Rob Thomas offended by rumors of Scientology (oh yeah, and being Tom Cruise's gay lover)

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MATCHBOX 20 frontman ROB THOMAS has rubbished reports he had sex with Hollywood superstar TOM CRUISE - and is even more mortified he's been labelled a fellow Scientologist.

The SOMETHING TO BE singer is horrified by claims he was caught in bed with the WAR OF THE WORLDS star and has finally spoken out to end the rumours.

But he's even more offended by reports he's joined Cruise and other followers of L RON HUBBARD's Church Of Scientology, which has been labelled a "cult" by some critics.

He says, "If I were gay, Tom wouldn't be on the top of my list...It would be BRAD PITT.

"I'm more offended by the rumours saying I'm Scientologist."

I've always felt bad for Brad Pitt because he has a never ending supply of heterosexual men saying that they would never sodomize any other man....BUT HIM!

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

ROB THOMAS
Something to Be
Atlantic

Think you know Rob Thomas? Think again! The husky-voiced Matchbox Twenty singer who came to greater prominence from his vocals on the Carlos Santana track "Smooth" has just dropped his first solo album, and hold on to your hats folks, ‘cause it's a doozy!

Oh sure, he's made some concession to commercial pressures with passable first single "Lonely No More" as well as leadoff track "This Is How a Heart Breaks," both of which traffic in reworked Santana-isms and almost Creedy grunts and hip thrusts. But then "Ever the Same" rolls around, and suddenly your ears are bombarded with an impossibly high squeal in the left channel and a soul-destroying bass burst in the right, and that's just the intro to a song that sounds like Kid606 producing Steve Reich on a year's worth of amphetamines in a cornfield filled with crop circles and active landmines.

After two more tracks of sonic punishment in various guises (Lightning Bolt gone J-pop and a punch-drunk Wolf Eyes' attempt at doing a Björk production), you start to realize that Thomas has taken the bold step of filling his album with as many different experimental breaks as possible - a veritable greatest hits of modern music's abrasive sounds - all in an attempt to forge a "bold" new persona for himself as the Madonna of experimental noise dudes. Something to Be, indeed! This is not for the weak-hearted, but if you're willing to be challenged by music rather than coddled, Rob Thomas is your guy.

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

!?!?!?!??!

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Kid606 producing Steve Reich on a year's worth of amphetamines in a cornfield filled with crop circles and active landmines.

If I were as upset about being uncool as Rob Thomas is (Rob Thomas moaning about being uncool in the new GQ), that's honestly just about exactly the kind of thing I'd do.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I've always felt bad for Brad Pitt because he has a never ending supply of heterosexual men saying that they would never sodomize any other man....BUT HIM!

He's the stand-by name for guys who don't want it to appear like they've actively given thought to the question.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Rob Thomas is just as boring as every other straight man who dreams of boning Brad Pitt. If he'd said he found, say, Bill Cosby, hot and delicious I'd give him more cred.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

That's true. No hetero man ever says "my first choice would be Elijah Wood."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

No hetero man ever says "my first choice would be Rob Thomas."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Who in the hell wrote that review?

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Patrick Bateman.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

He's the stand-by name for guys who don't want it to appear like they've actively given thought to the question.

Haha, OTM.

Elijah Wood is cuet.

Anyway, Mike Barthel wrote the R. Thomas review. He posts here as Eppy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if Stephen Jenkins is sitting in a meth-house somewhere seeing this stuff on E! and sobbing to himself softly.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I really don't get the deal about Brad Pitt. Like, at all.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

My first choice, Cary Grant, dead or alive.

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

if any straight guy said brad pitt, rob thomas, OR elijah wood, i'd think they were nuts.

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I think RT gets credit for naming names. That's more than most would do.

If he were just to say "if I were gay, Tom Cruise wouldn't be at the top of my list" that would be a simultaneous denial of bisexuality and an outright diss, thereby something like a +2 in machismo. By adding the Brad Pitt part, he admits that such a possibility would not be out of the realm of plausibility, thus losing the machismo points right quick and lands back somewhere in bicuriosity territory.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

that's an awesome review!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I could never imagine sex with Cary Grant, and I've tried. He'll treat you to an expensive dinner, you'll enjoy delightfully civilized conversation with lots of one-liners exchanged; then he'll take you back to your place for Grand Marnier and – the screen fades to black, you're lying in bed, and Cary's gone, out scaling rooftops and stealing diamonds.

(What this has to do with Rob Thomas and Tom Cruise is anybody's guess).

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if Stephen Jenkins is sitting in a meth-house somewhere seeing this stuff on E! and sobbing to himself softly.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) "You make love without fading out?"

http://www.thelin.net/laurent/cinema/photos/la_rose_pourpre_du_caire/jeff_daniels.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

this thread is even better than the last one.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

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