Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:There’s another element about this that we’ve only just touched on, which is that all this apparent thirst for commercial relevancy potentially serves to undermine whatever proletariat-oriented lyrics Ed is singing. I’m curious how even the committed Dark Matter lovers will find his words actually connect this time around.

it's like I've said in the past

Ed is a liberal democrat, not far left socialist; he hasn't dismantled systems, he fought Ticketmaster (and lost) and put a lot of money into charities

he probably can't spell Proletariat, and that's OK

PJ did a lot of good stuff but I never in my adult life saw them as at the forefront of musical liberation politics and protest

they were, and are, a bunch of decent (flawed) people who held pretty good values, and still are

Ed will continually call out "the rich" as long as there exist people richer than him, which I find pretty typical of people like him, and kind of amusing, but really, he DOES have better values than Trump, Musk and their ilk, so in the grand scheme of things, I don't feel like he's actively lying to me

Good post!

Ms Harmless wrote:when I see PJ championing trans issues I feel like I have dads deciding to nail their colours to the mast when my dad is too chicken shit to do it in public

it's nice that the band with the frontman who once scrawled "pro choice" on his arm during Porch can still make me feel like that

scrub12 wrote:Album isn’t even out for another 35 days or whatever and we’re getting reviews? Is that normal?

Give us another single already.

Ms Harmless wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:There’s another element about this that we’ve only just touched on, which is that all this apparent thirst for commercial relevancy potentially serves to undermine whatever proletariat-oriented lyrics Ed is singing. I’m curious how even the committed Dark Matter lovers will find his words actually connect this time around.

it's like I've said in the past

Ed is a liberal democrat, not far left socialist; he hasn't dismantled systems, he fought Ticketmaster (and lost) and put a lot of money into charities

he probably can't spell Proletariat, and that's OK

PJ did a lot of good stuff but I never in my adult life saw them as at the forefront of musical liberation politics and protest

they were, and are, a bunch of decent (flawed) people who held pretty good values, and still are

Ed will continually call out "the rich" as long as there exist people richer than him, which I find pretty typical of people like him, and kind of amusing, but really, he DOES have better values than Trump, Musk and their ilk, so in the grand scheme of things, I don't feel like he's actively lying to me

dimejinky99 wrote:Fucker takes private jets just to go the store ffs
Don’t even asks out touring it’s private jets and vip loungers all the way
Do not put your hope in him.

scrub12 wrote:Album isn’t even out for another 35 days or whatever and we’re getting reviews? Is that normal?

Give us another single already.

Ms Harmless wrote: it's like I've said in the past

Ed is a liberal democrat, not far left socialist; he hasn't dismantled systems, he fought Ticketmaster (and lost) and put a lot of money into charities

he probably can't spell Proletariat, and that's OK

PJ did a lot of good stuff but I never in my adult life saw them as at the forefront of musical liberation politics and protest

they were, and are, a bunch of decent (flawed) people who held pretty good values, and still are

Ed will continually call out "the rich" as long as there exist people richer than him, which I find pretty typical of people like him, and kind of amusing, but really, he DOES have better values than Trump, Musk and their ilk, so in the grand scheme of things, I don't feel like he's actively lying to me

Ms Harmless wrote:celebs will always disappoint you

stan no one, leave em in the dirt when you've had enough, enjoy what you enjoy critically

JK Rowling will never get a penny from me, Ed is alright