Covidiots in music

Oh absolutely, there are no shortage of reasons to hate Trapt. They really went all in on the hate this year.

Some people now thinking Dan Snaith is a covidiot judging from the replies

I feel so sorry for Margaret Keenan - the 91 year old woman who got the vaccine today. Completely unaware she's just been sterilised by Bill Gates.

— Caribou (@caribouband) December 8, 2020

Some people now thinking Dan Snaith is a covidiot judging from the replies

🐦[I feel so sorry for Margaret Keenan - the 91 year old woman who got the vaccine today. Completely unaware she’s just been sterilised by Bill Gates.
— Caribou (@caribouband) December 8, 2020🕸]🐦

Yeah, that dry humor does not work at all in the age of rabid online idiots.

how do you not get that's a joke

*I* get that it's a joke. But I can also see how someone who doesn't really know Snaith well at all could see that tweet and think it was straight-faced while scrolling through dozens of other batshit, MAGA driven conspiracy theories that litter that hellscape.

Some rabid online idiot, you said it.

oh sorry I meant "how does one not get," not you, obv.

No worries, I just meant to say that I think this dry humor rarely scans as intended on Twitter in 2020.

Good job I'm not on Twitter I think.

Oh yes, definitely a good job. No matter how much time I spend curating my list of follows, this stuff gets amplified by every corner and feels inescapable.

Trey Songz seems to have said reasonable things in the past, but apparently made a bad decision recently.

touchin', coughin', fuckin', can't make up my mind

Pete Rock.

Vaccine shit is real stupid. How you giving vaccine to people who arent sick??? 💉🚫

— PETEROCK.COM (@PeteRock) December 10, 2020

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo goddamn

He doesn't know the difference between a vaccine and a medicine?

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/002/395/magnets_c.jpg

lol

Varg Vikernes

SHOCKAH

Never mind, he's 'only' an anti-vaxxer.

please don't sully the good name of varg

It's cool, I said Varg Vikernes, not Louis Cachet.

Lol good name of Varg. Top ten assholes in music list, if not top five or three

hmm now I'm wondering

GG
Varg
The Nuge

??

Graeme Garden?

John Phillips

Didn’t realize the Clapton/Van M. track had such hot lyrics:

”Do you wanna be a free man/ Or do you wanna be a slave?/ Do you wanna wear these chains/ Until you’re lying in the grave?” Clapton sings.

Other lyrics include: “Magna Carta, Bill of Rights/ The constitution, what’s it worth?/ You know they’re gonna grind us down, ah/ Until it really hurts/ Is this a sovereign nation/ Or just a police state?/ You better look out, people/ Before it gets too late.”

The song ends with Clapton singing, “Dick Turpin wore a mask too,” referring to the 18th century highwayman who wore a mask to conceal his identity while committing crimes.

Counterpoint: Spiderman wears a mask, too

Dick Turpin didn't cover his breathing holes, and did one accidental killing and one on purpose. Spider-Man is fully masked, and has only ever accidentally killed: his girlfriend (snapping her neck because as a genius-level scientist, he forgot that physics exist); and his wife (cancered up by filling her with radioactive jizz).

Oh god - let’s not do the whole Gwen Stacy retcon forensics deep dive again so soon!! ;)

I honestly don't remember doing it before! But okay:

If Clapton had been wearing a mask, he might not have had enough puff to throw his son out that window.

Connor Clapton can rest assured that he'll never have to worry about seeing his dad in Heaven

Suprised Sir Van managed to avoid mentioning the Battle of the Boyne in there.

(xp) Tiers In Heaven

Dick Turpin didn't cover his breathing holes

I don't think any of the common images of Turpin in action are in any way based in reality, but I guess it would have to be Ballsmandible Turpin.

Iggy not a covidiot...

Good morning! A little surprise track from #IggyPop this morning. #newmusicmondayhttps://t.co/zzd9QNXhL8

— Iggy Pop (@IggyPop) December 21, 2020

hmm now I'm wondering

GG
Varg
The Nuge

??

― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, December 16, 2020 6:21 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean...Nuge is a dickhead but

Nuge is a child molester (but so's Iggy... and apparently everyone who stayed in Los Angeles from 1970-1974 except for Keith Richards somehow)

SAVAGE

did Clapton come up with the title lmao https://t.co/pO2c2e5J5a

— Matthew Elliot (@matttbastard) December 22, 2020

Earlier this year, Morrison referred to preventive measures as pseudoscience, and "Stand and Deliver" marks his fourth anti-lockdown track after "Born to Be Free", "As I Walked Out," and "No More Lockdown." This latest, though, is the first to infect another Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.

Van Morrison, whose hits date all the way back to 1964 with the band Them, has written controversial lyrics in the past. His 2005 tune "They Sold Me Out" is one of a series of anti-music industry songs in in repertoire, but repeated references to "shekels" raised some eyebrows at the time. Clapton, during his years of a well-documented drug addiction, went on a notorious racist rant while onstage in 1976, for which he has since apologized.https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/12/eric-clapton-and-van-morrison-release-their-anti-mask-anthem"> https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/12/eric-clapton-and-van-morrison-release-their-anti-mask-anthem

Clapton's apology was terrible IIRC, like "I had so many black friends [what was I doing]!!"

Whoever this guy is: https://variety.com/2020/music/news/rapper-lil-pump-anti-mask-banned-jetblue-airline-tantrum-1234876095/

Can’t get COVID if you’re barred out.

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/berlin-terri-nunn-apologizes-mar-a-lago-new-years-eve-1234878605/

...Terri Nunn of the group Berlin has issued an apology for the controversial gig, saying she didn’t know it would be perceived as taking a political stand, and expressing shock at the lack of COVID protocols at the resort.

“I am truly sorry I performed at Mar-a-Lago and would not have done so if I’d known what I learned while I was there,” Nunn wrote.... “My goal in performing was not to support a political party. I see now that that’s not the way it appeared and I am apologetic for that as well.”

Taylor Dayne was there, too(!)

Dayne, for her part, had tweeted and then deleted her own statement earlier. Screenshots show that Dayne wrote, “I’m saddened by all this. I have a 30-year career that (includes) many diverse friendships. And I try to stay non political and non judgmental and not preach. I sing from my heart purely and from Source (sic). I wish for all to be who they need to be… and find their way.”

either incredibly naive or (more likely) completely disingenuous

that vaguely passive aggressive, new agey tone that Taylor Dayne has adopted (she's far from the only one) there is one of the most infuriating things to me

That Nunn apology reads more sincere, but what size rock would you need to be living under to get hired for a gig at Mar-A-Lago in 2020/1 and not consider the potential political implication before you got there?

is there footage of the maskless Mar-a-Lago crowd roaring along ironically wirh “Take My Breath Away”?