Covidiots in music

Noel Gallagher
Aphex Twin
Ian Brown.

Who else?

Mutya Buena

Jim Corr

Madonna

Rev Horton Heat

oh yeah in that case add Smashmouth

M.I.A.

Wiz Khalifa

Great White

Tbf there are different tiers of covidiocy. Each is characterized by a particular fixation: face masks, vaccines, 5G, microchips, etc.

Sammy Hagar

and jim corr is right at the top of the tree

Renaud

Julian Cope

not really

he might well be, list is depressing enough already

M.I.A.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul), Thursday, September 17, 2020 10:39 PM (fifteen minutes ago)

Really?

Technically she's an anti-vaxxer, but she revealed it in reaction to the pandemic. Counts in my book.

Julian Cope? Really? That one makes me sad

Brown and Gallagher have always been fucking chavs, although the former has written some great songs at least

Vanilla Ice

M.I.A. is just the worst. She practically wanted a parade for getting an MBE, which seemed to nullify everything she once appeared to stand for

Tech N9ne

Kaitlyn Arelia Smith is anti-vaxx, so she should possibly go here, too

I’m just gonna say Kid Rock

Tom MacDonald

Mike Stock

Tbf there are different tiers of covidiocy. Each is characterized by a particular fixation: face masks, vaccines, 5G, microchips, etc.

― hey, trust the fungus! (pomenitul),

Aphex Twin said we were a police state. I think that puts him ahead of noel gallagher refusing to wear a mask. It puts him in the ian brown category,

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72357

He was always a low level 9/11 truther but this was still a kick in the nuts

https://www.coronavirusworldnews.com/coronavirus-uk-the-thes-matt-johnson-spreads-bill-gates-covid-19-conspiracy-theory/

All weed-heads aren't they? Not judging just saying.

It's not easy to think outside of the hotbox.

xxxp RDJ also posted a bunch of covid truther links to his soundcloud when he uploaded that batch of tracks (I assumed that he uploaded them mainly to draw eyes to the links). Think he later removed the links.

what did Julian Cope do?

this tweet suggests he's being responsible but it's old

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Julian Cope has – with great sadness – felt obliged to cancel the remaining five dates of his Winter 2020 tour. pic.twitter.com/o4q6EWumdn

— Julian Cope (@JulianHCope) March 16, 2020

Cope hasn't done anything. A poster decided to post his name as a 'joke'

To no great surprise, Ted Nugent

"covidiots"? ay ay ay

Nobody's mentioned Van Morrison yet?

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/van-morrison-fight-the-covid-19-pseudoscience-and-speak-up-1.4338343

Chuck D was posting conspiracy-flavored stuff a few months back; don’t know what his current line is.

Wiley

Yes Ivan, let’s bring back all those audiences that you clearly relish playing for any other time

Van Morrison has always had a few screws loose, unfortunately

Timely:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainment-arts-54194498"> https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/entertainment-arts-54194498

Sir Van Morrison has accused the government of "taking our freedom" in three new songs that protest against the coronavirus lockdown.

In the lyrics, he claims scientists are "making up crooked facts" to justify measures that "enslave" the population.

"The new normal, is not normal," he sings. "We were born to be free".

Oops, fucked up that link:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54194498"> https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54194498

Boomers gonna boomer

got nothing to do with being a boomer

yeah, almost all of these people are Generation X, not boomers

The list has a lot of people who have been known to be kind of gullible fools for some time, or people who generally have a reputation for ~not being very bright~ (Gallagher and Brown in particular) - but I've been struggling with my inner fanboy over the RDJ thing for some time, since he resurfaced around the time of Syro and started up with various truther discourse - so the covid stuff is not a surprise, but it's still v v depressing.

There are people where it kinda goes with their schtick, but with RDJ, I really wanna grab him by the shoulders and go "you are actually *smarter* than this?" He's bright, he's sciencey, he was educated, in that he got halfway to a degree in electrical engineering, this man is not a fool?

