Think what you want about Mac DeMarco, he is very successful and he drained a huge crowd at the FYF fest a few weeks ago. He certainly wants to pass for this ultra cool guy, very friendly with people, setting no barrier whatsoever between him and his audience, and having no behavior restriction either,… he often smokes on stage, a crime here in California… So he is very popular and naturally people get jealous.
According to the Guardian, he experienced some backlash recently, upsetting a band called Fat White Family, a five-piece band from South London. In a recent Facebook post, the band wrote a very disturbing comment:
‘Unless Mac demarco immediately withdraws from music and the public eye, me and saul will be on the first plane to Syria to join Isis.
Peace be with you.’
I don’t want to take sides here, but this comment seems so pointless and kind of stupid, and isn’t it a cry of envy? DeMarco had this to say to the Guardian about the incident:
‘People ask: ‘These are your friends, right? This is a funny thing? I’m like, ‘I’ve never met these guys. I don’t know what they sound like.’ They asked me to play guitar with them on David Letterman a couple of months ago and I said no. But I guess somewhere in between that time and now they decided that they didn’t like me actually and yeah, if they have a problem, then that’s fine. Not everyone’s going to like my music. That’s fine.’… ‘I don’t know anything about them. I don’t know anything about their music but it just kind of comes off as misinformed and a little bit disrespectful.’
Aww, this shows that DeMarco is actually like everyone else, he deeply cares about what people think about him, and despite his success, he seems to get hurt when some random UK band dislikes him? I have no idea why he rejected the Letterman offer if he doesn’t know their music, but this is not a reason to go all Jihad on him. I don’t get DeMarco’s huge success but may be it all comes for the heart, people like him because he is such a nice guy?
‘Like it or not, I am essentially a role model for these kids,’ he continued, ‘and you know I smoke and drink and make lewd jokes and dress sketchy and people are probably like: ‘Oh, he probably stinks bad,’ and shit. But that stuff is so surface it doesn’t really matter. The important thing to me, especially on stage, is that people come to exude some – the message of being kind, of being respectful, of being nice to everybody. Kiss your mum on her head when you go.’
It may be DeMarco’s sole ambition? He wants to be a regular guy and the nicest guy in the music business.