![]() ![]() It’d be easy to view Singer as the “smirking hipster” that this article calls him, but I mean, you’d probably be chuckling to yourself if you were sitting in a living room with R. (I can’t remember what kind of music he listened to in college, but I do remember that his roommate was a big Dar Williams fan.) Matt’s reactions to Kelly’s labor of love are weirdly mesmerizing the part where Kelly tells him that they need to get some girls up in there is by far my favorite. Matt, to put it delicately, doesn’t exactly strike anyone as being well-versed in R&B. Matt’s a good guy, and I’m happy to see him playing such an active role in such a big cultural phenomenon, but his presence is just one of the many truly bizarre and anomalous aspects of the whole “Trapped” thing. So the ongoing spectacle of the “Trapped in the Closet” saga gains an additional weird wrinkle with him attached, awkwardly interviewing Kelly and perching uncomfortably next to him on a couch before the individual episodes come on. Matt and I were never boys or anything, but we were pretty good acquaintances, and I did see him every day for a while there. ![]() We lived on the same dorm floor sophomore year, and we both DJed at the college radio station. (Pete can’t remember.) But I actually knew Singer before that I went to college with him. ![]() Matt Singer, the guy who’s been hosting IFC.com’s stream of the new “Trapped in the Closet” chapters, used to be a Voice film intern, and I’ve got this theory that he might’ve first heard about “Trapped” from fellow former Voice intern and vocal R.
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