We need to talk about Ronan Farrow’s not so secret musical career

I looked up the music video. I guess it's really not so secret at all, OP, since he's in the video.

R1 yeah but unless you know to go look for it, you’d never know.

It’s actually not a bad song. I wouldn’t say he’s at any risk of becoming the next big popstar but it’s not terrible.

I enjoyed it.

Welp. Proof positive he's not Frank's kid.

Shut in kid makes music.

It's like two different songs. I like his part better.

It’s always been pretty obvious he’s not Frank’s. I do think Mia and him hooked up around the time Ronan was conceived and she this wasn’t lying when she said it was possible, it was just an extremely slim possibility since he had already had a vasectomy.

He's not terrible..but, my god, has he had a lot of plastic surgery or something?

He reminds me of a blonde kd lang but without the singing talent.

R8 yeah he needs to ease up on that. He had a beautiful face and didn’t need to mess with it.

Ronan looks a lot like Mia did.

[quote]We need to talk about Ronan Farrow’s not so secret musical career

We beg to differ.

R12 yet here you are!

R11 yeah the whole “he looks like Frank” thing is really just because Mia also looks like Frank

R7 At the time the Ronan would have been conceived Sinatra was recuperating from invasive bowel surgery in Palm Springs. But I'm sure little Mia could've found a way to accommodate the legendary schlong without putting him under too much distress.

Can't imagine why he wouldn't want to retain a cool given name like Satchel. Would've been so sympatico with his budding musical career.

R16 probably because Woody picked it.

R15

(1) Invasive bowel surgery is majorly debilitating. Sex unlikely drg recovery.

(2) Frank was clipped by then.

Plus, Ronan seems to have inherited Woody's nasality.

If not actually crying, Jon Lovett seemed to at least get at little misty eyed post election night.

the story behind.

Did you know that Villiers is one of Mia's middle names?

R19 to a certain extent I feel for him but he also spent the last 4+ years crapping on Biden, beefing with the KHive and mocking Kamala endlessly so he did his part to contribute to the shitty outcome

I just saw someone speculate that this song is about Lovett being on the spectrum but undiagnosed and that makes a lot of sense. (I also think Ronan is on the spectrum)

His speaking voice is lower than that. He should sing in a lower register, as his upper sounds whiny.

Poor Ronan has had all that plastic surgery and has no singing talent yet MIA IS BITCH!

His voice is nicely suited to musical theater but pop music maybe not so much. It is better than the dance song (“Born to Lie”) he put on his podcast a few years back, though, which come to think of it was also probably about his ex cheating on him.

Can we just not, and say we did?

Ronan’s father is Mike Nichols.

Woody could not have children. He wrote it into Hannah and Her Sisters. Tony Roberts played the surrogate.

Ronan lived with Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer for several years when he was going to college in New York.

Ronan has had the tip of his nose worked on but he’s always had the bridge. John Farrow, Woody Allen and Frank Sinatra did not have Roman noses. Nichols did.

Aspergers can be fun.

R28 I agree with this theory also. Nichols is also a donor Woody would agree to because he respected him as an artist. I doubt he would have wanted it to be Frank.

Check out his 2015 Avril Lavigne cover at the “Rand Paul for President” hackathon.

He's absurd.

To the degree that he seems to want to reject Woody, wouldn't he seek out some kind of confirmation? A cheap ancestry test would at least rule out some possibilities.

R32 That would be a lose-lose for Satchel, who'd much rather keep up the Papa Frank affectation. In the unlikely event that he's not Woody's kid, wouldn't Woody be entitled to a refund for all those child-support payments?

Even after all the surgery, Ronan looks like a mashup of Letty Aronson and Mama Mia.

R32 he will never do that because Ronan being Woody’s kid is why Woody could not get away with his “I barely knew this woman or her kids and I met Soon-Yi when she was 19 as though she was a perfect stranger” narrative

Also, though I think it’s unlikely, he risks finding out that he does actually share Woody’s DNA and in that case he probably doesn’t want to know

R35 Allen has never proposed that narrative or anything like it.

r36 you’re saying he honestly told the media he was marrying his girlfriend’s daughter that he’d helped raise since she was 8? That’s not how I remember it

Before he and Lovett split, he looked like he was experimenting with a pre-MTF transition phase, and the Sinatra resemblance faded somewhat.

