Keeping the comma

Dear TV on the Radio,

Let me preface this by saying I’m really looking forward to your new record. I’ve enjoyed your past releases and believe the band members are smart and effective musicians.

That being said, I feel the use of the comma in the album title, Dear Science,, is asking for unnecessary trouble.

Journalists need so very little to distract them from the substance of a record. If you wear silly outfits or white shoes or have nearly any animal in your name, they’ll spend a paragraph of the review ragging you about it. Though it emphasizes it as a letter introduction, keeping the comma is begging to have people talk just about it.

Garrison