Trapt frontman Chris Taylor Brown has long had a reptuation of being outspoken, having no problem publicly sparring with fans and detractors or arguing with those who dispute his strong right wing political beliefs. His decision to do so has generated numerous headlines over the years. In fact, following a particularly heated series of exchanges back in 2015, Brown explained why he chooses to directly engage people with no filter, stating:
“I will try to watch my language, I’ll try to be more professional. But I really don’t think a rock band needs to be professional. I don’t think we’re sitting in a corporate boardroom, mapping out how we should talk to people on social media. I’m gonna say what I want to say and I’m not gonna apologize for it.”
Though several years have passed, Brown seems to very much still subscribe to this school of thought. This week has seen Brown on quite an epic Twitter meltdown with vitriolic tweets and replies seemingly numbering in the hundreds. Slate.com went on to compile just a portion of them. Some highlights from the exchanges, which range from the outright political to the petty, can be seen below:
The political and more:
Stfu! Trump made the decision to close off travel from China early on! Europe didn’t do this! That is the SOLE reason the US doesn’t have bodies piling up and hospitals being overrun with the system about to fail, as is case in Italy. You should be thankful he made that decision!
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 16, 2020
Do you need a podium to announce this victimhood? I sell them…. 349 bucks. It’s a tall one.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 16, 2020
Naw, we’re loving our tax breaks, secure border and new trade deals! ??
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 17, 2020
Seriously?! It originated out of China! Just as with the “African” swine flu that decimated your pork industry, what we are dealing with here is a Chinese coronavirus! It’s not racism to state the origin of a virus. Ridiculous???????
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 17, 2020
We have barely any hospitalizations….. Until that goes way up, we have ZERO problems
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
Go live in Europe where the virus is actually overwhelming their health care system, UNLIKE in the US, since Trump shut travel from China, when Europe did not. Seriously…. go there.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
You’re a total idiot. The ONLY reason we are not seeing all the hospitalizations that Italy is seeing is because Trump banned travel from China early on. We do not see an exponential rise in hospitalizations dumbass…
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
We’re not tired of it. We don’t listen anymore. Been over 50 years since the Civil rights act was passed! Move the fuck on and knock that damn chip of your shoulder. Or not, your life. You can be a victim pointing you finger at everyone but yourself your whole life. Don’t care
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
Oh and NO GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THE US IS BEING OPPRESSED IN THE YEAR 2020! Stop being a fucking victim.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
You’re an idiot if you think anything I said was racist. You are what is wrong with the US and why Trump won and will be re-elected…
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
No, we have successfully flattened any curve for this virus overwhelming health care system. We are fully prepared and it won’t ever get to a point where a lot of people are taking up beds, as is the case in Italy.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
Our fans aren’t brainwashed followers who live in left wing echo chambers such as yourself…
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
I stand by EVERYTHING I say in this Slate article…. DON’T BE A VICTIM! That mentality will not help anyone…. This guy pushes racism for profit. https://t.co/MT1DCexFoU
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
Brown also commonly seeks to dismiss any potential barbs about his relevance as an artist with statistics pulled from streaming services, a sampling of that includes:
Sorry 2 million Spotify and 2.6 million Pandora listeners give us a great career doing what we love! Very thankful I get to do this for a living! Your pathetic meaningless existence will never compare to mine and you will never amount to anything and you know it???????
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
Sorry 2 million Spotify and 2.6 million Pandora listeners give us a great career doing what we love! Very thankful I get to do this for a living!
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
Sorry 2 million Spotify and 2.6 million Pandora listeners give us a great career doing what we love! Very thankful I get to do this for a living! Your pathetic meaningless fat ass waste of space will never amount to anything and you know it???????
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
We have 2 mil spotify and 2.6 mil Pandora users, right at this moment, who listen to everything we ever made because a major label made Headstrong a classic! It’s great to able to do what you love and make a great living at it. Sorry that won’t ever happen for you???????
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
Sorry, millions of Spotify and Pandora users listening to TRAPT every day means I will forever be 1000x more successful than you forever???????
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
Why would we give up large %’s of our money when we have already have large income streams? We’re not stupid like you. It’s why you have 5 roommates
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
Stfu you self hating ?? white douchebag. You hate your parents too. You’re a disgrace. We got 2 million Spotify and 2.6 million Pandora users helping us live our dreams our year after year. You should actually go out and get a real job and start contributing, you absolute loser.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
We beat em by a million on Pandora. They beat us on Spotify. Both bands are doing great. You on the other hand, your parents are so damn disappointed in you… You’re such a sorry excuse for a man.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 17, 2020
For as long as I live, I will make more money in a weekend than you will make in 3 years. Every year for the rest of my life. 2 million Spotify and 2.6 million Pandora users means we are one of the bigger rock bands out there. Much better numbers than Adema???????
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 18, 2020
There’s also been seemingly hundreds of of personal attacks and insults posted against those who have come out against Brown over the past few days as well. Should you want to dig into those, you can take the entire deep dive over at Twitter. Trapt of course found early success with their 2002 self-titled major label debut, which was certified platinum by the RIAA back in 2003. The sales were buoyed greatly by the breakout single “Headstrong“, which was certified platinum by the RIAA back in October of 2009. As of press time, that particular single has over 195 million streams on Spotify.
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