“This whole hustle is peppered with music bits meant to wed policies like forced births of rapist’s babies and minority voter suppression to song,” he said. After being asked to play a private party at the 2012 RNC, Jenkins wrote a blistering note of decline for The Huffington Post. So whoever booked the show should have known what they were getting. The rest of the set reportedly featured other moments where Jenkins tried to provoke the crowd, asking them to “raise your hand if you believe in science,” saying he “repudiates” the Republican agenda, and announcing, “You can boo all you want, but I’m the motherfuckin’ artist up here.” The highminded trolling may seem surprising to anyone who knows the band just for FM hits like “Semi-Charmed Life,” but Jenkins has expressed very grave political and artistic concerns for a long time (a 2015 Deadspin headline: “ Take Third Eye Blind as Seriously As They Take Themselves”). Third Eye Blind tonite at #RNCinCLE event: We believe in tolerance, acceptance 🙌🙌 (Followed by boos) /WPRIEMZmEp - Tina July 20, 2016 But maybe some people learned for the first time what “Jumper” is about. Is it a futile attempt? Clips on social media show his speech was received with both boos and cheers. To love this song is to take into your heart the message-it’s a clear attempt to correct against pop listeners’ penchant for ignoring a song’s words while bopping to its beat. “To love this song is to take into your heart the message and to actually have a feeling to arrive and move forward and not live your life in fear and imposing that fear on other people,” he added. The frontman Stephan Jenkins told the crowd he wished they would welcome people “like my cousins who are gay into the American fabric.” That is, until they brought out the 1997 single “Jumper,” about a gay friend of the band who killed himself. Headlining an RNC-affiliated charity event at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they committed the worst possible sin a nostalgia band can commit: playing everything but their hits.
The Spectacular Vindication of BTS Lenika Cruzīut last night in Cleveland saw a strange reassertion of the artist as unfiltered political messenger, through an act that few casual listeners associate with the words politics or, really, art: the ‘90s pop-rockers Third Eye Blind.
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