Simple Plan…This is the band that had a hit with "No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls" Suddenly now we are to take them serious as they create a documentary on human trafficking. Odd, don't you agree?
Tomorrow we are off to Sapa to keep on learning about the issue of #HumanTrafficking and film a documentary with @mtvexit."
There is a weird undercurrent in rock and roll… everyone is an activist. So it seems. Yet in 2012 we took up a new question when doing interviews- 'what's your pet cause', and so far no one has really had one.
Which makes me wonder- why the media blurbs such as this? What is al this KONY2012, and water preservation stuff? Really if Simple Plan is going to teach us about human rights, they really have to get creative with their approach and it better be good. I don't think I've seen a more idiotic protest than Lady Gaga's 'don't ask don't tell' bullshit. Yeah, its easy to take someone who dresses in cow seriously..
Now this. Does it take away from the seriousness of a topic or does it enlighten their buzz brain fans? Neither. Its simply something to do and they get a bit of press along the way. Imagine that MTV is involved, what a farce.