Covidiots in music

He's got into a Twitter row with Jedward.

G’wan leave the whole country “breathless” from Covid because of your idiotic behaviour @Jimcorrsays 🖕🏼 pic.twitter.com/AptBunlTeY

— JEDWARD (@planetjedward) August 22, 2020

So are the heroic twins of Jedward the last remaining bulwark agains total covidiocy in music on the “British” Isles? Didn’t they also take on Ian Brown just recently?

Total legends.

Hi Ian you discredited yourself with your backward views and non logical actions👍🏻

— JEDWARD (@planetjedward) September 14, 2020

Ian Brown is retweeting MIA retweeting antivaxx garbage

Do we have an accepted collective noun yet? A confederacy of covidiots?

wait do i have to like jedward now? this year has been hard enough as it is

A ventilation of covidiots.

i'm sure this will be excellent listening

Music Legends Eric Clapton, Van Morrison Team for Anti-Lockdown Single ‘Stand and Deliver’ https://t.co/5RKtBYEb9x

— Variety (@Variety) November 27, 2020

"we can't make money selling overpric

Lol...

Failure.

"We can't make money selling overpriced concert tickets to idiot nostalgia-hungry Boomers, we demand to be given the right to have them die seeing us play shitty sets in overlarge venues!"

It's a bit of a shame that proceeds go to an organisation supporting musicians who've gotten into financial hardships due to covid, which is totally valid. It'd be more fun to roast if it was actually going to some anti-lockdown group.

yeah i guess its good that the funds will go to musicians in need. still, its a shame that the single generating the proceeds has a message aimed at prolonging the deadly conditions that make the lockdowns necessary - like releasing an anti-condom single to raise money for AIDS prevention.

You might die you might die you might die...

does dave grohl still deny aids btw

clapton’s involvement pretty much makes this fascist anyway

For oblique reasons I was looking up Crispian Mills and he broke a 3 year silence on twitter to protest that lockdown infringed civil liberties.

Who would have thought it?

3 year silence on Twitter, 20 year silence on the charts.

poshidiots in music

does dave grohl still deny aids btw

The Foo Fighters played a benefit organised by AIDS-denier bassist Nate Mendel in early 2000, and put up a wake up sheeple page on their website, which they deleted in 2002. The "won't get tested, or get her kids tested" HIV+ mom who was Mendel's connection to the movement died in 2008, of AIDS. Dave Grohl has since supported Elton John's AIDS Foundation.

Taylor Hawkins played a Vaccines Cause Autism benefit in 2013, though.

I didn't know Mendel was the source of that connection. super weird bummer

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/apr/21/i-felt-deeply-apologetic-how-one-mans-bucket-list-trip-put-a-community-at-risk-of-covid-19

I missed this, Supergrass put on a reunion show in August??? Is Gaz a Covidiot????

No it was back in March before lockdown.

This was a quick trip – leaving Melbourne on Thursday 5 March, concert on 7 March, a visit to the Tate gallery on Sunday, back home Tuesday night.

completely o_0 at that Foo Fighters AIDS page

In related news, this is the one that shook me up, been into her records from the early 80s on--musical persona is (so far!) quite different than this--from Rolling Jazz:

Presumably she's been this way for a while, but singer Cassandra Wilson unfurled her MAGA flag on Twitter yesterday in a big way. So much so that I saw someone refer to her as "Qassandra Wilson" and laughed before I did the search and saw that...yep, she's got the brain worms all right.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, November 22, 2020 8:16 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

what I don't get about that kind of thing, is why, after these four years, would you reveal that NOW?

― rob, Sunday, November 22, 2020 9:43 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

As with Sidney Powell, now is when the legit crazies are coming out of the woodwork.

― pomenitul, Sunday, November 22, 2020 9:46 AM

I just had a quick listen to the new Captain Sensible project, Sensible Gray Cells - "Get Back Into The World", and I couldn't quite tell if he's a covidiot or just mistrusting of the government in general.

Looking up an interview it seems to be the former: "but let’s have the old normal back please. Not this dystopian nonsense they’re trying to get us used to."

Yeah, see I saw that but it still could be the "don't trust the government" as opposed to "let's pretend there's no danger".

The album cover kinda seems like a visual joke that makes the title ironic, though scrolling through his twitter I'm not too certain of that.

Maybe I'm just biased against Sensible. Watching "Don't You Wish That We Were Dead" I thought his bemusement was telling when having to confront that basically everyone who's ever met him thinks he's a dick.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/30/rita-ora-throws-birthday-party-london-restaurant-covid-lockdown

Rita Rita Rita. Saturday was Albanian Independence Day too!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/30/enemies-of-the-sheeple-why-do-pop-stars-fall-for-conspiracy-theories

30+ people at Rita's Party, £10k fine per head for breaking lockdown - you do the math! That's £3m or more for Serco's shareholders, after they get awarded the vaccine rollout and hire some teenagers to jab some needles around in an Asda car park somewhere.

Er, hate to be the math pedant here, but that's £300,000 fine, not £3m. Still.

wish I had £10k so I could say "fuck the rules" and it not be a significant issue to me.

I mean, I wouldn't because I'm not an utter arsehole, but it's good to see the different-rules-for-rich-people play out again

Seriously, like a lot of other fines and fiscal punishments, it needs to be on a sliding scale. I'm sure the rich would find ways around that too though.

I did say you do the math, not me.

Maths.

sometime-user DL's guardian piece linked above is a hurried half-baked nothing, really -- a dozen ilxors could have written a better i think

Some musicians are "autodidacts, attracted to the juicy secret knowledge that you won’t get from the mainstream media, while lacking the analytical tools necessary to sort the wheat from the chaff."

he may not exactly mean this implication (a good sub shd have challenged him on it!) but the "mainstream media" also largely lacks "the analytical tools necessary to sort the wheat from the chaff", or at any rate too often doesn't bother to use it. musicians as a counter-media thrive bcz the institution they're countering -- wich they have dozens of valid reasons to despise -- does its job fitfully at best, and this is a far more pertinent reason for the rise of the problem than e.g. weed or stubbornness ffs lol

I think the mainstream media has been good about delivering & reinforcing accurate COVID information, though.

ok then

Surely the important question is how Rita Ora has got any money

Also I note briefly in passing that sensible DL managed a dig at the hated left

tbf, if he'd just written "a lot of musicians are thick as shit" I don't think he would have made the minimum wordcount

it would still have required "as are a lot of journalists" tagged on

feel like Immortal Technique might have some interesting "opinions" on COVID.

but i haven't looked yet

I mean, I'd definitely be up for an "everyone is a fukken idiot, why do you think musicians would be exceptions" rant

Yeah - does the % of musicians noted ITT exceed the % of covidiots in society at large?

think the mainstream media has been good about delivering & reinforcing accurate COVID information, though.

Are there any parts of the mainstream UK media that you think have done a lesser job than others?