Covidiots in music

Anyone admitting to COVIDiocy from this point out should be required to have a court-appointed (and HAZMAT-suited) guardian to keep them from gnawing through powerlines and swallowing handfuls of rusty screws and whatnot. Just complete soup sloshing around in those brainpans.

Hanson can get their ass kicked by the New Radicals dude any day now

major bummer about the deftones :(

Catching up on that Hanson story does actually highlight one of the good sides of rabid online stan culture, they are good at amplifying shit like that which might otherwise be largely unknown, even within the larger fan group. The fact that so many are willing to continue making it an issue and not letting them just skate on evasive answers is one nice side effect.

Bonus content - he's also anti-vaxx and a flat earther!

Antivaxx usually comes with the set but flat earth is fairly novel.

We're All Criminals - Teaser Trailer #weareallcriminals #thefreds #rightsaidfred #nolockdown #lockdowndontwork pic.twitter.com/4aoPJubnzK

— Right Said Fred (@TheFreds) November 13, 2020

fuckin pathetic

that was actually the backup title iirc

Sad - now I have to throw out all my beloved right said fred records

Alt Right Said Fred

Very good! Going to have to steal that.

god damn it I do actually use a Spanish language version of "I'm Too Sexy" in DJ sets sometimes, out it goes

I guess they're too sexy for a pandemic.

i'm.
too sexy for a mask.
too sexy for a mask.

Good to see Covidiot Jim Corr branching out into other fields

"Smartmatic and Dominion systems are built to do this very thing, built for changing the results of elections" - Sidney Powell, Attorney

The 2020 presidential election result cannot be trusted in any state using these systems. https://t.co/hn6RjaUjyx

— President-Elect Jim Corr (@Jimcorrsays) November 17, 2020

he's been a full-time conspiracy fruitloop for at least 12 years:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/corrs-guitarist-911-was-an-inside-job-28454648.html

To be fair, it can't be easy to go through your entire career being the one person in a group who no-one is interested in, who no-one pays any attention to, who people don't recognzie and are not even sure who you are and what you're doing there up on stage with the Corrs.

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