This Sunday, Axl Rose finally made good on promises of Chinese Democracy. It’s been seventeen years since the last batch of original music released by Guns n’ Roses and nine years since the title started floating around. Rose’s efforts to record the most expensive album ever have at the very least secured him a legendary role in pop culture. Chinese Democracy is now even defined in Urban Dictionary as: “A promise, often made more than once over an extended period of time, which the person is either unwilling or unable to keep.” While the album could never live up to seventeen years of expectations, it is growing on me. It has a ton of faults along with the scattered (yet numerous) flashes of brilliance, but at the very least, you’ve got to respect the perseverance. The pressure must have been unreal, and to release anything at all at this point shows balls. Hopefully Axl will continue his experimentation and allow videos like this to exist:

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