![]() ![]() ![]() “Fuck you!” the prog musician railed, before labelling the beleaguered Zuckerberg a “prick”. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had the temerity, he said, the outside gall to email and politely ask if the group would consider licensing their mega-hit ‘Another Brick In The Wall Pt. Then footage of Roger Waters emerged online, the Pink Floyd founder railing against social media. He’s been afforded opportunities new, younger musicians can’t tap into – nor too, can so many of the Black American musicians whose work underpins his own. Forced to cancel his 2020 tour – wiping out a year’s work he tells us – the Oracle Films video was timed to arrive alongside the announcement of his next batch of tour dates, incorporating huge Stateside venues. Yet there’s an extraordinary sense of privilege in this iconic figure claiming to be sidelined. First it was Eric Clapton, giving a bizarre, lengthy, rambling interview to Oracle Films – proponents of the “Censored Truth” – in which he discussed his experience with the COVID vaccine.Ī 76 year old who endured lengthy struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, Eric Clapton is perhaps more fragile than most, more susceptible to the allure of what he himself terms “alternative facts” peddled on social media. Which makes it all the more ludicrous to continue to see identitarians, notably the LGBT movement, continue to claim they are ‘fighting oppression’ when their mantras are echoed by every cultural institution, media outlet and corporate entity in the west, while anyone who utters a whimper of dissent is swiftly cancelled.So why are so many of rock’s original proponents still so damn angry? Each day seems to bring a new vox pop, with some old, grizzled hit-maker left red-faced and furious by the world they’ve found themselves in. They are beyond cancellation.įor any up and coming celebrity, or even one who is at the top of their game, to question ‘generation woke’ is career suicide. Once again, this only tends to happen with older celebrities who have already passed their peak of fame and entered icon status. While Daltrey’s comments may not be mind-blowing, any celebrity speaking out against the mob that has cannibalized culture is something to be applauded. Go back to newsprint, go back to word of mouth and start to read books again,” he said. ![]() It’s almost like, now we should turn the whole thing off. “It’s just getting harder to disseminate the truth. There’s no doubt about that,” he said.ĭaltrey also slammed the negative impact that social media has had on the world, saying it has undermined truth. “Especially when you’ve lived through the periods of a life that we’ve had the privilege to. The singer noted how he was lucky to have lived through an era where freedom of speech was encouraged, not silenced. I mean, anyone who’s lived a life and you see what they’re doing, you just know that it’s a route to nowhere,” he added. “It’s terrifying, the miserable world they’re going to create for themselves. “I don’t know, we might get somewhere because it’s becoming so absurd now with AI, all the tricks it can do, and the woke generation,” said Daltrey. The iconic frontman made the comments during a recent appearance on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music 1 podcast. The Who legend Roger Daltrey says the ‘woke’ generation is creating a miserable world that serves to stifle the kind of creative freedom he enjoyed in the 60s. ![]()
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