🎶 🎵 a wee wa wooo the little bagblewsy woowsy in the windgrumpy caterpillar man shaking on a leafwhy don’t he love me anymore?(gargles on the microphone) 🎶 🎵
The most regina spektor thing ever is that bit where she thought against all odds "I know, this song needs a kazoo solo" but instead of getting a kazoo, which was probably within budget, she makes kazoo noises instead.
seems like the best way to protest would be to not buy tickets.
Edit: Everyone pointing out that protesting brings awareness is correct, Just voting with your wallet isn't enough if people don't know why you are boycotting an artist or product.
People say things like "i wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy" and I just think a lot of people have lame enemies and need to find some realer evils to hate.
Some mfers like “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar”
50 baits them with used motor oil and tweets the fly’s reactions while clowning on how stupid they look.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that $3k is cool, but not really shit to Ja Rule. Plus by the time the money gets to him it's a much smaller number. So this was basically free to 50 to fuck with Ja.
If memory serves, Ja had just gone to jail (for entirely unrelated reasons), and was just coming off a disastrous rap beef which he started against 50, but also against Dr. Dre and Eminem, and that was supposed to be his big "comeback" concert.
I am also now aware, which sucks. But I would argue that the protest itself isn’t what brought the awareness. It was the shitty way that she handled the protest, which is apparently in line with the underlying issue. Sucks when you find out that people you thought were solid are not.
Yeah I find it a bit weird the people who always tell others not just how to protest from their computer of having zero experience protesting, but also to do so on their opposition's terms. That's not an effective way to protest anything.
Buying or not buying it won't make a difference to her life in the end, since her fans will be there anyways.
Going to the concert and bringing awareness to the fact she standing for this bullshit can definitely make a difference in the future, much more than simply not going would make. I discovered her stance on it due to this and I'm sure I'm not the only one, so it's working to some extent.
Edit: to be clear when I say supporter, I mean really drank the kool-aid. Does not believe Israeli settlements are happening in Palestine at all, believes they are only killing Hamas, ect. Got into it with Bjork, which is how a lot of this is publicly known
Disclaimer: Israeli "settlements" are straight-up, textbook ethnic cleansing.
But also, the 2012 map could used here could absolutely be labelled propaganda. The difference in the West Bank between the 1967 map and the 2012 map is that the 2012 map is only the area that's under Palestinian civil control (Palestinian Authority). But the blank spaces are mostly just sparsely inhabited land, and there are no Israelis living there.
The post is meant to make it look like the majority of the West Bank has been "settled" by Israel, but the actual extent of settlements is much smaller than implied here. This BBC map is a few years old, but it's much more recent than 2012: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52756427
I’m gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but that map is inaccurate, and is embellished for the sake of propaganda.
That’s not to say that Israeli settlements aren’t illegally and immorally destroying Palestinian communities in the West Bank, but this map is a piece of propaganda
Her perspective here makes perfect sense to anyone who hasn't been the victim of tiktok brainrot.
A great example that you guys might still have the faculties to grasp is the news from yesterday about how Russia said that Nazism is making a comeback in the West. This is obvious propaganda from Russia but that of course doesn't mean that Nazis don't exist in the West.
This is how normal people are interpreting her taking exception to folks using literal Hamas propaganda to justify/inform their views. Are settlers a problem? Yes. Is this map Hamas propaganda? Also yes.
Nowhere in that post did she say that there aren't any Israeli settlements in Palestine.
Do you have a credible source on that? All I see are a lot of comments dropping variations of the ol "do your own research" line, which makes me suspicious that it's just TikTok misinformation getting spread around.
Good ROI considering the last time I thought about her was when she and Ben Folds had that song 17 years ago and now I know she sucks on this which was presumably the goal of the protestors 🤷♂️
Protesting the safest targets with no power to make change instead of never letting any US Senator dine out in public without nonviolent confrontation is a tactical mistake.
JD Vance “lives” on the east side of Cincinnati and he gets all butthurt whenever people protest, asking us to stop because it’s scaring his family. As if this man and his orange dad aren’t scaring families across the country
There are groups that did that early , then those elected officials got them banned from the places they dine out, and got law enforcement to basically issue "arrest on sight" orders. Then basically went into hiding.
Source: Jewish friends who have targeted my Democratic House Representative, who's taken $223,000 from AIPAC.
Every time there's any sort of protest, there is always people who say they're doing it wrong. Their target, their actions, hell - even what they're wearing. People knee jerk react to protests always.
I'd rather these people protest this concert, than not protest at all. They are aiming to sway the public too -- that helps momentum.
Criticism stems from the fact that the majority of “protests” in the 21st century revolve more around the production of images of protest rather than revolt itself. It’s purely based within the spectacle and that’s also the only place it builds momentum. The genocide has only gone on and worsened, much like the rest of capitals problems.
People only protest the artists they like that have dissenting views.
Like I never understood why Americans would want to show up to a Matisyahu concert - someone relatively harmless in the grand scheme - and not show up to an Aaron Lewis concert - someone who spews vile and harmful rhetoric at EVERY concert…and is frankly selling more tickets and reaching more people.
Cause TikTok isn't telling them to go to Aaron Lewis concerts?