But I guess that's sometimes the thing with conspiracy thinking, that conspiracies can *be* especially flattering to people who have experienced being brighter than most people around them, (not hard in the music industry!) and this is one of those stereotypes I hate reinforcing, but Autists, especially ones with Aspergers, like RDJ, in particular are very susceptible to it - that if you are constantly noticing weird shit that neurotypicals just *don't*, that it leaves you very susceptible to believing that you have access to special truths that neurotypicals don't or can't see.

And for a conspiracy brainloop to really take hold, it's like it has to piggyback on something you already care a LOT about. (Like how anti-trans ideology can canibalise both feminist activism AND virulently anti-feminist activism, because these are issues that people care about very deeply!)

RDJ has always had a very serious anti-authoritarian streak. And this idea that 'Britain is a police state' - the thing is, there are many ways in which Britain already *is* very like a police state. All the jokes about 'rainy fascism island' are getting at something - the abuse of Stop and Search, the suppression of protest, the absolute impunity of the police to murder citizens with no repercussions, the wholesale deportation of the Windrush generation, etc. etc. etc. - but his established anti-authoritarian special interest doesn't seem to fixate on those genuine abuses. It leaps sideways onto something tangential which affects him (he can't leave his house) and instead of landing on something with a basis in fact (the Tory government is absolutely mishandling the epidemic) it leaps into 'being quarantined = oh noes here is the police state'.

Sorry to bring politics into ILM, if this was intended to just be a list thread. 'Why do people get caught up in weird conspiracy theories' is one of my long-term special interests, for obvious reasons.

you'd think maybe the group of absolute foolish poltroons (who most of you'd cross a road to avoid) who make up th C-19 truther gang might make RJD pause for thought somewhat? I find it unforgivable that ppl who are otherwise silent about genuine human rights abuses committed by the British state are jumping on the Icke bandwagon ffs!

Wiley's rep is so done in now he could become the official PIE spokesperson and it wouldn't be newsworthy!

Van Morrison already was affiliated with PIE as evidenced in his passive pedophilia song, Cypress Avenue!

maybe one for the PaedIdiots in Music thread where lots of legends of the delta blues who otherwise are treated with upmost reverence get brutally cancelled!

Is wealth and age the main factor (for musicians)?

some esoteric cover art for you to decipher:

https://cdn-resident-music.com/image/cache/data/max/mar21/evan-500x500.jpg

I'd actually like to hear that album — Alexander Hawkins on piano, John Edwards on bass, Paul Lytton on drums — and obviously the music (which was recorded in 2019) won't reflect any of Parker's views, even though the track titles are apparently all taken from Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. But nope.

More info here.

xpost

Not Big Boi :(

It wasn't straight covidiocy, I think it was more pseudo-Trumpist "stop the steal" disinfo or something but the one that hit me in the gut was Nightmares on Wax.

It was in a tweet sometime mid-last year -- I can't find a link now, I assume it's been deleted.

Joey Bada$$: https://www.dummymag.com/news/joey-bada-social-distancing-inhumane/

Oh the humanity

Nena has now gone over fully to the dark side, supporting the German anti-lockdown, coronavirus-skeptic 'Querdenker' movement and endorsing music by conspiracy theorist Xavier Naidoo.

https://www.rnd.de/promis/nena-solidarisiert-sich-mit-querdenkern-und-postet-verschworungssong-von-xavier-naidoo-D75Z6WYCPNA55GV3PPQRI2SLYA.html

That is 99 Luftballons Nena right?

Yup, that's the one. Nena had dropped hints before about her coronavirus skepticism, but this is much more clearcut.

99 Red Bull loons

...actually that doesn't work in context but I like it, so in it stays

Thanks for the heads up on the new Parker record, unperson. Sprang for that one immediately, not going to let his obnoxious views get between me and the music.

Is there a non-music version of this thread?

As we approach the covid singularity we find that Ian Brown and Ben Garrisson are in fact the same entity

my May tour of Ireland is cancelled as both our islands are currently medical experimental prison camps and we are being held hostage by GOVT for big pharma

— Ian Brown (@ianbrown) March 24, 2021

If I was you , I wouldn’t get vaccinated I would wear a mask & take vitamins

— juicy j (@therealjuicyj) March 26, 2021

is that being an idiot or is that shade

ha ha

you say no to COVID, juicy j can’t

Dammit now I have Bandz stuck in my head.

