if Mr. Beast comes out strong for Palestine I will commute his sentence from "torn apart by a pack of wild dogs" to "firing squad"
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Yall ever heard of the Dixie Chicks??
I feel like someone like Taylor Swift is at a level far beyond the Dixie Chicks though, although I could be wrong I was very young in 2003. Also Taylor Swift is at this point just a pop artist whereas weren’t the Dixie Chicks very much a country music act, and relied on that country ecosystem much more? I honestly don’t know what would happen if Taylor swift said from the river to the sea but it feels like it’d be much harder to destroy her since she’s such an institution at this point, while the Dixie chicks were a just really big country act
Dixie Chicks were a crossover act - I didn't listen to country back then, but I knew "Wide Open Spaces" and their "Landslide" cover from the pop stations I listened to. There were quite a few pop-country crossovers back then - Faith Hill ("Breathless" was huge on the pop charts) and Shania Twain ("I Feel Like A Woman") are the other big ones I remember.
Yeah, they got deleted for being critical of Bush 2
Not even really critical.. it was something like they said they were not proud that he was also from texas.. while playing a show in london.
That situation was crazy. My understanding is it was mainly a way for neo fash to flex their new internet muscles. They certainly made an effective demonstration.
Maybe...if multiple very big people like Mr. Beast and Taylor Swift would do it. If it was just a single person dancing out of line they would get smeared as an anti-semite I assume and loose a lot of money (which lets be real is important to most of the people that could make a difference). If you got a handful of them ? A dozen ? It certainly could have an impact.
There’s also the inverse where a celebrity’s endorsement for Palestine could do harm to it, like Kanye. Nobody wants that reactionary asshole’s support.
Mr Beast openly supporting Palestine would be hilarious because it would finally be the thing that gets people to look into the kinda shit that passes as content for children on YouTube.
I kind of wish that was real now
Eras Tour but it’s Taylor going around the world to lecture people about the history of Israel and Palestine
And Travis Kelce is featured on a fd signifier video
Imagine if her concerts turned into left wing theory hour
Idk but it would be hilarious
Taylor Swift coming out as pro-Palestine would break a lot of people’s brains, feel like her fanbase is probably pretty split on the issue. I have much less familiarity with the Mr. Beast fanbase but my understanding is it’s mostly just extremely impressionable children. If Mr Beast told them to support Palestine I feel like they probably would. But then all those kids’ parents would come for Mr Beast.
I GAVE MY ENTIRE FORTUNE TO HAMAS
if there's any significance to what random celebrities believe it's as an indicator of what hollywood types are already talking about and so a bellwether of public opinion. if just one of them breaks with the mainstream then that's not really anything, e.g. when kanye went full antisemitic nobody took him seriously except people who already believed it
Fazil Say, world-renowned Turkish composer and pianist, got his concerts in Switzerland canceled after saying that Isreal was responsible for bombing the hospital.
now, if mentioning obvious facts gets you canceled, imagine what more "controversial" statements would do to your career.
Suicide with two shots to the back of the head type beat probably
There is zero chance that you will see TS say anything like this.
She had a very brief political arc during the Trump era which quickly ended when she realized that her overwhelmingly white conservative base wouldn’t have it.
Just goes to show how fake some people are
Once in a generation you get someone like Jane Fonda.
I've yet to see that happen in ours.