Disturbedin David Draiman: ”Kadun yhä keikallamme tekstailleen fanin haukkumista”
Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Disturbedin laulaja David Draiman on antanut hiljattain Hatebreedista tutun Jamey Jastan luotsaamalle ”The Jasta” podcastille haastattelun, jossa mieheltä on kysytty maaliskuussa sattuneesta fanin haukkumisesta lavalta käsin tämän tekstatessa yhtyeen keikan aikana. David on haastattelussa kertonut yhä katuvansa tapahtunutta ja kertonut aiheesta seuraavaa:
”That whole thing, it was meant to be funny. What is your job as the frontman? To find the one person in the crowd… Like he said in ’Almost Famous’, and it was kind of like a joke in the movie: ’I find that one person in the crowd that isn’t getting off, and I get them off.’ That’s the idea. And so I saw one person that seemed detached. And I wasn’t trying to do it to make her feel horrible. I was trying to pull her in. It was meant to be funny. I did it jokingly and laughingly, and her husband was sitting there laughing while it was going on. Obviously, he wasn’t laughing afterwards. And I had no idea what she had going on; I had no clue. And you know what? In the age of social media and the Internet, things get really, really hot and heavy really quickly.”
”I still feel terrible, that if that’s what she was going through, and I made that worse for her, I feel horrible about it. And I don’t ever want to make any fan of ours feel unwelcome or estranged in any way. It was more to, like I said, try and pull her in than push her away. And, unfortunately, it ended up pushing her away. And that’s something that — to be perfectly, perfectly honest — I deeply regret.”
”Again, sometimes in today’s age, you can’t know everything, and so maybe certain tactics like that — like I said back then, and I’ll say it again now — I think are now stricken from my repertoire. Let me just be the guy up there singing and be the glorified cheerleader of sorts, and that’s fine. I don’t have to do some of the things that I’ve done in the past and have done for years, because, to be perfectly honest, we’re dealing with a day and age when people are really a lot more sensitive and they have the ability to immediately express themselves. And how could you predict? How can you deal with it? There’s no way. So it’s better to just not touch it.”
It was just one moment that got taken to Level 10, because — ah! — here’s another opportunity for the media in general to pounce. And that’s what they do; that’s what they do. Any excuse, any opportunity, any potential clickbait, here you go. Let everybody who is already a hater to begin with, give them a doorway to go in and have a field day and lose their minds over it. And you know what? Everybody that did, if you enjoyed yourselves, if it gave you five minutes of levity, of whatever, God bless. At my expense? It’s fine. I’m a big boy. I’ve got big shoulders.
”I said my apologies to the woman. I still feel bad about it, like I said. I have no intention of ever doing anything like that again. And it is what it is.
”People are gonna hate for whatever reason they can come up with, and you don’t need to give them one.
”I’d rather have people that are passionate one way or the other as opposed to being passive.”
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