People want Metallica to stop being hypocrites and sellouts. Their early songs were anti war, anti corruption, and now they’re like “we don’t want to take sides”
What they said is "we're not going to lecture you." Not everybody goes to a concert to be pumped into a frenzy about the current world political situation.
I get the impression they prefer to let the music do the talking instead of the kind of empty lip service and land acknowledgements that interrupt the set. Idk I prefer this myself, I'm here for a concert not a campaign rally or a uni lecture.
Curious…. Why not just play the music then? Why make the comment no one asked for or needed?
What’s worse? Speaking up for those who can’t? Or complaining about those who are speaking up?
Isn’t it a jab more at people who decide they wanna communicate about injustice?
If he didn’t wanna make the jab he could have said “you know where we stand by listening to the music”
Making the jab invites the criticisms (because he is being critical himself) doesn’t it?
Ehhh I think a single sentence is pretty different from "LOUD POLITICAL STATEMENT".... (wait for applause, please clap Jeb Bush energy) rinse and repeat for several minutes
Not really, because one is an actual political opinion/stance. Tge other is a clarification that they aren't going to be doing that exact thing, because this is about your entertainment and not about pushing the band's opinions on fans needlessly.
Like I'm genuinely curious are you stupid? Or do you just hate people who don't fellate you after you say the most bog standard political statement?
No, that's not my energy, fuck off and stop putting words in my mouth lol. I've very explicitly said music is different from soapboxing, you'd have realized that 3 comments ago if you could fucking read.
And WAT it would be lame as fuck if he started talking about his guitar for a while mid-set, but they are actually pro performers and they know people wouldn't really care to see that. That example proves my point you actual muppet lmao.
And yeah I wouldn't care at all if they did so elsewhere, like anywhere else in their massive sphere of influence and tiertiery media and interviews. Not mid-set at a concert where we are paying out the nose per-minute to hear them play. If it means I hear one more song then yeah no shit I don't want to hear them yapping for a few minutes.
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u/armaghetto 12h ago
People want Metallica to stop being hypocrites and sellouts. Their early songs were anti war, anti corruption, and now they’re like “we don’t want to take sides”