8. He Gives Great Advice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtx2GeQN-DQ Its not just general motivational speaking that Andrew W.K. has indulged in either. In more recent years he has become one of the worlds most respected agony aunts, by way of his Village Voice column, Ask Andrew W.K. Debuting in January 2014, W.K. was introduced by the Voices editor Brian McManus as the Pope, Ann Landers, and Dear Abby at a raging kegger, helping talk the highest guy in the room off the chewed-up ledge of life. McManus had possibly got the inspiration for Ask Andrew W.K. from the singers Japanese advice column in the music magazine Rockin On. This ran for ten years, ending in 2012, and even spawned a book titled I Will Change Your Life. When he transferred to the Voice, his advice went mainstream, and one of his columns in particular received a lot of attention. Told by a reader My dad is a right-wing asshole, W.K. responded by taking the writer to task about why he had defined his father by his politics, rather than as a person. His treatment of the subject was widely praised, and for many, put W.K. in a different light. Other columns, though less celebrated, have touched on potential heroin use, suicide, the death of a friend, white guilt, and even being told by one reader to eat shit and die". But regardless of the question, Andrew W.K. has always responded with remarkable insight, candour and humility.