For anyone who is unaware, all music journalists conspire with each other to not only ask the same questions of each recording artist, but ask them in the same order. It has been a big secret for years, but nobody could pull the wool over the eyes of Kid Rock. Not even Entertainment Weekly's Chris Willman, one of the best rock scribes going. As part of a collection of rambling tirades, Willman was subjected to this swell theory from Mr. Bob Ritchie, who may or may not be "Rock and Roll Jesus":

It's funny. Every interview I do, I can tell you what the people are gonna say. They're gonna talk about the record; about five questions down, they're gonna ask something silly; about eight questions down, they're gonna try to ask me about Pamela. It's so f---in' cookie cutter, it's almost hilarious. Because everyone is supposed to be so creative and have these innovative magazines and want to be great writers and do things in their own way, yet they're all the same — on down the line, every single one of 'em. And I know the editors tell 'em all to do it. [Breaking into an imitation of a journalist.] ''I didn't come up with the questions, dude. I gotta ask you about it, though.'' Do you really? Well, that's fun. You sound like a disc jockey nowadays: ''I don't play what I want, I'm told what to do.'' It doesn't sound like something you go to school for and be creative. Anyway, go ahead.