Is that the big announcement people on this forum have been speculating about?
Meat Loaf can vote for and support whoever he likes - as long as he doesn't try to impose his political views on me. As for his appearance at that event: I'm sorry but it made me cringe. If he had at least delivered a good show... The skilled actor and experienced stage artist Meat Loaf appeared to be absent. Instead there was a strange speech and bad singing. In fact it sounded more like screaming to me and it even seemed as if he was trying to drown out everybody else during
America The Beautiful. That's "endorsement"? The videos I saw appeared kind of bizarre to me, like some satire on politics and showbiz.
In my opinion, there is one important thing missing (aside from convincing words and impressive vocals) - it's credibility. It's not that long ago that Meat Loaf claimed that he was "independent", appeared at the GLAAD Awards and said things like this:
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I don't get involved with politics [...] I don't get involved with them in my stage show. I don't get up and preach like some acts do. Entertainment is not about that.
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http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-...meat-loaf.html)
Now he's campaigning for that presidential candidate all of a sudden, go figure...
I'm not in favor of artists publicly supporting politicians or telling you who to vote for but at least other artists have managed to take a firm stand most of the time - no matter if it's Springsteen or Nugent, "left" or "right". Compared to those people, Meat Loaf appears to be more like a swaying, erratically roaming ship of which you don't really know what its home port is and that's apparently steered by a captain who can't make up his mind. That's one of the reasons why I can't take his "political" statements seriously.
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Originally Posted by lorenzoduke
Meat Loaf [...] thinks we should argue with our own family and friends [...]
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I'd never argue with friends and relatives and sacrifice my personal relationships to damn politics just because some "celebrity" tells me to. The Berlin Wall came down because people were sick and tired of being told what to think, what to say and what kind of "politics" to support. I'm sceptical of people who try to railroad
their "political" beliefs in the way that Meat Loaf obviously encourages.