Aaron Lewis worries that his music is often overshadowed by his conservative political views, which went viral this week after he questioned American support for Ukraine — and said “maybe we should listen to what Vladimir Putin is saying.”
Aaron Lewis, country musician and Staind frontman, suggests support for Ukraine is part of a conspiracy to protect a money-laundering operation.“People are very unaccepting of other people’s opinions these days, unless they match what’s been spoon-fed to them,” he told me, weeks before Russia’s president ordered his country’s deadly invasion of Ukraine.
In the latter tune, Lewis suggests that he might once have forgiven what he regards as the excesses of the liberal establishment. Now, though, “my give-a-f—’s empty,” he sings.At one point in “Am I the Only One,” you say that you’re starting to feel like your old man. Did you have the sense when you were growing up that your dad was unhappy with the way things were headed?
It was the realization that Bruce might not be the perfect representation of America — or blue-collar America, I should say. He no longer represents those without a voice. I think now he represents the voice that overpowers all the other voices. In a country that’s based on free speech, it seems like anybody who has a differing opinion from the mainstream narrative is deemed a misinformationalist.I don’t consider myself part of the Nashville machine.
I don’t go into a show thinking about what I’m gonna preach from my pulpit, if you will. I might feel moved in the moment to say something because of the energy in the room. But I realize that people don’t come to a concert to hear a dissertation.
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