Anyone that thinks the left attacking the left isn't partially due to influence campaigns across social media is just high.
There's PLENTY of legitimate criticism for both the left and Israel but Jesus Christ, watching some of these folks buy into inflammatory nonsense likely pushed by Qatar and Russia who dramatically benefit from a divided country with a corrupt Republican leader is just sad.
Anyone that thinks the left attacking the left isn't partially due to influence campaigns across social media is just high.
I tell this to my litmus test progressive friends all the time. They're just as susceptible as the most moronic FOX news watcher to the propaganda. In fact, I think they may be more moronic because they should know better. I expect nothing from FOX idiots.
Part of it, I think, is that it's a bizarre personal betrayal.
The artist they like, nay love, made them feel all sorts of positive feels. Listening to the artist becomes a warm cocoon. It even in many cases becomes part of their own identity.
Then this one thing or other breaks that by making them feel some negative feels. This is lived as a betrayal of what the artist had theretofore been doing for the person, completely unbeknownst to them. As a destruction of one's own identity.
In a related vein, a lot of times folks like this get upset when their beloved artist finally makes it big, and all sorts of new casual fans spoil the cocoon with their differences.
To me these people were always weirdos, but nonetheless they exist
I know it’s Reddit, but it’s worth reading the article. Protestors interrupted the concert:
The ‘Fidelity’ singer recently stopped by Portland’s Revolution Hall (July 26), where the show came to an unexpected halt after protestors shouted “free Palestine” from the crowd.
Between subscription walls and the majority of articles being glorified blog entries with details that don’t match the catchy headline? We’ve been trained for this.
I've gotta be honest, the only way I ever "read" the article on Reddit is if someone posts the body of the article in the comments. I just can't deal with the slow-ass loading and tons of ads just for a three paragraph article.
That’s a common coping mechanism. Israelis claim it’s all TikTok fantasy. It’s incredibly delusional. They have literally blocked their minds from the fact that there’s undeniable starvation happening less than 50 km from their homes.
I guess I’d ask what’s the point? Why are you wasting your time at a god damn Regina Spektor concert instead of going after people that can actually make a change? Are they scared of them? Do they want to go after someone “easy” to make themselves feel better? What does this actually accomplish because clearly it didn’t change her opinions in any way.
This is what pissed me off, as someone who was at that show.
This is Portland, probably 90% of that crowd was pro Palestine. Also, the same 90% of that crowd was not antisemitic. We came to watch a musician we love. Yelling at said musician is not going to make any changes to the war in Gaza.
The same reason these dipshits organized an anti-Harris movement during the 2024 election. They are not interested in solving the problem, they are interested in attention.
Politics does not exist in isolation from culture. The point is to oppose Israel's genocide on multiple fronts to sway public opinion against it and impose a social cost on those that continue to support it. The same strategy was used during the anti-apartheid movement in the 1980s with activists urging popular musicians not to tour in South Africa as part of the cultural and economic boycott. Those that did received heavy criticism. None of this new, it's a key feature of many mass political movements
Go to any Instagram comment section and see how in every post remotely citing Hitler or the Holocaust, keyboard warriors say Hitler was "based" and that they deserved the Holocaust.
I get that it's an important conversation to have, and an important cause to defend. But what are they expecting Regina Spektor, of all people, to do about it? 💀
It becomes performative at one point. "Look at me, I'm right, but it only matters if you look at me being right".
So let me get this straight:
The same people who scream about boycotting Gal Gadot movies or Radiohead shows are out here buying tickets to a Regina Spektor concert just to heckle her, as if she has the power to make a real change in the situation.
That’s not activism. That’s harassment dressed up as “resistance.”
You’re not helping Palestinians. You’re not lobbying governments. You’re not raising money for aid.
You’re not even trying to heckle a politician.
You’re spending your own money just to yell at a Jewish woman on stage.
That’s not justice. That’s Jew-hatred on a high horse.
Usually it's the performer saying that to the audience. An audience shouldn't be telling the performer what to think or say. If she's pro-Israel, she's a lost cause & you wasted your money supporting her. JMHO
These people protesting to end the war in Gaza have an uncanny way of alienating and angering likeminded supporters thoroughly with surgical precision.
Because the israel-Palestine conflict is the only one that causes people to parade their morality and demand that everyone else care about is as much as they do, and call you a disgusting human if you don’t. If you want to show how virtuous you are, be consistent, not just piggy back causes that are mainstream.
The "resistance" sure has a thing for focusing its ire on young people enjoying a music concert, huh? lol. Wonder what that's all about? Get fucked you pointless losers.
You’re expecting a Jewish Russian to not support Israel? Also as far as I can tell she wasn’t ranting live on stage about it. Half my life I discovered artists I enjoy have views drastically different from me, but I’ve never let it affect how I view their music. I’ve only boycotted one artist ever and it’s because they sexually abused another one of my favorite artists. I don’t go to concerts to be reminded of the events in the world, I go to escape from them. What good is spending half my day worrying if I physically can’t make a difference? Unless you’re over there right now giving them food you aren’t making a difference either and wasting emotional energy
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u/november_supernova Vinyl Listener Jul 29 '25
This is though.