{"id":490885,"date":"2019-10-04T06:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=894792"},"modified":"2019-10-04T06:56:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:56:27","slug":"krist-novoselic-defends-nickelback-from-trump-leave-grunge-bands-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/krist-novoselic-defends-nickelback-from-trump-leave-grunge-bands-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Krist Novoselic Defends Nickelback from Trump: \u2018Leave Grunge Bands Alone!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nirvana<\/a> bassist Krist Novoselic<\/a> defended the honor of Nickelback<\/a> and grunge bands everywhere on Twitter Thursday.<\/p>\n

The musician\u2019s tweet was prompted by a surreal series of events in which President Donald Trump<\/a> tweeted out a meme about Joe Biden featuring the Nickelback song \u201cPhotograph,\u201d and either the band, or their label Warner Bros., filed a copyright complaint to have the clip taken down. The Internet, unsurprisingly, had a field day with the takedown as opinions on Nickelback effectively split down party lines.<\/p>\n

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USA politics have gone bonkers. It’s all about thumbs-a blazing-on Twitter while policy takes a back seat. $22,000,000,000,000 in debt, yet Fed’s deficit spend and promise even more $$$ to voters. To POTUS and congress showboats: Please leave Grunge bands alone! https:\/\/t.co\/W6WiPL2Ol6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Krist Novoseli\u0107 (@KristNovoselic) October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cUSA politics have gone bonkers,\u201d Novoselic tweeted. \u201cIt\u2019s all about thumbs-a blazing-on Twitter while policy takes a back seat. $22,000,000,000,000 in debt, yet Fed\u2019s deficit spend and promise even more $$$ to voters. To POTUS and congress showboats: Please leave Grunge bands alone!\u201d<\/p>\n

The day before, Novoselic had also responded to a months-old Fox News clip<\/a> that was making the rounds again \u2014 apparently the last time Nickelback was a key talking point in American politics was as recently as March. Back then, in the House of Representatives, Wisconsin Democrat Mark Pocan and Illinois Republican Rodney Davis debated the merits<\/a> of Nickelback, which led to Fox News talking head Chris Stirewalt comparing the band to socialism on an episode of The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It was a joke, a lame and old joke, but a joke nonetheless. Still, when Novoselic saw the clip, he tweeted, \u201cWho is this jerk? Nickelback is a is power pop rock band & I love them!!!! They are Canadian BTW. The USA can work well because of the uneasy marriage between socialism and capitalism here. There is push and pull \u2014 so be weary of those on the fringe advocating one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Who is this jerk? Nickelback is a is power pop rock band & I love them!!!! They are Canadian BTW. The USA can work well because of the uneasy marriage between socialism and capitalism here. There is push and pull\u2014so be weary of those on the fringe advocating one way or another. https:\/\/t.co\/lG1WAMiFyW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Krist Novoseli\u0107 (@KristNovoselic) October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic defended the honor of Nickelback and grunge bands everywhere on Twitter Thursday. The musician\u2019s tweet was prompted by a surreal series of events in which President Donald Trump tweeted out a meme about Joe Biden featuring the Nickelback song \u201cPhotograph,\u201d and either the band, or their label Warner Bros., filed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 20:18:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}