Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer just branched out into unchartered territory.
I would be down for a national anthem that sounded like a movie trailer. Opens with BWAAAAHMMMMM. Then another. Then narrator in a grisled and wise voice starts in, “We’re not a good country. We’ve done horrible things.” BWAAAAAHMMMMMM!
He gonna reuse the dune theme 😂
Sad to see a great composer who really doesn’t need the money, take money from a brutal suppressive dynasty to make something that will make said dynasty look good
Even Eminem went dick riding and sucking saudi dictatorship for money. Jennifer Lo went stripping in her mid 50s there, + so many othera as well. 99.99999% of Hollowyood celebs and influencers turn into cheap spinless hypocrite sellout money whores when offered a saudi check
Didn’t Vince McMahon sell a bunch of yearly shows to Saudi Arabia? I used to love me some old school wrestling till i realized what a creepo he was
didn’t they already sell out by going to Hollywood in the first place…?
We got it wrong. We should make a “non-boycott” list of people who aren’t assholes yet. It would be way shorter, and we would remove people when they become so fucking stupid and arse-licking that they have the idea of reworking the national anthems of shitholes such as saudi arabia.
So, Costco and who else?
Tom Morello is based as hell
I would add Elton John and Tom Hanks, but if I look too deeply they may secretly be British Nazis working for the Queen to overthrow the American government…
It might be an unpopular opinion, but it doesn’t make him a monster. His reasoning for it is that he doesn’t want to cause more harm.
Locking people up isn’t right either but he is entitled to a point of view
Reducing other’s freedoms because they’re bad for you is something I’d consider evil. People should be allowed to make choices for themselves. If you think they’re harmful than you should try to educate people, but you shouldn’t try to make them having a choice (which you were allowed to make) illegal.
Costco made their CEO a multi-billionaire, that means billions of dollars that could have stayed in the customers’ pockets or that could have been redistributed to all employees.
I’ve heard Dave Grohl is pretty ok?
https://medium.com/the-monthly/the-foo-fighters-aids-denialism-should-be-on-the-record-6e33666fdc3c
Not exactly. Also recently announced a child from cheating on his wife.
I knew it was too good to be true
I remember when in 2018 there was an uproar against Trump using that language
President Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators
The U.N. human rights office said the comments, if confirmed, were “shocking and shameful” and “racist,”
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I’m not surprised to see Lemmy embrace and adopt Trump’s language, so long as it’s aimed at countries y’all dislike, and so long as it fits y’all’s agenda
Trump didn’t invent this expression. Also any country that still cut heads is a shithole. Have a nice day.
No it’s a dictatorship. The people suffering under that US-armed and US-backed dictatorship don’t need the insults.
It’s a monarchy and the people generally seem to be okay with it on a certain level. I have been told by associates that is mostly because Islam inherently backs a caliphate and thus monarchy is not seen as undesirable.
Completely false. It’s a dictatorship that jails anyone who publicly disagrees with the government. MBS even locked up his own mother for criticizing his jailing of relatives. The people are NOT okay with it, thats like saying it seems like Saddam Hussein is popular because nobody wants to risk their lives speaking out.
And no, there is nothing at all in Islam that supports a king. A caliph is elected.
Please provide a valid source that backs your claim. Please find any evidence for widespread support for a non-monarchal state.
You’re asking me to prove a negative.
If it’s literally a capital offense to call for a different government, do you think people will freely admit to a pollster that they dislike the monarchy? Stop assuming that the dictator is actually popular.
I have never been to KSA so I’ll refuse to take a position on the nation but Trump is hardly the originator of that phrase. He’s just the classless idiot who used it on mic. If you are actually fluent in English it would be really weird to think this is “Trump’s language”
Racism and bigotry towards: Arabs, Chinese and Russians is still acceptable. They get to decide who is okay and not-okay.
I sincerely doubt that there is a way to determine which behaviours/beliefs are good or bad. I, for example, doubt that I will get a rating of “good” beyond 75% (educated guess).
Honestly, my standards for “good” behavior for corporations are astoundingly low; just don’t be bigoted, don’t actively wreck the planet, and don’t kill people.
And yet most of them can’t even manage that.
What about don’t steal billions from labor?
If I refused to patronize every business that did that, I’d likely starve to death. Which is incredibly sad.
I do try to avoid the worst offenders, though.
I wonder how he’s gonna include the part about slavery and misogyny
Fuck, not hans zimmer man 😭 Why did he sell out to us
But on the other hand, our anthem sucks ass. We need a better one so i guess it isn’t all bad?
He evidently does need the money, huh…
I always fucking knew this guy was a fucking hack. Fuck Hans zimmer.
🎵 …and the bone saw’s red glare
the screams filling the air
the sawing of limbs
and the blood everywhere
O say does that bonesaw in hand yet wave?… 🎵
He does have a very Hans-off approach to writing music.
Ooh baby a triple pun
I thought the guy was honourable.
Oof. Well, for his sake I hope he gets it right 🪚
After reading the article it sounds much less oniony. He was hired to make a new arrangement of the existing anthem, not compose a new one.
A new arrangement of an existing anthem is literally what rework means.
People from countries that just enabled a genocide being hypocritical about Saudi Arabia in the comments.
I really can’t wait for the West to stop being so dominant.
I’m pretty sure youre wrong to think people from the West on Lemmy support Israel. No one on here seems to 😅
I still get a lot of genocide apologia here, but not as bad as Reddit
I am against all war. That means, I am against; the Hamas terrorist group, Israeli government, Russian government, even the Indonesian government,and any other group/government starting wars.
Are you against Ukrainians resisting the Russian invasion? What if the Russians decided to colonize Ukrainian territory and brought their families with them? What if 2-3 generations passed and the Russian settlers had children and grandchildren? Do Ukrainians lose the right to resist and reclaim their land? If not, then why are you against the Palestinian resistance to the illegal occupation and blockade? You support the Papuans right to resist -as do I- but not the Palestinians? You can’t even be consistent. Racism? Willful ignorance? No way to know.
I never said said anything about not resisting. But isn’t hamas a terrorist group? And I condemned both Israeli government, and the terrorist group. Not the civilians of both countries.
But assume what you like, if that makes you happy. All I want is peace in the world.
Not going to happen in your grandchildren’s lifetimes.
History is riddled with empires that thought they were eternal.
I don’t think it is eternal but it will take decades to centuries to undo the concentration of wealth that occurred as a direct result of colonization.