Saw that posted here the other day & thought, "it can't be that bad." Decided to finally watch it now. I refuse to believe that it isn't a bit.
I saw Laura Jane Grace's tweet about that cover and thought "no one deserves to be bullied for their music," so I watched the video out of curiosity. I got about 30 seconds in, decided maybe some light teasing is justified, and exited out real fast.
A member of a band I love supporting a racist homophobic alleged rapist and apparently now pedophile inciting civil war across America? Why would that tar my enjoyment of something?
I mean I wouldn’t enjoy associating it with that person yeah. It does kind of taint it a little knowing there’s that association now...and the person who he’s choosing to praise is beyond what any rational person would call a dickhead. Nothing can take away from the actual music but it’s preferable for him to not be spouting off crap like this.
I really don’t get what’s so hard to grasp about why it might make someone feel a bit iffy when listening to them if they happen to think about how a core member is praising Trump. I don’t want my favourite music to have any relation to that. And obviously - but when that dickhead is praising a colossal asshat with any number of human rights violations under his belt you can’t help but wonder if that person is more than ‘just a bit of a dickhead’.
Kurt Cobain's MTV Unplugged guitar sells for record-setting $6 million in auction Courtney and Francis wanted it kept in the family but it was sold anyways