System Of A Down frontman wrote to Imagine Dragons members asking them not to perform in Azerbaijan, but was ignored
Serj Tankian did not mince words to criticize the imagine Dragons. Even joining artists like Brian Eno, Thurston Moore It is Roger Waters to try to prevent a performance in Azerbaijan, the singer of System of a Down was ignored.
Tankian wrote a letter asking the imagine Dragons not to perform in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, due to the country’s authoritarian government. Continuing the performance, for the singer, would be a way of “cleaning the image of the dictatorial regime” of Ilham Aliyev. Serj he also took to social media to make the request to the Las Vegas group, but was unsuccessful.
Upon discovering that he was not heard, the frontman of System of a Down made a series of criticisms of members of the imagine Dragons – formed by Dan Reynolds, Ben McKee It is Wayne Sermon. “Look, I’m not a judge for people to say where bands should or shouldn’t play”, he pondered in an interview with Metal Hammer (via NME). “I understand that they’re doing this for money, that they’re artists, they’re entertaining and everything.”
But when there’s a government about to commit ethnic cleansing, when Azerbaijan was starving 120 THOUSAND Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh and keeping out food or medicine… You know, as an artist, if I found out about this, there’s no way I could to have gone and done that show. But some artists do. And I don’t know what to say about these artists. I don’t respect them as human beings. F*ck their art, they’re not good human beings as far as I’m concerned.
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“If you are so blind to justice that you are going to put on a show in a country that is illegally starving another country, according to the International Court of Justice, according to what Amnesty International is saying, according to what Human Rights Watch is saying… If you still go and play in this country, I don’t know what to say about you as a human being,” he added.
“I don’t even care about your music. If you’re a bad human being, I don’t give a shit. So, that’s how I feel about it. I don’t have any respect for these guys.”
Source: Rollingstone
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