Now folks, I am the type of person that despite my conservative position on political issues I try my best to separate art from the artist as much as I possibly can.
For example, there are a good number of musical acts whose political views don’t align with mine. I do my best to remind myself that views can change on a dime, and that “liberal” that I am listening to play music may be a conservative tomorrow.
I don’t go to a lot of concerts, but I do listen to a heck of a lot of music. Thanks to the internet, it is easier to listen to music than it has ever been.
One of the reasons I don’t go to concerts is that there are often times too many instances where it becomes a political rally being led by a person holding a musical instrument.
I guess I am one of those people who likes to keep everything in their own little boxes.
This is why when I hear a musical act start running off at the mouth during a live show that someone has paid good money for about stuff that has nothing to do with the music I paid them to play.
It’s one thing when it is a conservative musical act, that is almost tolerable because it is something that I know we can all agree with.
However, when it is a liberal who stops in the middle of a show to start going on about liberal issues, that’s when I pray for deafness.
One instance of this was recently when Eddie Vedder, best known as the lead singer of Pearl Jam, was performing in Las Vegas when he lost it in the middle of a show and began to go off on Kansas City Chiefs kicked Harrison Butker.
Not that long ago, Butker gave a commencement speech extolling the traditional values and roles of women as part of a proper family.
Of course, the liberals had to go to their fainting couches and begin swooning at the thought of someone saying something that they don’t agree with.
I mean, Butker wasn’t saying anything that hasn’t been said for years. All you have to do is look at the mass feminization of the United States and see how badly things have gone downhill in recent decades.
But Eddie Vedder doesn’t see that, all he sees is a conservative saying something he doesn’t agree with and decided to mess up the evening of a lot of people who just wanted to hear him perform, not pontificate.