I don’t know why Dataloungers insist on thinking Ronan is trans or ever thought about transitioning. He turned into a gym “progress” guy and started bodybuilding immediately after they broke up.

(Actually, Lovett is the one who isn’t totally gender binary)

R39 Anectodal perhaps, but he and Lovett appeared in an interview from their home, his hair was grown out and flippable, wearing a blousy outfit, and acting very fem. Could be he was just playing or punking the interviewer.

According to the nanny’s book Satchel had gender dysphoria and Woody sent him to therapy.

You just know Mia wishes she had transed him in retrospect.

I thinks he's pretty damned good. He's trying something different and I admire him for that.

Isn't Satchel like a bag? Imagine naming your kid Bag.

He was named after the baseball player Leroy Robert " Satchel " Paige.

How can he accuse his ex of cheating when he himself was on Grindr nearly every day back then? 🤔

R46 according to word on the street it sounds like they both were.

I don’t think the openness per se was the problem it was more that they had different attitudes toward it. Ronan clearly wanted to do hookups together (as he does with his current bf) and that wasn’t his ex’s thing.

R41 having long hair & a loose shirt on does not make you trans

I don’t know if Ronan had gender dysphoria as a kid, people tell a lot of lies about this family, but if so Woody should take responsibility since he made it clear even before Ronan was born that he hated boys, felt boys were evil, and had no interest in him because of it. Said it to his face all the time. They had a terrible relationship from day one.

Ronan is actually quite lucky he wasn’t a girl because if he had been he’d have been the one Woody was obsessed with instead of Dylan. But he wouldn’t have known that as a baby obviously.

[quote]Ronan is actually quite lucky he wasn’t a girl because if he had been he’d have been the one Woody was obsessed with instead of Dylan

frau alert @ r49

Another talentless nepo (surrogate) baby who won’t stay in their conspiracist lane forcing their vanity projects on us.

R13, a statement of resistance is best placed in the camp of the creeps.

R50 it’s facts babe. Woody wanted a blonde girl baby with blue eyes.

Sure, Jan.

He used to have his own news show on MSNBC and I loved it-stick with what-cha know…

R55 he still does that kind of stuff, just with HBO. He just put out a documentary about spyware. Not the most compelling stuff, but important information.

I haven't felt forced to watch the new HBO/MAX doc on surveillance yet. Would this qualify as a talent free conspiracist vanity endeavour, in your mind?

R53 Well he got his daughters, neither appear to have those physical characteristics, but they sure do love and feel protective of their dad.

What's up with her hair?

Looks like a thatched bird's nest full of split ends.

R59 he started getting Zoomer-style boy band haircuts from Lukas Gage’s celebrity stylist and it’s been downhill ever since. He should have stuck with his long hair, it looked great during the pandemic when he wasn’t cutting it at all

[quote] I do think Mia and him hooked up around the time Ronan was conceived

Oh, [italic]dear.[/italic]

"Mia and he"

R61 Thank you, it is very important that we use proper grammar while shitposting on a gossip forum

This is DL.

[quote]Another talentless nepo (surrogate) baby who won’t stay in their conspiracist lane forcing their vanity projects on us.

Have you looked at his accomplishments? He was a child prodigy, starting college at 11 and graduating at 15, then going on to Yale Law School. Rhodes scholar, talented author, successful journalist and broadcaster, worked for UNICEF and the Obama administration... He's achieved more in his 36 years of life than most centenarians alive today. If he is "talentless," what word would you use to describe the rest of us?

At first I thought Leigh Nash was a drag queen. That is until I saw the tits.

Unspeakable..

Mia's descriptions of the dead children reminded me of Patty Hearst's memorials for her dead SLA comrades.

