I joked that having Samuel L. Jackson endorse Obama sealed the deal. Well, now I have to take that back, because Romney has acquired a new champion.
Scott Stapp, lead singer of Creed, is planning to vote for Romney.
Don’t watch the video. Jebus, but that man is stupid.
Samual L. Jackson must post a video saying “Enough is Enough. I’ve had it with these motherfucking washed-up singers on this motherfucking campaign.”
Higgs Bosons.
Who?
Hmm. Only ever had one thing from those people. I have always been a fan of music videos that did more than have some idiot film their band on a stage, and despite the religious overtones, their song, “One Last Breath”, isn’t all that bad. Same CD, includes, ironically, a song that I am sure terrorists would be singing, if someone bothered to translate it from English to the local language:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/creed/freedomfighter.html
Yeah, stupid is as stupid does, I suppose.
I’ll wait till I hear from the lead singer of Nickelback.
The star power of that guy! It’s blinding.
No, wait. it’s just that there’s no light at all by which i might see….
Isn’t that the guy who was taped getting a BJ on Kid Rock’s bus or something? That’ll pack in those values voters!
Stapp was thrown out of Christian Rock band Creed for being a fall-down drunk. If you can’t make the cut in the rarified air of Christian Rock then.. wow. The only place down is Fox and Friends.
Too bad,… I kind of liked a few of their songs, like Higher.
Excuse the stereotyping, but I’ve often found it to be over the years that some of these hard or metal rockers (not sure of Creed actually falls into that category, but that was my impression) have this ‘thing’ for right-wing ideology and politicians. ( eg, T. Nugent. Jeez he makes me puke. And I’ve been embarrassed for years for my state, since he’s a fellow native of Michigan.)
@8 kreativekaos
Creed is post-grunge – the mostly-idiotic after image of grunge (Foo Fighters is about the only decent post-grunge band I can think of, though Alter Bridge has one or two… tolerable songs – they’re the members of Creed except with Scott Stapp replaced by someone who isn’t an asshole). They’re in the same genre as Nickelback, if it’s any help.
Anyway, hard rock and metal run the gamut of the political spectrum. On the far right, you have Ted Nugent, Scott Stapp, and Dave Mustaine (the last is the guitarist and singer of Megadeth, an excellent thrash metal band with very dumb political leanings). There’s also a few bands around that have explicitly neo-Nazi ideas (often falling under the genre of black metal, and called National Socialist Black Metal [NSBM]).
On the left, you have bands like Anthrax (overall awesome lyrics – anti-hate, occasional comedy), Atheist and Death, who write songs about philosophy, environmentalism (one of Atheist’s favorite topics, despite their name), against racism, religion and sexism, and pro-choice.
A lot of bands tend to just have an overall anti-authority message, if they even have a message. More often than not, the focus is not on lyrics in metal, but on musicality – riffs, rhythms and melodies are celebrated, lyrics are secondary. However, if you pick a random metal song, it’s going to be about death. In rock, when in doubt, write a love song. In metal, when in doubt, write about death.
Oh yeah, and if this Creed endorsed someone for president, I’d probably follow them. I mean, if you can outsmart/outplan (though mostly it involves hiding very large tanks in very unlikely locations) the God of Intrigue, you probably know what you’re doing.
Seriously, Creed? Have they ever been cool &/or relevant?
This makes him the ideal representative of the Republican Party.
Egad. Okay, let me get this straight. You were all inspired by Obama and the change he promised. You are now disappointed in all of his broken promises and are therefore going to back Romney. I guess you haven’t noticed that, almost without exception, the promises that Obama broke were the ones that were actually going to change the policies that Romney endorses?
Who are you talking to, greg1466?
@6
apparently!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Stapp#Legal_troubles
mitt finally found his demographic: hypocrites!
Stapp is a fucking charmer for sure:
I mean, jesus.
Who are you talking to, greg1466?
Stapp
Mitt Romney also has Glenn Beck on his side. Yesterday Beck came out with an explanation for why Romney is behind in he polls: God put Romney behind in the polls to prove it’s a miracle when he wins.
Okay …. um… no, I can’t parse that in any way that makes sense.
Mitt Romney also has Rush Limbaugh on his side, which Limbaugh proved today by calling Obama an “affirmative action hire.”
Link.
Mitt Romney has Donald Trump on his side. Donald has this advice for Mitt, “In debate, Mitt Romney should ask Obama why autobiography states ‘born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia.'”
Yes, Mitt, please take this advice.
Pearl Jam is supporting Senator Joh Tester, a Democrat.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-rocks-montana-in-support-of-u-s-senator-20121002
In more music-mixed-with-politics news:
Idaho is solid, solid, solid Mitt Romney country. A few folks in Sun Valley will buck the trend, but Idaho is almost as Romneyland as Utah. Still betting that Hammerfest would not be Romney’s style.
White power music.
It’s not who is behind Romney so much as what is behind Romney, and that’s money. The money comes not just from Koch brothers types who think they are buying a regulation-free zone, but also from the mormon empire.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/54478720-78/church-money-lds-mall.html.csp
The LDS Church repeats that it is politically neutral, but all that money is behind getting out the mormon message that church members should “speak with one voice” when it comes to politics.
