• Furbag@pawb.social
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    Imagine being 55 years old and still insisting people call you “Kid” Rock.

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        Was that the one about diddling kids or was that another one? I’ve never heard that or any other song from him tbh, I just remember that he apparently sang about how he likes kids

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    16 hours ago

    My ex wife’s mom was a kid rock megafan. She had kid rock tshirts in heavy rotation, had kid rock bumper stickers on her car, and went to concerts as often as possible. She even had limited edition, rhinestone encrusted kid rock shoes. She was one of the dumbest people I’ve ever encountered and a real piece of shit person.

    Several years after divorcing my wife she still texts me asking for money (she’s a dirtbag gambling addict) despite fact I’ve ghosted her. I will never block her, because getting those texts is a sweet reminder that I’ve escaped my shitty ex’s shitty family. Fuck you Linda, you hateful garbagemonster

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      I used to be a huge Kid Rock fan.
      But in my defense, I knew nothing about him, I was 10 years old, I’m German, and I understood none of the lyrics.
      (My biggest dream was one day being able to move to the US. Yeah, that changed, too.)

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        Yeah, I liked him when he came out, but I was literally 12. In my 20’s I used to half ironically bust out Bawitaba when I was hanging with the boys as a throwback, and we used to half jokingly have it be our anthem. Then 2016 came and he started fondling Trump’s balls daily. We haven’t played it since.

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        This is so tough. My partner’s mother is a vicious manipulator and abuser, still tries to put her hands on her grown children. I love him so much and want to do my best to support him but I can’t have a relationship with her. She’s not permitted at our house because every time we’ve tried, she starts a toddler tantrum over whatever comes to mind and gets violent.

        I worry it weighs heavily on him and I wish I could stomach more interaction with her, I imagine it would make his life easier in some ways. But I’ve hit my max when it comes to abusive people. I’m a domestic abuse survivor and I simply don’t have any more space for folks who behave that way.

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          I worry it weighs heavily on him

          I’m on the other side of that equation, and while my father being a racist POS weighs a bit on me, inviting him over and dealing with that bullshit fallout would be 50x worse.

          ya’ doin’ fine

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    Kid Rock got shown up by fucking Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli. Who thefuck in the past 30 years has ever thought “I wanna hear Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli”.

    Jesusfuck, 250th year Anniversary of this country and this is the “talent” we have to show for it. Fucking Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli…

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        You don’t have to insult meth rock like that. 7horse doesn’t deserve that

        …probably. Shit, I hate that I have to do background checks on weird artists now

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      16 hours ago

      C’mon. He looks okay for someone in his mid-sixties.

      Of course that would mean a lot more if he was in his mid-sixties.

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      Yeah, Fake News anyway cause ya boi still passed out and doesn’t know he got the boot.

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    Milli Vanilli performing at a maga festival is just perfect. AFAIK the German guy is dead already, which leaves the French guy to lipsync to someone else’s singing. Or did they find someone else to complete the duo again? Maybe a Scotsman this time?

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      Sadly I think they also bowed out. I was looking forward to it being just Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli because that would match the current level of poorly-aged cringe in the US.

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      19 hours ago

      The Commodore’s and Morris Day (which if Purple Rain’s depiction of him was accurate, is no surprise) are chef’s kiss.

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        “Contrary to rumor, Morris Day and the Time will not be performing at the ‘Great American State Fair,’” he wrote. Day captioned the post, “It’s a no for me.”

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          According to this NYT article, Morris Day, Young MC, Martina McBride and the Commodores have all dropped out now, claiming to have been signed without understanding it was all a Trump thing, and the singer of the group currently using the Milli Vanilli name says they were not asked to perform at all. (No one’s heard from the original Milli Vanilli guy, Fab Morvan.)

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    One would think that he is most embarrassed that he looks like that now

    I’m 47, but I look almost identical to how I looked when I was in my mid 20s. (I realize that I am exceptionally lucky, but he’s extremely rich, and has access to plastic surgeons and such)

    He looks like shit

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        It’s worth mentioning these are not the only times Ritchie drops the n-word during my visit. It’d be easy to label this as the rantings of a drunk racist, but as with everything that Ritchie does, it’s hard to know how calculated it all is. Is he just trying to get a reaction? Is he begging to be pilloried when this story comes out so he can launch into a very public tirade against “cancel culture”? Is this all just a play for more attention? Would any of that make it less shitty?

        The strange thing is, despite his rhetoric, Ritchie’s politics aren’t uniformly regressive. He considers himself socially liberal. And the longer we argue, the more I can see the faint outlines of reasonable stances on things like immigration, government regulation of corporations, and tax policy. But here’s the thing: Nobody will ever hear any of that over the shouting, the name-calling, and all of his other attention-grabbing bullshit. I don’t think he really cares because the shouting, the name-calling, and the attention-grabbing bullshit are who he is now. It’s as if the blurry line between Kid Rock and Bob Ritchie has disappeared entirely.

        It’s textbook alcoholism. Super simple.

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        I didn’t realize it until I got into the second paragraph, but I read this when it was originally published.

        It is exactly as upsetting as when I read it originally.

        The Rolling Stone is an extraordinary publication.

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      Why do you care, and why do you think because people have money they would get plastic surgery?

      Maybe he’s actually comfortable with who he is and doesn’t care to impress American twats.

      Never thought I’d be defending the guy…

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        If he was comfortable with who he was, he would not constantly keep trying to get the approval of others, especially the Titanic pile of shit called Donald Trump and his followers.

        I care because he is an insidious tool of fascism. And that tool is being used to destroy what little is left of democracy in this nation.

        The question is: why don’t you care?

        Never thought I’d be defending the guy…

        Why are you? how could you?

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          Because good looks don’t herald good character and bad looks don’t herald bad character.

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    Is Milli Vanilli going to do his famous lip syncing impression?

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    At this rate, the headliner will be one of Iskanka’s kids hooting out “Hot Cross Buns” on an out-of-tune clarinet.