[quote]Cinque was in a race with time believing that every minute must be another step forward in the fight to save the children. Gelina was beautiful. She taught me how to fight the enemy within through her constant struggle with bourgeois conditioning. Gabi crouched low with her ass to the ground. She practiced until her shotgun was an extension of her right and left arms. Zoya, female guerrilla. Perfect love and perfect hate reflected in stone cold eyes. Fahizah taught me to shoot first and make sure the pig is dead before splitting. She was wise and bad. Cujo was the gentlest, most beautiful man I’ve ever known. He taught me the truth as he learned it from the beautiful brothers in California’s concentration camps Neither Cujo or I had ever loved an individual the way we loved each other. Our relationships foundation was our commitment to the struggle and our love for the People.

R64 = Mia

We thought “oh dear” dead but she’s still schlepping vowels while attendants empty her bowels in 3 8hr shifts.(she still enjoys contributing something)

Maybe just accept that he is extremely accomplished by anyone's standard, R68, rather than posting the mindless "R64 = Mia" to demonstrate your lack of wit and imagination.

[quote] At first I thought Leigh Nash was a drag queen

At first I thought she was a throwback Chrissy Amplett of the Divinyls.

Ronan Farrow is certainly academically "accomplished." But that doesn't stop him from being a sanctimonious, disingenuous, oleaginous, agenda-driven phony who's engineered his life and looks to impress an easily impressed fan base who chooses to view him, ludicrously, as an intrepid, groundbreaking reporter. Unsavory.

[quote]easily impressed fan base who chooses to view him, ludicrously, as an intrepid, groundbreaking reporter.

The New Yorker magazine and the Pulitzer Prize Board would seem to agree

He does undeniably good journalistic work, he is also pretty narcissistic. Two things can be true

I have to laugh when Leigh drops her shoes before joining Ronan to duet.

[quote]Two things can be true

Well, of course. But R72 also dismisses his work: "(...) "easily impressed fan base who choose to view him, ludicrously (...)"

Doom’s always had a thing against Ronan. Doom are you friends with his ex or something? Spill the tea

R77 Honey, it's just revulsion. I wish I had a better story. He makes my flesh crawl.

Ronan’s debit card got declined at one of the pride parties this year; I think it was Battle Hymn.

R77 there seem to be possibly multiple posters here who are familiar with Ronan, Jon, and the particulars of their lives, debit card and Grindr usage. If true, without divulging any of your own personal details, would love to hear how that is the case.

R80 it’s remarkable how discreet both they & their friends have been so good luck to you (or anyone here) in unearthing anything.

R67 I have no idea what this description is but it’s nothing to do with her children—?

R21 Villiers is not only Mia's middle name, but also the middle names of his maternal aunt, uncle and grandfather. It was also the maiden name of his maternal grandfather's mother.

R80 there were two posters on here that claimed to have hooked up with Ronan when he was with his ex — one was more plausible than the other.

There wasn’t much tea to spill there other than that apparently they had some rules along the lines of no threesomes and no hooking up at home. The fact that his current breakup ballad says “are you home, is there someone there” supports that narrative. If that guy who told us that story is still out there…well…I certainly believe you now

Is Ronan Farrow too good to be true?

I'm surprised he wanted to bring "Villiers" back to the fore. (I know; I know. I'll see myself out.)

R80 as for Jon — well, guys on Twitter said he was living the Grindr life but who knows, he was always very discreet. Which was a big part of the problem with that relationship because Ronan wanted to be known that they were open.

He is also now dating the person that used to be their housesitter/dogsitter so I don’t really know what was going on there but I believe Ronan is trying to make an implication with the song, whether it is true or not.

R87 Not being coy, I'm truly not familiar with how Grindr works - is it possible for people of some notoriety, like Jon and Ronan, to reasonably expect to hook up with a degree of anonymity? It seems that regardless of how discreet they might want to be, it's all really dependent on the other party.

^Isn't there some site that is only for well-vetted, rich people that Ben Afflack was using?

He has Frank’s eyes.

What do you mean? Frank eyes are normal.

r89 Raya

R88 well people have told stories about Ronan so it hasn’t been totally discreet.

I’m not sure if I believe Lovett is a Grindr person, he seems more like a casual hook up with friends kind of guy. There was a guy on his podcast a while back who made a bunch of jokes about them being fuckbuddies and I don’t think it was just jokes lol