| censorship before i start, allow me to state one thing: i am a pearl jam fan.
now that that's been said, let me begin.
So AT&T censored pearl jam. Big whoop. what's pitiful about the situation is that they lied and said it was a "mistake". Eddie Vedder is a pompous windbag and needs to keep his politics in his stupid liberal head. personally, i'm damn tired of hearing rock & roll imbeciles continuing to stand on their soapbox to stuff my ears with their rhetoric and talking points. being disrespectful to the commander-in-chief is not "cool", irregardless of who he/she is and what you may think about him/her. what needs to be examined here is the rock ego. what is it about a frontman that makes him or her think we give a good god d@mn about what they think about politics and world issues? I just like to hear some good music. check your ideology at the door with the rest of us. if you feel the need to, run for office, and make your political views known in the political forum. Plenty of actual SMART musicians have turned around to have politically-motivated careers, running the gamut from Ted Nugent to Sonny Bono to Senator Tom Pappas, formerly of Superdrag.
i think what's worst about the situation is the "band's" (read: vedder's) cry baby response. guess what pal, anyone can censor you. i don't hear you crying when they bleep your foul mouth off the radio. |
