{"id":1196894,"date":"2022-01-07T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196894"},"modified":"2022-01-07T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T17:35:02","slug":"meet-the-rockstar-who-risked-it-all-to-stand-against-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-rockstar-who-risked-it-all-to-stand-against-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Rockstar Who Risked It All To Stand Against Cancel Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeet-the-rockstar-who-risked-it-all-to-stand-against-cancel-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196894&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rocker Tommy Vext doesn\u2019t think, or vote, like most of his peers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s pro-Trump, anti-BLM-inspired riots and uneasy about aggressive pandemic lockdowns. And he\u2019s paid the price for sharing those views.<\/p>\n<p>Lawsuits. Band break ups. Big Tech oppression.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He refuses to stay silent, nor let naysayers disconnect him from his fans. Vext, formerly of Bad Wolves, just wrapped up a stint with the God Bless the Outlaws tour alongside country rapper Struggle Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>The tour hit venues that don\u2019t enforce vaccine mandate rules, and that\u2019s no accident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re making a stand,\u201d says Vext, who successfully beat back COVID-19 twice in recent months. He\u2019s \u201cdisgusted\u201d by states like New York that are putting fire fighters and First Responders alike on unpaid leave for not getting the jab.<\/p>\n<p>Vext\u2019s political thinking led to his departure from the band he co-founded.<\/p>\n<p>Both Vext and Bad Wolves recently agreed to an amicable divorce late last month. The singer sued his former band earlier this year, claiming it forced him out due to his political opinions. The band, known for Vext\u2019s hard-charging lead vocals and an exhilarating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ\">cover<\/a> of The Cranberries\u2019 \u201cZombie,\u201d counter-sued, charging him with copyright infringement, unjust enrichment and breach of contract, according to Billboard. The latter suit also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/rock\/9652753\/bad-wolves-settle-lawsuits-singer-tommy-vext\/\">alleged<\/a> Vext tried to sabotage the band\u2019s upcoming release, recorded without him on lead vocals.<\/p>\n<p>Vext, his voice a bit weary from the road, says he never had a problem with his former bandmates\u2019 politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were all friends \u2026 those guys were all liberal, a few being vehemently liberal,\u201d he says. Rock journalists, he says, lean the same way and threatened to ignore his music for daring to support President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a new feeling. Vext says he\u2019s routinely targeted by major platforms for his political views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been shadow banned on Facebook and Instagram,\u201d he says, adding he steers mostly clear of Twitter due to its incendiary nature.<\/p>\n<p>The rocker got clean 13 years ago, and he says the press previously captured both that element of his life as well as his philanthropic work. That includes Bad Wolves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/8461993\/dolores-oriordan-children-bad-wolves-zombie-cover-donation\/\">steering<\/a> $250,000 from their Cranberries\u2019 cover \u2014 which amassed nearly half a billion plays on YouTube \u2014 to the children of the group\u2019s late singer, Dolores O\u2019Riordan.<\/p>\n<p>The tone of his media coverage soured in recent months, though.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I came out against \u2018The Narrative,\u2019 they started to flag my content,\u201d he says of Big Tech. \u201cThe mainstream rock media came after me, [too]\u2026 a relentless, never-ending campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latter, he says, includes domestic abuse charges leveled by ex-girlfriends Nicole Arbour, a YouTube comic, and personal trainer Whitney Johns, against him.<\/p>\n<p>Vext denies both charges.<\/p>\n<p>The former hardcore punk singer grew up poor, a condition which filters how he sees both America and the current political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom was a crackhead who abandoned me \u2026 I got sober in my late 20s and turned my life around,\u201d he says, forever grateful to live in a country that allows for second chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the countries where it doesn\u2019t matter what you\u2019re born into, just work hard and also learn and ask questions and take personal responsibility for your losses,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can become anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It helps that a touring rocker sees other nations, especially lands where Communism reigns supreme. \u201cThere\u2019s a lack of opportunity, a glass ceiling of government over people\u2019s heads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not in his home country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called the American dream for a reason,\u201d adds Vext, who says he considered himself a Democrat until he \u201cwoke up\u201d roughly seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Vext remains proud of his Bad Wolves legacy, especially the way the group\u2019s songs connected with fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hit songs are all autobiographical,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible for my experiences not to pour out into the lyrics.\u201d Fans routinely approach him to share their personal stories and how they overlap with his songs. Those moments are therapeutic for the singer as well as his fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s healing to have people say, \u2018me too,\u2019\u201d he says of his confessional songs.<\/p>\n<p>Vext knows firsthand how hard it can be to buck the mainstream. His travails have taught him the importance of having a solid group of friends at his back, for starters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lost a lot of people in my life, but I gained a lot, too,\u201d he says. \u201cThe actual quality of the people in my life is so different. I\u2019ve replaced all the leeches and the takers with people who bring stuff to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking a stand has another vital side effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll attract other people of integrity to you,\u201d he says. He wouldn\u2019t mind having more support, though, and not just for his sake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the things that happened to me wouldn\u2019t have happened if other big bands said what I said,\u201d he says of his musical colleagues. It\u2019s not just confined to music, though. He notes how outspoken stars like Dave Chappelle, Nicki Minaj and Nets star Kyrie Irving make an impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocker Tommy Vext doesn\u2019t think, or vote, like most of his peers.\u00a0 He\u2019s pro-Trump, anti-BLM-inspired riots and uneasy about aggressive pandemic lockdowns. And he\u2019s paid the price for sharing those views. Lawsuits. Band break ups. Big Tech oppression.\u00a0 He refuses to stay silent, nor let naysayers disconnect him from his fans. Vext, formerly of Bad &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}