Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl seemingly took a swipe at Taylor Swift by alleging that she would not carry out stay.
On Saturday (June 22), the band carried out at London Stadium on their Every thing Or Nothing At All UK Tour. Moments earlier than performing their hit, “Statues,” Grohl took the chance to talk to the group about The Eras Tour, which was going down at Wembley Stadium on June 21-23. Mockingly, Foo Fighters guitarist, Pat Smear, ended up attending Swift’s Friday live performance.
“I inform you, man, you don’t wish 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 properly. Only a couple. That’s as a result of we really play stay. What? Simply saying. You guys like uncooked, stay rock ‘n’ roll music, proper? You got here to the best f–king place.”
Grohl’s remark concerning 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 finally 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 concert events 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 observe, the place some artists use the unique recording of their songs along with their stay vocals accompanying it. Regardless, Swift sings stay no less than nearly all of the songs based mostly on the audio itself.
Swifties shortly got here to the “Lover” singer’s protection after Grohl’s feedback. One fan referred to as his phrases “lame and embarrassing.” Whereas a number of the feedback used memes and comedy in mild of the state of affairs, others fully referred to as Grohl out for his remarks and claimed that he was shaming a “profitable girl” and being “misogynistic.”
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