Dear Copy Editors, (the comma is intentional)

Guess what I googled. Guess what returned 287 results.

• Prefix magazine: "...TV on the Radio heads back to the future on Dear Science,. (The comma is intentional.)"
• New York Times: "On Sept. 23 TV on the Radio follows its widely praised 2006 album, “Return to Cookie Mountain,” with a magnificent third album, “Dear Science,” (the comma is part of the title)."
• Metromix LA: "Metromix has been given access to the new TV on the Radio album Dear Science, (the comma is part of the title)..."
• New York magazine: Dear Science, (the comma is, ridiculously, part of the title)
• USA Today: " TV on the Radio's follow-up to their 2006 album, Return to Cookie Mountain, will hit shelves on Sept. 23 and is called Dear Science,. (The comma is intentional.)"
• Paste: "TV on the Radio's much-anticipated Dear Science, (the comma is theirs)..."
• Pitchfork: "Dear Science, is due September 23 on Interscope and yes, the comma is indeed part of the title."
• Stereogum: "TV On The Radio's forthcoming return from Cookie Mountain, titled Dear Science, (comma included, thinking its epistolary)." [Ed. note—congrats on "epistolary" but you fucked up on "it's"]

OKAY EVERYONE LOOK CLOSELY AT THE ALBUM COVER:

THERE IS NO MOTHERFUCKING COMMA SO STOP TAKING YOUR CUE FROM THE PRESS RELEASE. YOU ARE BEING UNNECESSARILY MANIPULATED INTO POOR GRAMMATICAL CHOICES.

Comments

[Paul]

Good one! (Nice independent thinking and investigative work.)

[sv]

Yeah but what about the spine?

[scott pgwp]

If there is a comma on the spine then the copy editors should rise up and point out the inconsistency, like the anal nerds they (we) are.