Finally someone criticize fascist Trump. Our government, using it’s CIA hand did their part in silencing MAGA stupids on facebook, twitter and reddit. Good that we use artists to send a message too. /s
What are you on about?
Finally, someome has the balls to criticize Trump and his stupid followers…
Not a single ounce of self awareness in that group… Won’t be long till these Maga Snowflakes are screaming for safe spaces away from the liberal agender.
Facts don’t care about your feelings snowflake! Here you can have the participation trophies you give us when we were young, I think you need them more.
The American dream is killing me
*Green Day does Green Day thing*
White Supremacist MAGAts:
oH My GoD ThEy sHoUlDnT Be PolitIcaL like ThaT!
Hey maga people, remember when you were really concerned about free speech and people being canceled for “just voicing their opinion”?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Green Day took the stage during ABC’s broadcast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest and used the opportunity to call out Trump supporters by changing the lyrics to their 2004 hit “American Idiot.”
Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong drew cheers from the live audience when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance.
Many of them took to Twitter to bash the band and accuse them of being part of the “propaganda machine.” “Sad, they are irrelevant and get a chance to play and use it poorly.
During the band’s tour back in 2017, Armstrong would shout “Fuck you, Trump!” before launching into “American Idiot.”
“There are a lot of people in the quote, unquote red states that get a big sense of relief when I say something like ‘Fuck you, Trump.’ That’s because they’re in the minority where they live and at our shows they get this sort of release,” he continued.
Dick Clark Productions, which produces New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between PMC and Eldrige.
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A *meltdown” SLAM?! Such a rare type of slam!
I hate that I’ve gotten used to reading “slam” in the titles. It’s stupid, but it’s new standard.
…when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance. The original line is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.”
So you were all okay with “redneck”? Are the rednecks offended by being associated with MAGA? What would be the reaction if some country singer sang “I’m not part of the woke agenda”?
Ugh. Ya know… the reality is that news outlets, Rolling Stone in this case, need to generate attention just as much as the outraged Trump supporters. I have to wonder if us normies are suckers. Why do we fall prey to the need to comment on something so irrelevant?
Edit: So, I just listened to and read the lyrics for American Idiot (it’s been a while and I wasn’t ever all that into Green Day). I hadn’t realized how on-point my comment was. It’s literally about the media manipulating us. Man, what a great song and meta article.
Don’t wanna be an American idiot
Don’t want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck AmericaWelcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow
For that’s enough to argueWell, maybe I’m the removed, America
I’m not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoiaYeah, I’ve found that the language is the same on both sides. It’s stupid to have sides.
Unfortunately, most people have to pick a side to survive. Gay people, trans people, ethnic minorities, poor people, etc. Must all fight against fascism just to protect their very existence.
That’s okay. They can still sing “Born in the USA” because that song is super-patriotic and not critical of America at all.
Oh, wait…
Man, I liked all these bands before they got all political!
Rage Against the Washing Machine
I still don’t get it. Rage was always political and they never hid it. I can still remember on their first website having a detailed FAQ on exactly what type of communist each band member identified with. Also they were putting stuff out in the CD era when you would literally get a slip of paper that showed you the lyrics. So it couldn’t have been that they didn’t know what the songs were about.
What part was confusing? You can have all the debates you want about communism and about music’s role in politics but there is no debate at all exactly what these guys stood for. It was a known product. How was anyone for a second confused that a band screaming about class warfare is leftwing? Those twats must have been lying about how they felt betrayed. It is “I am shocked shocked there is gambling going on here” on roids.
when you would literally get a slip of paper that showed you the lyrics.
Insert “If Those Kids Could Read, They’d Be Very Upset” meme here.
What “Machine” did you think he was raging against? The dishwasher?
Who are you quoting?
“As far as i’m concerned you and Pink are completely done.”
I know the article calls this out too but WHAT!? I mean, good for this guy for having diverse tastes in music, but Pink went full pop basically in her second album. (If I recall correctly, it was a long time ago and I’m not a huge Pink fan). But Pink has never hidden her tendency towards activism.
