The New York Times recently asked playboy rockstar Lenny Kravitz to expose his playlist. His answers may go down as the least well-put thing the New York Times has ever printed. It also ranks quite strongly on the Julia Allison Scale of Lack Of Self-Awareness (JASLOSA). Waxing poetic on Devendra Banhart, Kravitz write, " I just think it's really great. The song "Saved" is just incredible. He has this crazy voice, and it's this gospel kind of thing. It sounds like the song that rolls over the end title credits to some incredible movie. It's really well produced and recorded. I like his style. He's completely himself." Trenchant critique, that! It's not like Kravitz is busy making love or anything. He could have actually strung some words together that actually made sense. But nope. After the jump, some more Kravitzian prose and some bonus videos too!

"It's really well produced and recorded. I like his style. He's completely himself. Music on the radio is in a very bad state because people are not really musicians, not really writers or singers in a lot of cases. Everything is geared toward selling, and the music is like McDonald's: tastes good going down but then you're like, why did I do it? Artists are not celebrated for their abilities, for being different or for having their own voice. It's all homogenized. It has to fit into a format. Devendra makes music from his heart. He's like, ‘This is the music I like, this is the music I'm going to make.' I'm just glad to hear some interesting, colorful music. It's out there, if you search for it, but it's not what's being featured in the marketplace. Would Bob Dylan get a record deal today? Would he be on MTV? It's a trip."

And now, to underscore Kravitz's well-made point that the people on the radio "are not really musicians, not really writers or singers in a lot of cases" and that "everything is geared toward selling" here is "American Woman," Kravitz's biggest hit and a song written by a band called The Guess Who that Kravitz covered with great success in the Austin Power's film The Spy Who Shagged Me on the left. Above that, we have Kravitz' other big hit, this one at least half-written by him, called "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" I like it because, he has this crazy voice. Also I just think it's really great.

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