Romney thinks that 47% of the citizens of the USA are such losers that they can’t be expected to vote for him.
And now we learn that Paul Ryan thinks that only 30% of the citizens are losers.
Link to video — sorry it’s on HuffPo.
If this is quoted correctly, methinks Ryan has made a telling freudian slip….
As a German I am dumbfounded every time that the US has actual Hitler worshippers as its white power movement ( l suppose the 88 in those band names stands for HH as usual). I always imaginewhite supremacists as nationalists, and that does not compute in light of WWII.
You can’t make this stuff up, people.
@25
These people are not particularly bright, so they don’t connect the dots between being a nationalist, white supremacist… and Hitler worshiper.
However, remember America’s “melting pot” status. The largest self-reported (yeah, not really reliable, but nonetheless) ancestral white ethnic group is German, so many of us are in fact German. In turn, it is doubtless that many white supremacists are also German-American.
I’m going to wait to hear from Creed Bratton.
If Scott Stapp spent the next several years studying night and day, putting his heart and soul into the endeavor and sacrificing every spare minute of free time for the cause, he could just miss graduating from ignorant self-centered bastard to moronic rock-headed imbecile.
So Obama now has a dancing horse too?
Rip Steakface, Lynna:
Some interesting stuff at the point where music interfaces with politics, thanks. What I know about some groups is many times just a passing familiarity. Jon Bon Jovi (not sure of his specific political leanings), does seem to have some sense of civic/social responsibility, from what I’ve seen and heard. I know one of my favs, P. Jam/Eddie Vedder, is pretty progressive; Rage Against the Machine and others as well.
(One of my heroes– Tom Morello, in his alter ego as,’The Night Watchman’. For me, nothing less than inspirational.)
(Somebody’s gotta be hip to Tom Morello/The Night Watchman (?))
Tom Morello is great. An innovative guitarist, Harvard graduate and overall good guy.
Come off it PZ – this is a bit of spin. Scott Stapp didn’t say he was going to vote for Romney, he was actually voicing many of the criticisms of Obama from the left as an independent. Lot’s of people have been dissillusioned of the “hope” and “change” Obama hype (as have you), that doesn’t make people stupid.
Hope you Americans choose the better candidate again.
No it doesn’t, but one of the key things to remember about white supremacists is that being batshit insane is a prerequisite for becoming one. They also have an exceptional reality filter that allows them to believe that any piece of information that contradicts their worldview is part of the Black, Communist, Zionist, Islamic, Atheist, Feminist, ect plot to DESTROY AMERICA!!! and that only they can stop it because THEY KNOW THE TRUTH!!! and aren’t deceived by The Vast Conspiracy of people who aren’t white heterosexual Christian males.
I’m with =8)-DX, i’ve seen stupid, that was not even close.
Obama did disappoint. The fact that his rival is a flaming ball of ignorance does not change the fact that Obama is merely the “least worst” candidate.
I know, every time I’m in the US, I meet a bunch of people who, after I reveal my nationality, proudly tell me that they are “German”, and they think it’s great. The first few times I was rather puzzled because we Germans tend to hate ourselves for obvious reasons, so this kind of enthusiasm was unexpected.
But I still hope the reason why there’s always Nazi week on American TV is not because people think it’s cool!?
I get the eerie feeling that German Neonazis are less insane than their transatlantic counterparts. For the most part they merely hate the Blacks, Communists, Zionists, Muslims, Atheists and Feminists, and claim that the German empire is still extant.
I have always found it odd that some Americans will claim to be Irish, or Italian, or German when in fact they simply have a connection with those nationalities through their ancestry.
He is disappointed because Obama hasn’t kept all of his promises. Well, I am scared that Rmoney WILL keep his promises.
Hmm . . . Listen to Samuel L Jackson, or Clint Eastwood ?
Wake the Fuck Up!
Mitt Romney, you have been judged and found lacking.
You are to be sent down, forthwith.
What?!? Where? I mean, I’ve heard of shark week, but… Ohhhh, the History channel, right?
Meh.
Now, if someone would care to find out who Insane Clown Posse endorse?
Oh. You poor, poor thing.
@20 Lynna, OM
Cool, I love Pearl Jam. Had to laugh at your post #17. Too funny. But yes, Beck is right that if Romney wins the Elections, it will definitely be a miracle. Romney and Ryan are working hard to make sure that no such miracle happens.
Matt Penfold,
Well I can see how some Americans try to maintain
some cultural connection to some european place
where most of their ancestors come from, and like to identify
with it like some kind of second nationality piggybacking on their Americandom. I think its one of the great strenghts of america as an integrative idea. If you want do become say a true and accepted frenchperson or german while being russion or turk or whatever culturally, that seems virtually impossible to me to accomplish in a generation. Being e.g. a true “German” is still connected to tribal ancestry way too much for my taste. It is a real problem for the many immigrants. While the US with its racism has its own problems in this regard, I find the spirit in which one is able to identify as whatever heritagewise and still be an american on an ideological level, very neat.
@sili, twincats
I thought It’s one of the funnier quotes from that sitcom 2 1/2 men. Ymmv