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Moby has joined the chorus of musicians who’ve responded to Donald Trump’s win in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
On Wednesday (Nov. 6), the producer and activist posted a video of himself outside in New York City, addressing the camera by saying “So obviously the election results are terrible and America and Americans have clearly made a really bad decision, but the question is what do we do now? And for me, and I hope for you as well, there’s no point in making ourselves feel worse.”
While many people across the nation are reeling over Trump’s win, Moby advised that “It’s not going to benefit anybody to doomscroll and watch the news and constantly just spiral down into depression… So it might sound like a New Age cliché, but we have to practice self care, we have to eat well and exercise and spend time with people we love and help animals and do anything that keeps us sane and healthy.”
He captioned the clip with a note saying that he’s “bot sure if this helps in any way, but I’m trying to figure out how to respond to what happened. Please take care of yourselves.”
Moby is one of the very few politically vocal electronic artists, with the scene — and particularly the American artists and promoters in it — staying largely silent on the issue in the lead-up to and results following the consequential election.
Moby has long been vocal about his feelings about Trump, telling Billboard in May that “Sorry if you or anyone you know is Trump supporter, but I’m stunned that this horrifying — I mean, he’s almost like some evil, lizard, space alien person pretending to be human because it’s like he’s cartoonishly evil, but yet 50% of Americans want to vote for him.”
Following the election on Tuesday, other musicians including Cardi B, Marc Rebillet, Bette Midler, singer Ethel Cain and 50 Cent have all voiced their both negative and positive reactions to the news.
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Travis Kelce is, as expected, the biggest Swiftie!
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end sat down with his brother, Jason Kelce, for a new episode of the duo’s New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce podcast this week, where Travis opened up about his experience attending one more of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour stops before it wraps in Vancouver in December. He was spotted in the VIP section during night two of his girlfriend’s three-night run at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
“I wanted to see Tay one more time before this thing got closed up,” Travis explained during the episode. “I’ll tell you what, man. The American crowds, they did not disappoint. I heard that it was a lot more rowdy this time around, knowing she was coming back to stop through America one last time before the tour was over with, and I’ll tell you what, man, that thing was rocking. Absolutely rocking.”
Kelce has been to more than a dozen Eras Tour concerts since he first came to one of her Kansas City shows last summer. Prior to Swift’s stops in Germany, he attended her concert in Amsterdam with Patrick and Brittany Mahomes, as well as made a surprise onstage cameo in London.
The athlete made his Eras Tour stage debut at the start of “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.” The Kansas City Chiefs tight end carried an exhausted Swift to the couch on set in the over-the-top final act of her Tortured Poets extravaganza.
During the Indianapolis show, Kelce was seen dancing along with his girlfriend’s mom to the Tortured Poets Department track “So High School” in a fan-captured TikTok. The romantic song, which features lyrics like, “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle,” is widely be about the tight end.
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