Evan Weiss Issues Statement on Manager

After reading so many of these statements, I’m not sure how I feel about this one. Obviously these need to be well-articulated, but this reads like legalese to me, and the intention suffers because of it.

 

Great statements - these should be the blueprints

 

I highly disagree.

"I deeply regret anything I may have said (or didn’t say) that allowed Hilary to have felt silenced or dismissed."

He told her to shut up and play nice if she wanted to keep her job. He's purposefully downplaying that in his statement. He intentionally assisted Chase in keeping her voice suppressed.

This whole statement is just one big tactical ploy to look like the nice guy and keep his career.

 

Every public release is an effort to save face/career, what else would it possibly be? If it was an apology it would be to the victim. Am I a victim? NO & I don't deserve anything from any of these people because I wasn't abused or assaulted by them. For those that have been abused, my heart cries out for you and hopefully these atrocities can be stifled once and for all. An apology letter will never bring the forgiveness it so desperately tries to achieve.

 

No...how about through any lens...the lens of a normal decent person

EDIT:

Just read through the statments from Chris and middle west management.

They have a straight up copy/pasted paragraph. Like could you be any less sincere than to plagiarize each other?

And as for Chris's "that's not how I remember it" that's a pretty lame thing to say because it basically implies she's lying. Or rather he is apologizing that she felt that way. "Sorry you felt I assaulting you even through I wasn't"

 

Why is it so hard to be a decent person? I hate that he was basically compliant to this when it involved his friend.

 

God fucking damnit.

 

no.

From now on, anything that is different or tries to provide an "explanation" to "The allegations are true. There is no excuse for what I did/didn't do. I will apologize in private to the victim and address what I did/didn't do and they will determine how this is handled or resolved based on what's best for them. I ask that my fans believe the victim and respect the victims privacy. For the foreseeable future any revenue received from any merch, album purchases, or streams will be donated to RAINN/another sexual assault org."

 

What a turd. Fuck him and his terrible statement.

Basically, this scene is going to collapse on itself under the weight of all the bullshit these shitty men are pulling. Good.

 

Idk.. He made a mistake, hes apologized.. I truly believe he won't let something like this happen again.... I'll still listen to his stuff.

 

Yeah. I'm just bummed. I want to believe he actually regrets it vs being a career move.

 

If it’s something you are concerned with you could always email him? He’s encouraging people to interact with him privately about the situation.

 

This guy is a clown.

 

I am honestly surprised how many of y'all think this was a good statement. Aside from the fact that it's incredibly disingenuous, it does nothing but further prove the prevalence of toxic masculinity in "the scene." As someone else mentioned, Evan basically says, "sorry I thought you were being a god damn drama queen about this, let's give [abuser] some space." Granted, he does apologize to the victim, but too little too late.

 

I'm very torn on posting here at all, but this isn't right. Evan has attempted to make contact with her post-her facebook post. He also had contact with her up till last year where they worked thru this all, and she told him he gave "helpful advice". I'm torn because I don't want to distract from her story, but this is spiraling. He has made himself extremely available to talk to anyone that wants to.

 

public statements are just bizarre to me anyways, but because of people on the internet they happen, and nothing is ever good sufficient

 

What a shame. Hilary is a such a sweet person.

 

i suggest you check out the Accountability in Music thread and the current discussion going on over there.

 

Not singling you out, you were just the most recent post expressing this sentiment.

I don't buy that considering this... "Evan told me to shut up and play nice if I still wanted to work for him. So that is what I did."

 

i'm not quite sure how much of private conversations i want to share, so i know this just comes off as "some guy on the internet" (but like... so do you)... i think she is manipulating the conversations and relationship she had with Evan, but I'm not sure why.

 

Is there anyone that can release a statement that doesn't look like it was written by a robot trained by a lawyer. For once I'd like to see a statement that came from the heart. You never see, "I'm a fucking asshole and should have never stood by my manager when I knew it was wrong." Or "this shit needs to fucking stop because people like my manager are predators that need to be put in the dark and locked away." I do not understand these bullshit statements. "I have a lot to think on and hope to one day better myself and be the person I want to be. I'm sorry if my actions have harmed anyone." Get the fuck outta here you sound like a press release.

 

oh come of the fuck on

 

he may need to be careful of getting a defamation law suit or worse. These artists aren't millionares that can afford a law suits, I bet Evan barely makes a living playing music, his bands arn't really that big. He has to play it safe, that's the world we live in. I just emailed him about getting more information, i suggest everyone who still has a problem with this do the same thing and then make the decision.

 

he has emails, conversations, and attempted calls with Hilary. He isn't make a statement to save face... he is honestly blindsided by it because up till now he has had a very different understanding of it