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reev @sh.itjust.works

1mo ago

deadmau5 claps DJ "3lau" for DJing at Trump's inauguration afters

Here's the original post by 3lau:

And apparently he didn't even get paid and covered his own travel costs:

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apparently he didn’t even get paid and covered his own travel costs
Holy shit that's bad. Can't even try to claim the excuse of "a job is a job" and claiming there's no politics to it.
- He ends that last reply with "no more spending taxpayer dollars, that era is over!" which is a pretty good indication that there very much is politics to it (so I agree with you, but also he isn't even trying to hide it, so I don't see him trying to defend himself by pretending he doesn't support their politics)
  
  That was a good way to round out the original post, which just mentioned the “POTUS team” and pretended like it was acceptable human behavior.
- but the exposure!
  I’m sure all those right wing zealots will be lining up to give him lucrative gigs after this. After all, they’re known for their love of edm and the culture surrounding it. They certainly don’t despise everyone in attendance at the average gig (aside from the hot girls on molly they still despise but want to sexually assault)!
- The era of being paid for work is over!!
- Supposedly, none of the musicians who played at the inauguration were paid for it.
  Really tells you about the caliber of these people. Both the artists and the administration.
- Well, he was certainly paid with exposure
  
  Remember the good old days when people died of exposure? Pepperidge Farms remembers, and wishes for those days to return.

The era of wasting tax payer dollars is over? I honestly don't understand how someone is this dumb.
- Yeah, those balls are paid for by donating by sympathetic billionaires. It's the perfect opportunity to demand ridiculous fees because you know they have the money. (If you were inclined to DJ at a Nazi event).
- .... wasting taxpayer dollars on the poors is over. It needed fixing.
- He's a cuck They love being shamed and embarrassed...

I’ve never heard of 3lau, but fuck that guy. What a bootlicker.
- No one heard and no one would.
- He had a few songs I liked ~2013-14 but he was cancelled all the way back then for something, I think just being an a$$hole on Twitter if memory serves. Haven't listened to him since.

Trump received over $170 million in inaugural donations, primarily from companies and the extremely wealthy.
Yet, this artist didn’t get paid?
And the artist believes they were saving “tax payer dollars”?
And the artist seems to be catching blowback from his industry for the association?
This seems like the standard playbook for “working for Trump”, just in a 30-minute DJ-set format…
- I would be personally shocked if most of the funds weren't embezzled
- I mean this is the orange idiot we're talking about. He wouldn't have paid this guy regardless.

- Are you sure about that? Last I checked he was dead.
  
  He is the artist formerly known as mau5
  
  he got better
- You shouldn't label him as transphobic if the only issue is that he said one thing wrong in an argument 7 years ago which he apologized for and took down. Is there a pattern of that behavior?
  Every human misspeaks from time to time, and it looks like his response to feedback was handled with grace.
- He narced on another DJ for doing weed at a show
  
  Can you provide the source to the narcing, to put it into perspective?

[Some person is getting devastating flak from industry peers for association with Trump]
[...while also getting screwed by Trump]
Begun, the second Trump administration has.

Deadmau5 used to stream on twitch about his touring setup video system. He'd sit in his studio and craft wonders in TouchDesigner.
Fascinating to watch
- I never really followed him, just not my personal style, but I remember seeing clips of those streams. It was seriously impressive. Dude seemed really in his element, and had an awesome setup all around.
- Hopefully he's changed a bit since then, because he got kicked off of Twitch for making some racist comments, and he made some disparaging comments about trans women around the same time.
  But even if he hasn't, a broken clock and all that.
  
  Oh shit, didnt know that

Hold up... He didn't even get paid? Even Judas took the fucking silver.
- Judas wasted taxpayer silver. SAD that hardworking Romans had to pay out to get a JUDEAN TROUBLEMAKER put to justice.

Never heard of 3Lau and I'm not going to bother to look up what is probably shitty music to give him what he wants. But this is how morons get famous through angertainment. As they say, bad press is good press.
- The songs of his that I have in my rotation are:
  On My Mind (with Yeah Boy)
  How You Love Me (with Bright Lights)
  Tokyo (with XIRA)
  Hot Water (with Audien and Victoria Zero)
  I guess I only like his music when he's tempered with a collaborator.
  I doubt this news will change my listening habits, but it does provide more evidence I should buy and save my music instead of streaming it, so I can avoid further funding my political opposition while still appreciating their art.
  
  I have never heard of any of those songs, and I listen to a lot of electronic music.
  
  You do you.
  
  I had like 4 remixes from years ago that arent in rotation.

Judging by his own reply he's actually a Magat, not just a dumby who wanted to do something big.

Do conservatives listen to hard techno, progressive house, dubstep, or other electronica genres? Do they go to massives and drop e?
Does Lauren Boebert listen's to Sophie's Faceshopping while jogging on a treadmill?
Perhaps conservatives do consume lots of electronic music?
- Have you seen the recent demographics for Burning Man?
  
  I haven't. Please enlighten me. Has the underground been stolen by "bohemian" tech bros who want neo-feudalism?
  I'm not cool enough to attend burning ban.
- RIP Sophie.

Lol not getting paid and losing audience. Art of the Deal indeed.

Never heard of 3lau. Seems like a tool and is music sucks. But Deadmau5 is a massive cunt in his own right and the less I hear about him the better.
- Deadmau5 is a massive cunt in his own right
  Tell me more please. I wasn't aware of anything to do with him other than his music, some of which I enjoy.
  
  He's just a little transphobic and homophobic . Also he has an insane ego.
  
  He performed at a friend's venue once and was apparently a massive douchebag, ordering everyone around thinking the world revolved around him. He also publicly berated staff over silly mistakes and even publicly berated the openers.

I'm more interested in whatever drama there is between subtronics and deadmau5 tbh
- I think they meant they had to unblock 3lau to see deadmau5 comment
  
  Now that I'm more awake I see it.
- I thought it was that too but I think he means unblock 3lau.
- What the other commenters said, but if there was drama it'd probably be due to the fact that deadmau5 used to be one of the biggest assholes in EDM. He might be nicer now, but back in the day I'd never heard of someone having a pleasant interaction with him.

why waste taxpayer dollars
Translation: They offered me the gig with no pay and I was too much of a pussy to negotiate or just, y'know, say no.
- He could be promised the moon and the stars, and it's not like The Idiot would pay.

Dubstep artists go straight to the gulag

Aww damn, I liked 3lau. This is immensely disappointing, but further kudos to deadmau5 for having his principles in check.

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