I was going to say oh ffs not now juicy j, but he's deleted it!

Ted Nugent tests positive for coronavirus after calling pandemic a ‘scam’ https://t.co/3CFZ37XqY3

— Independent Arts (@IndyArts) April 20, 2021

Is it wrong for me to wish fuckers like Nugent would drop dead and leave folks like Adam Schlesinger and John Prine to live.

It would take a saint not to wish death on Nugent.

Or a devil.

Come and Take Him!

Wang Dang Sweet Quarantang

lol

As mentioned elsewhere, we have two wishes left.

Not a musician but still a covidiot.

Take back your freedom and civil liberties. They belong to you.#londonprotest#NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere

— Gillian McKeith (@GillianMcKeith) April 24, 2021

Right Said Fred have already appeared upthread but FFS:

This 👇 See you there https://t.co/bJ3t1yGCID

— Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) April 20, 2021

... Laurence Fox, Lee Hurst, Ian Brown, some guy called Zuby...

Was a bit worried there when I saw the Lotus Eaters Twitter handle but it's not the band

Yes, I had to check that one!

I'm too sexy for my shot

Presumably these fuckwits never consider the awful company they keep

Deeply Derpy when they post a tweet

Matthew Marsden, they're really pulling out all the big names

Matthew Marsden, they're really pulling out all the big names

― boxedjoy

Former Destiny's Child collaborator though.

the heart's lone desire is to... not mask up

not a covidiot, just a multimillionaire tory who resents having to pay his musicians and road crew during a pandemic

Aww how sweet of @NoelGallagher to pay his crew and band mates despite all the gig cancellations... pic.twitter.com/ZqY7nRoZ1r

— Absolute Radio (@absoluteradio) April 29, 2021

Also a covidiot, though: https://www.spin.com/2020/09/noel-gallagher-refuses-to-wear-a-mask-in-public-liberties-being-taken-away/

‘you don’t need a pandemic, just the fear of one to get everyone to take the vaccine’ utopia (uk) channel 4 in....wait for it....2013 🤔 a great way to rehab big pharma post oxycontin 🤔and keep everyone isolated and wanting more ‘security’🤔 drc

— Dylan Carlson (@drcarlsonalbion) April 29, 2021

I like Dylan Carlson a lot, I did a phoner with him once and he was more than amiable. But… yeah, disappointing.

Honestly I think his habit of signing his fucking tweets is the worst revelation here.

also those smileys

Least surprising covidiot yet

quoting an outrageously daft channel 4 dystopian fiction series for truth!

not a covidiot, just a multimillionaire tory

delete thread and restart

Jesse Rae :(

"I stood as MSP Candidate in 2007 tae warn the Borders that ye were going tae lose a' yer bank Branches.
In 2021 I have tae tell ye something worse. ALL SCOTTISH YOUNG BORDERERS DAE NOT TAKE ANY MANMADE VACCINE INVENTED BY SCIENTISTS .... FOR A MANMADE DISEASE INVENTED BY SCIENTISTS IN CHINA. IF YER UNDER 60 and in guid health...AND DEFINATELY NOT CHILDREN" thank ye

https://www.facebook.com/jesse.rae.56/posts/5500520146688733?__cft__[0]=AZUEa8zxmGTmMOfCrT0b5_MN_sB8ChDQUPNfqhGy_ndPWZZzJnSkp7Ml9a2wwi8yrX9yIbQocsrXc0kqQrNink2IhJsyVHGxWah9DIXBn7973wv0xRZFzakbYJBjUPxr2Twuodc2niRThlSo9TSYQk7-&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Someone pointed me to Charles Hayward's FB page which is full of conspiracy / Great Reset / anti-lockdown bollocks, honestly I blame weed for half of this

Oof. That one smarts.

did nuge die yet

if not can it be expedited