Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl seemingly took a swipe at Taylor Swift by alleging that she does not carry out dwell.
On Saturday (June 22), the band carried out at London Stadium on their All the things Or Nothing At All UK Tour. Moments earlier than performing their hit, “Statues,” Grohl took the chance to talk to the gang about The Eras Tour, which was happening at Wembley Stadium on June 21-23. Satirically, Foo Fighters guitarist, Pat Smear, ended up attending Swift’s Friday live performance.
“I let you know, man, you don’t need to undergo the wrath of Taylor Swift,” he started. “So we prefer to name our tour the ‘Errors Tour.’ We’ve had quite a lot of eras, and quite a lot of fucking errors as nicely. Only a couple. That’s as a result of we really play dwell. What? Simply saying. You guys like uncooked, dwell rock ‘n’ roll music, proper? You got here to the suitable f–king place.”
Grohl’s remark in regards to the “wrath” of Swift might have been in regard to his daughter, Violet, who was 17 on the time, being harassed by Swifties after criticizing Swift for flying personal as an alternative of public after her carbon footprint went viral. Violet ultimately deactivated her social media account due to the backlash and threats.
This public remark additionally got here after a number of movies of Swift performing live shows on her The Eras Tour went viral for followers believing that she lip-syncs throughout components of her 3-hour live performance to “protect her voice.” Others theorized that it might simply be a backing monitor, the place some artists use the unique recording of their songs along with their dwell vocals accompanying it. Regardless, Swift sings dwell at the very least the vast majority of the songs primarily based on the audio itself.
Swifties rapidly got here to the “Lover” singer’s protection after Grohl’s feedback. One fan known as his phrases “lame and embarrassing.” Whereas among the feedback used memes and comedy in mild of the state of affairs, others utterly known as Grohl out for his remarks and claimed that he was shaming a “profitable girl” and being “misogynistic.”
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