Talk:Stephin Merritt

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If anyone has biographical data on Merritt it would be great if they'd add it. AW

There is a page at http://www.sbu.ac.uk/stafflag/stephinmerritt.html with a couple of interesting bits, but I'm a bit reluctant to write it up just now because for all I know it's completely made up (it's the only source I can find on the web). I think I've got a couple of articles about him in magazines somewhere, so I'll try to dig them out, and there's a couple of reference books I can check as well. Then my need to check facts should be fulfilled. Maybe I'm being too cautious - if so, feel free to add

the stuff on that page here. --Camembert

The page has a confusing (in attribution) claim that S.M. may have been responsible for the theme of Deep Throat. I don't know anything about this, but movie came out when he was 6 years old. Perhaps someone can clarify or investigate?

What do other people think? --MrCheshire

I don't care one way or the other. Is this better? --AllanBz 03:45, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is it noteworthy to include the famous controversy of Stephin's comment about the song "Zip a Dee Doo Da," which had him labeled a racist by bloggers?

I kinda think the bloggers who labeled him "racist" have as much credibility as some clown on the street. Isn't it equally racist to require someone to like hip-hop - or to imagine that hip-hop is somehow the official music of black people?--72.131.42.216 04:14, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm noyt touching the issue of whether his comments were racist or not, but it was a pretty newsworthy thing about him that got a lot of buzz.Ohjeeztower 17:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

newsworthy to critics who relish seeing their own names in print. 'l'affaire merritt' was a farce; should you add anything about it, i will delete it as heresay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.29.77 (talk) 07:03, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

As interview subject

Merritt is a notoriously difficult interview subject, although he continues to grant interviews. I'm sure someone has said so in writing in a citable source. Does anyone have a suggestion where we could find someone writing about that? - Jmabel | Talk 16:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

“Stephen” Merritt

Merritt’s real first name may very well be “Stephen” but the source given was a self-described “fan-blog” that anyway didn’t even talk about his birth name.--Lairor (talk) 19:58, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

Further, if, as the 'Personal' section of the article (which is sourced) states, 'Stephin' was a spelling/name adopted for 'sorting his junk mail', it shouldn't be listed as 'Birth Name' in the infobox, should it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.113.105 (talk) 12:35, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

I've blanked the birth name field in the infobox. The text of the article makes it evident that "Stephin" is a respelling that Merritt uses as his stage name, rather than being the name he was given at birth. Further, no source was cited for Merritt's middle name, and I can't readily find one, so I've removed it from the article. (AllMusic does give "Raymond," but it's apparently not entirely reliable for biographical info, and a better source would be nice for a BLP.) Yspaddadenpenkawr (talk) 17:09, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

"Only wears brown clothing"

It seems rather pointless to include this (evidently outdated) piece of trivia when the article main image shows him wearing clothes that are clearly not brown... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.67.24 (talk) 15:06, 14 February 2020 (UTC)