There are definitely patterns when it comes to arguing with people on Facebook who believe various right-wing conspiracy theories. Profile pics where people are holding fish comes up a lot, as do sports logos, but the thing I run into a surprising amount is various musicians. It’s made me wonder...
There are definitely patterns when it comes to arguing with people on Facebook who believe various right-wing conspiracy theories. Profile pics where people are holding fish comes up a lot, as do sports logos, but the thing I run into a surprising amount is various musicians. It’s made me wonder why so many local rockers seem to edge into QAnon and MAGA., and I have been an on-and-off music journalist for nearly fifteen.
Musicians are also just kind of extra suggestible. You’re up late at night, often drunk or high, and dealing with people who think outside the box. Add that onto an artistic temperament that makes you look at things from different angles than most of society, and you have a recipe for bypassing the credibility filters of the human brain. Every young musician I’ve ever met is out trying to have adventures.
That might explain why a lot of musicians believe in aliens and other stuff, but not really the right-wing toxic rhetoric. That, I think, has a more sinister explanation.. Yes, various genres have better diversity, but the overall trend is very white male. I don’t ever remember sharing a bill with a Black woman-fronted band, and I can count the number of them I’ve interviewed probably on one hand.
The problem is that the vast majority of them are not going anywhere. They’ll never rise above the club level. When they reach their thirties and forties, they have to make a choice. Either they can be comfortable having a modest career at the local level, or they can turn bitter and antagonistic.
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