And not to gatekeep, I get that people enjoy music for different reasons, but it just seems odd that someone would actually be a fan of Rage Against the Machine and expect anything less. And again, the guy acknowledges Rage’s political activist nature in the article, but now it’s apparently too much since he no longer agrees with their message. That sure sounds like “cancel culture” to me.
Yes, the tendency of right wingers to define themselves as oppressed victims seems to add to them regularly identifying with left perspectives for all the wrong reasons.
Another very weird example if this was a young female nationalist and xenophobe from Germany, who unironically covered the radical anti colonialist Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley and The Wailers, in a cringe af YouTube video. Before anyone asks, I sadly was not able to find it anymore, otherwise I would have posted a link for your amusement of course.
Then there was also the teenage anti-vaxxer, who held a speech at a protest organized by the Querdenker movement (german localization of QAnon) and seriously compared herself to Anne Frank during WWII, because she illegally held her birthday party in secret during the covid lockdown. You can´t make this shit up …
Did they expect Green Day to be pro-fascism?
He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun But he don’t know what it means
That was Nirvana, you know, the band that Green Day wanted to be at the start.
You’re of the opinion that the Bay-area pop-punk band wanted to be like the PNW grunge band?
Kerplunk and Bleach sound nothing alike, I think I’m misunderstanding what you meant?
Ya, not even the same genre. If you don’t like the music just say that instead of comparing them to someone else that you do like
They didn’t even have the courage to say they don’t like Green Day (I’m not a huge fan myself), all they did was show their knowledge of music is paltry.
I don’t listen to Green Day, so I don’t know about any of their albums’ specifics. After Nirvana ended I saw Green Day first on a late night talk show, and they came out and played the same style of music that Nirvana made popular, with a similar stage presence and style. That’s when I assumed they wanted to be Nirvana.
Later they changed into modern Green Day that is completely different than what they were at the start.
What composed the “style of music” that you feel Nirvana made popular that Green Day was imitating? Music with guitars and distortion?
Specific chord structures and rhythms actually. If you knew much about guitar you could see the similarities in their early stuff and Nirvana’s popular songs. Overall the same punk-grunge style basically.
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“I don’t actually know anything about music but I saw a talk show once in the 90s”
lol
Yeah he’s just an old dude that trolls, but he’s an actual troll, so it’s not like he’s doing it to be a dink for karma, he’s just really insufferable as a person. He migrated over from Reddit where he did the same thing there.
The amount of hours this guy has invested across Lemmy and Reddit is insane, so, at some point, you just have to respect the dedication and interact with him at your leisure. At least, that’s what I do.
Really, you must be very interested in my comments then. What’s my Reddit handle, since you know so much?
You must really not like all the things that I’m right about, have you seen a therapist about your cognitive dissonance problems?
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Tangential point but I do wonder how much of an effect Taylor Swift will have on voter turnout this year.
MAGA already tried to cancel her and failed when she encouraged people to vote. Imagine if she actually endorsed a candidate.
Imagine if she was a candidate
You know what… Why not? It’s no worse than MAGAts voting for Trump because “all the current politicians are corrupt, so let’s vote for a non politician” and Taylor has an arguably better business acumen than Trump. As far as I know, she hasn’t bankrupted any of her own businesses nor has she defrauded a charity bearing her name.
But I question her ability to make the difficult life or death decisions associated with the presidency. Armed conflict is a simple reality of the world today.
So who would be her running mate?
Maybe Tom Morello?
Dolly Parton could shave off a good number of southern votes from the Republicans, not even joking.
When idiots realize American Idiot is actually about them.
Ya. Its laughable. It reminds me of this Nirvana song: In Bloom.
Also when the same crowd got super butthurt at Rage Against The Machine because they “got political”. What the fuck sort of machine did those idiots think the band is raging against…?
Critical thinking definitely isn’t a strong suit of the right wing base voters.
