he tries to correct for it and sometimes overcompensates. It actually shows that he's not really as much of an asshole as some people claim, nor is he aloof. It's actually just him making an effort for the benefit of the interviewer. J has conceded in interviews over the years that people very often don't know how to take him and that as a younger person he was a bit of an asshole that often upset people. It was either that or people thought he was weird, or an acid burnout/stoner, even when he was straight edge. lol. So it's not like he's unaware.

[@void0094]

I'm hearing My Bloody Valentine, Smashing Pumpkins and R.E.M. in the background. Awesome.

[@Antonio-nn5ot]

stone roses

[@nesfan8]

Fools Gold around 4 50 mark

[@Penny_Royalty]

And ministry

[@d21.]

What’s the song that starts around 6:30?

[@nancyyoung5581]

@@d21. carolyns fingers cocteau twins

[@GrinGillis]

I love J Mascis interviews. Autistic creative genius doing his best to communicate

[@radwizard]

He looks so young!!! But he used to look so old to me back in 93!!

[@davidneumann2705]

So weird to me as well

[@LuisMiranda-go7kx]

Maybe cause of the gray hair

[@zeromath20]

In this interview this is the loudest I’ve ever heard J speak

[@mj.l]

kennedy: "i have empathy for people" also kennedy: becomes a right wing libertarian talking head on faux news

[@dourtandouar1318]

But there's nothing wrong with that. -Seinfeld

[@StainlessTIG2]

My goodness these where the best days ever! I saw Alice N Chains open for Ozzy September 22nd 1992…I was 21 years old and boy did we work hard and partied even harder back then.

[@vaknawakeup9176]

I love this

[@Bredavendavin]

Before this video got taken down/reposted there was a comment that said "This feels like every interaction I had with girls in college" and I just wanted to repost because that comment made me laugh and I still think about it

[@SHMUPS]

6:08 she mentions vaginal mycosis. look at his face. and then laughs like wtf did i just say

[@hootyhaha]

No VJ ever knew how to interview. Every single MTV interview I have ever seen has always been extremely akward, no matter how much I like the VJ. These interviews are so painful. Jeeze, research folks... come up with questions... hold some flash cards. I think Kurt Loder might have been the only guy on MTV that ever conducted actual interviews.

[@johndawhale3197]

9:06 LOL !!!

[@breakercassidy6946]

There are people who had the hots for Daisy or Kennedy. I was all about Kennedy. These alternative nation videos make my heart flutter…yeah, I’ve had a few Chardonnay’s what of it?

[@Jake-pz7oi]

He drinks a lot of root beer…

[@kingbopit9318]

2:43 that’s the loudest I’ve heard J talk ever

[@armondoserna2342]

Dino jr great

[@averyadrian1534]

The 90’s I heard Jesus and the Mary chain stone roses and my bloody valentine during this interview - us gen Xers had the best music

[@MikeHanleyherecords]

What a long painful time

[@DrillForAbsentee]

Lou Barlow is only a shard more extroverted than J. Can you imagine those 2 on tour together? Of course, they seem like such nice, relatable guys compared to, say, the DBs in Metallica for example.

[@smallman9787]

5:23 only shallow what the hell

[@alexmalch]

rhineceros by sp next

[@James-wj8eq]

Ah, the days when Jay looked like Paul Simon's younger brother...

[@hootyhaha]

10:00 "Dinosaur Jr. are back to their original trio format... " (does he mean 3 people in a band, or 3 original members in the band )? Because following his sentence he talks about the new bass player in that trio format... confused with choice of wording. Lou Barlow was the original Trio. Or did they have more members before meaning it wasn't a trio people wise. Man I just gave myself a headache.

[@Hesh688]

Do you have any idea where i can find out about his early childhood? I need it for a project

[@KevlarVTX]

Uh, try Googling J Mascis. The man is a legend.

[@maplesalt1482]

lmao here we go

[@kingbopit9318]

5:11 what the hell was that?

[@Chames_Chaikowski]

Holy shit is this the same lady that’s on Fox News all the time ?

