Let’s face it—we’ve spent the better part of the last two decades on this show laughing at the stupid things Dave Mustaine says. He’s usually the poster child for shooting off his mouth before engaging his brain. But hell has officially frozen over, because Mustaine just dropped a truth bomb that every single multi-millionaire rock star needs tattooed on their forehead: Stop telling your fans how to vote. Voting used to be sacred and private. Now, you’ve got self-righteous millionaires like Bruce Springsteen or tone-deaf turncoats like Kid Rock using their platforms to alienate half their audience. If you step up to a microphone and tell half of the people who bought a ticket that they're pieces of trash for their political beliefs, you aren’t a righteous activist—you’re a corporate hack destroying your own legacy. Mustaine, an independent who actually writes songs about politics, realizes his job is to entertain, not to pastor a political flock.
Meanwhile, on the flip side of the sanity coin, we have Scott Ian and Anthrax. They just dropped a new single, and right on cue, Scott is doing press rounds complaining that Donald Trump "doesn't care about the kids." It’s pathetic. Anthrax has always been the luckiest band in the Big Four—consistently outclassed in songwriting by Overkill and Exodus, but kept on life support by historical branding. Now they’re playing the celebrity activist card to get clicks for a music video that looks like it was filmed inside an asylum's laundry room. It's safe, corporate-approved rebellion, and it treats the audience like idiots.
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