Musicians react to Roe v Wade: Kendrick Lamar, Phoebe Bridgers, Lizzo, P!nk, Taylor Swift & more
UPDATEDl The music business and many musicians have reacted strongly to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling which overturned the 50-year-old precedent affirming a women’s right to choose.
Offering a nearly universal outrage against the ruling, here is a sample of the reaction of musicians and the music industry reaction from across the web:
Kendrick Lamar closed his set at the UK’s massive Glastonberry Festival with a powerful performance of “Savior,” during which he repeatedly rapped, “Godspeed for women’s rights; they judge you, they judge Christ!” while blood poured down from his diamond-encrusted crown of thorns. Watch:
Phoebe Bridgers led the Glastonbury Festival audience in a chant of Fuck the Supreme Court: “Fuck that shit, fuck America, fuck you. All these irrelevant old motherfuckers trying to tell us to do with our fucking bodies.”
Phoebe Bridgers leads a “Fuck the Supreme Court” chant during her set at Glastonbury. pic.twitter.com/y9RGr1DZHY
Let’s be clear: if you believe the government belongs in a woman’s uterus, a gay persons business or marriage, or that racism is okay- THEN PLEASE IN THE NAME OF YOUR LORD NEVER FUCKING LISTEN TO MY MUSIC AGAIN. AND ALSO FUCK RIGHT OFF. We good?
Taylor Swift retweeted Michelle Obama and added her own displeasure.
I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are – that after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that. https://t.co/mwK561oxxl
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong told the audience that he us “renouncing” American citizenship following Roe v. Wade reversal: “”There’s just too much fucking stupid in the world to go back to that miserable fucking excuse for a country”
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