Andrew Kuo is a well-respected visual artist about whom I know little. Since I can’t find Kriston online, you should use the internet to get familiar with him. Today he decides to severely complicate his career, if not end it entirely.

Amanda IM’d me Kuo’s New York Times chart whimsically graphing his assessment of the hilarity of Kanye West’s "Robocop" over and above "Achy Breaky Heart," "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover," Ugly Kid Joe’s "Everything About You," "Back Off Bitch" by Guns N’ Roses and "No Woman No Cry." And let me stop everything right here: "Robocop" isn’t a funny song. It’s an angry one. The chart is kind of a category error. If he’s simply graphing the quotability of "Robocop," that would be one thing. But from the jump, Kuo’s got some conceptual slack to deal with. 

Then there are the criteria for adjudication. "I’m Not Mad At This But If You Were A TINY Bit Funnier She Might Call You Back, Dude!"? If Kanye wants his Robocop to call back, it’s out of a self-destructive impulse. He’s working something out — and admittedly, breaking up with someone you love and hate is not a linear process — and, at the least, is not straightforwardly calling for attention. Again: conceptual slack. 

And then: you really think there’s a line from Billy Ray Cyrus that possibly outshines the straightforward confessional brilliance of "I think sex is overrated, too" from UKJ’s Whitfield Crane? It takes most of us at least ten years to come to terms with just how spiritually unfulfilling sex can be, and the vast majority of us never ever admit this outside of a therapist’s office or a church group. That lyric is a public service. Andrew, this chart tells us more about you than it does the songs here.