Accountability in Music • Page 581

Those dudes suck bad.

 

if we too were Walnut Creek edgelords then maybe we'd see the humor I guess idk

 

I didn’t know about the following until today. Safe to say, I felt sick.

(trigger warning: statutory rape)

“More contemporary rock stars like Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers also bragged about committing statutory rape with no repercussions.

In his 2005 autobiography, Scar Tissue, Kiedis recounts his sexual relationship with a 14-year-old Catholic school girl. Kiedis was 23 years old at the time; and after learning of her age, he proceeded to have sex with her again.

He writes:

“The next day we drove to Baton Rouge, and of course, she came with us. After we got offstage, she came up to me and said, ‘I have something to tell you. My father’s the chief of police and the entire state of Louisiana is looking for me because I’ve gone missing. Oh, and besides that, I’m only fourteen.’ I wasn’t incredibly scared, because in my somewhat deluded mind, I knew that if she told the chief of police she was in love with me, he wasn’t going to have me taken out to a field and shot, but I did want to get her the hell back home right away. So we had sex one more time.”

Their relationship inspired Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 1985 song “Catholic School Girls Rule”, which has been played live by the band as recently by as 2007.”

 

Reading something like this really throws into sharp focus just how recently this was 10000% socially acceptable. Which I guess means we're having SOME improvement, at least? () But holy hell, this is so bad.

 

Not to mention Parker is in a side project with none other than Harry fucking Corrigan

 

Why I’m Leaving Mumford & Sons

Turns out the answer is "I'm a Nazi POS" and not "I only know one banjo line"

 

He's a Nazi?

 

He’s a big fan of Andy Ngo, so you can connect some dots

 

He's leaving because he tweeted about loving an Andy Ngo book and got backlash & is tired of having to censor himself while being a member of the band

 

Is that the dude that posts lots of videos of leftist protests?

 

“I’ve had plenty of abuse over the years. I’m a banjo player after all. But this was another level. “

 

His bread and butter is as a far right “journalist” who goes to protests and rallies to get sound bites from liberals and leftists that will be edited in such a way to scare conservatives into thinking that the left and antifa are coming for America’s throat

 

deceptively edited leftist protests, yes

 

Seems more like a shitty right-wing provocateur troll than an actual Nazi, but I can understand why he'd be disliked.

 

Is this real lmao

 

Hahaha yes

 

That line in particular honestly sounds like straight out of an SNL skit

 

trying to inject humour into explaining why he supported a fascist, classic

 

Big "dumb guy who thinks they're intellectual" energy

 

Disappointed in Oso Oso and Sydney, but I guess when TFB suppresses the situation people aren't aware. Although the survivor has been very vocal on Twitter so…

 

Also for what it's worth I have seen the discourse around Proper. deciding to tour with Tiny Moving Parts and know that they have been or are still in discussions with the survivor involved in that situation. I hope they can do the right thing. I think they will. Either a decision is reached with the survivor's blessing or they act against condimentcutie's wishes, which is indefensible.

 

I mean when you're hanging out with Patriot Prayer folks who throw up the Nazi salutes and yell "Die Muslims" among other shit and you defend them then yeah I'm comfortable with the Nazi label

 

Wasn't aware of this part

 

Really disappointed in oso oso right now

 

It's really shocking how few people are aware of Anthony Kiedis just straight up admitting to statutory in his book.