[@sumeursault]

I heard a bunch of words, but did they actually SAY anything?

[@brysimm404]

God I hated Kennedy back then and had no idea how she ended up with a job on MTV. This look back is no different.

[@CruceEntertainment]

0:34 ..... and then she feels nothing?

[@davidcross701]

Wow... people forget that Alternative music and MTV where not compatible. We hated MTV.

[@thomaspatrickmorgan]

Absolutely despised it...yet still hate-watched constantly.

[@shesulli]

It's no wonder she ended up a Fox News lackey.

[@DredgenX]

CUTTIN AND SCRATCHIN!!! EVER SEEN ANY WITCHES?!?!

[@Allidoisworry]

What a god awful interviewer I understand he’s not super extroverted but it seems like she didn’t do any research at all wish they took better advantage of the opportunity

[@hayden667]

Poor j

[@durdencaulfield2845]

Goddamn she's insufferable... I give him props for even sitting through this.

[@BrooklynBaby100]

Oh grow some balls already it’s been long enough

[@durdencaulfield2845]

@@BrooklynBaby100 Well I just saw it again two days ago and it's still one of the worst interviews I've ever seen, and it's not J's fault. Time hasn't changed anything. Are YOU Kennedy?

[@stevemorgan4084]

She is interviewing a potted plant. How do you interveiw a stoner who can't speak! Wake up!

[@evanisovich]

@@stevemorgan4084 funny enough, he claims to have never done any drugs 😂

[@stevemorgan4084]

If he isn't stoned? ☞ his mother dropped him on his head☜..

[@myessyallyahamericus8405]

The masons hate me because I know more of their secrets than they do. They have none.

[@danjwalker]

0:34 Lol. Referencing his own lyrics. Isn't Kennedy a right winger now?

[@powbobs]

She turned out to be incapable of empathy.

[@myessyallyahamericus8405]

I have one. Which girls crazy enough to care about me. None so far

[@dourtandouar1318]

Wonder if J is a Fox Nation person?

[@GlynDwr-d4h]

lol

[@walterbison]

I know Kennedy will drown anyone out but man, J is a mumbler.

[@AaronSmith-kt2fs]

God this is painful. He’s a horrible interview, and to fix it Kennedy triples down on the Kennedy routine and it just gets worse and worse and worse

[@xntruth9131]

Man..😂

[@msimmons5850]

song at around 6:18? it sounds so familiar

[@galapagcs]

I believe it's Rhinoceros by The Smashing Pumpkins

[@msimmons5850]

@@galapagcs thanks, you were right

[@scottycunningham1413]

She's cute, ngl.

[@MrBank325]

The cringe is real.

[@Koettnylle]

Way to adapt to your guest

[@hootyhaha]

By the way.. Dinosaur Jr. . . not a 90s band. An 80s band far back in the mid 80s. Sorry 90s, 80s wins again :)

[@Shingula]

ah yes Kennedy by far the most annoying of annoying mtv hosts

[@glueball9511]

monoboard lmao

[@averyadrian1534]

It’s all an act

[@p42uynot59]

This guy sounded just pathetically burned out on something.😂

[@joeyod7550]

Why, who gave her a job?!

[@Penny_Royalty]

She was kind of an icon in the 90s as far as mtv vee jays.. crazy where she ended up but she did a lot better than a lot of people did interviewing J.

[@MiltoncarlosCastaneda-hw4ov]

Mtv rules! ! With my hiv; condition; 😄😄😄💟👧👧👧😄😄😄

[@crypttonite]

interviews r a stupid set up. if u walked up to j out in the real world acting the way mtv personalities act, he would run, most people would & yet here he is volunteering to this dumbing down of everyone involved. he said at 13 he decided to drop out of society, by age 16 he has a radio show at a MAJOR UNIVERSITY, explain his entre? Here he’s being interviewed by the ultimate not dropped out of society channel. People posing as counter cultural with signature guitars by fender available at guitar center.

[@jacquiwesley455]

I just wanted to dislike. JK. He's so totally staid & cool. Kennedy is so Trump