Craig and Charlie Reid, who make up the beloved Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers, best known for their 1988 hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” denounced trans rights while promoting their new album, claiming the movement for equality is merely “the Left losing their collective mind.”
The 64-year-old twin brothers discussed their new and staunchly political album, You May Offend, with The Telegraph earlier this month. While the songs express several views that veer left, they made clear in their interview that they do not support trans rights.
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I pray they both live long enough to learn how misguided these views are.
What a kind approach.
There’s a Buddhist insult “May they be enlightened before me.”
Just make music, bitch.
Actually, you’re in your 60s and your one-hit-wonder was a long, long time ago. Just go do a jigsaw puzzle and shut the fuck up.
Like we were all sitting around wondering what the Proclaimers would make of twentieth century modernity.
Guess some people have to go to extremes to stay relevant.
Man people get so up in arms about this shit. I literally could not give a fuck what trans people are doing, they are not affecting anyone, live your life. You know what would actually be a brave stance ? Speaking out against billionaire pedophiles. Sorry thats redundant.
I could not care less what you have or want to have in your pants. Or what consenting adult you want to fuck.
It’s not any of my damn business.
Exactly !!
Genuinely asking myself “how does this affect me” has saved me from becoming a horrible person on a number of social issues.
Its so simple. If only half the population saw it that way.
It’s all about their personal insecurity. They would prefer that millions suffer over getting help.
Then I hope they walk 500 miles on broken glass then walk 500 more.
They can fuck 500 miles right off this planet.
And then fuck off 500 more.
Just to be the men who walked 1,000 miles to fall way down Earth’s core.
Straight up, then straight back down
Poor David Tennant is really catching all the bad marks with this one.
He and the Doctor Who crew for Series 3 did a whole cover of the whole song a while back.
This one hurts a little more than usual, I wooed my love with that song. It’s one of our songs.
What causes famous people to do this? They could have simply sat back and collected royalties and not made waves. No one was asking these one hit wonders what their opinions on anything were. They just threw their careers and reputations away unprompted. Even ignoring how wrong how are, why would they think this is a good move?
Did you ever listen to Sunshine on Leith? My mother bought it back when it came out, and it was pretty clear to me from the start that they were reactionary nationalists. This doesn’t surprise me at all.
No. Like most people on my side of pond, I have only listened to 500 Miles and also the one that was in Shrek.
Their problem with the left is the concept of equality?
Idea: someone should be a weird al-type who only parodies shitty artists like this
Cause I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to support transfolk
GET JA RULE ON THE PHONE
This shit is not music.
It’s not a song, neither is the Ed Sheeran post or the countless posts about artists dying. Yet you don’t seem to care about them?
Never mind them. Music is art, and art is a conversation. If that bastard can make music that is transphobic, then it’s fair game to talk about them being a shithead.
