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Oh boy. Someone let Akkad know his bois are woke AF too … 2003 LOS ANGELES — A rock band crashes the Justin and Christina tour, a gay pride parade and the BET Awards to play their new single? It might sound like an episode of “Jackass” or “PUNK’D,” but it’s not. It’s the setup for Alien Ant Farm’s next video.
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On Sunday, the band dressed the truck as a giant ant — complete with mandibles, antennae and legs — and entered it as a float in West Hollywood’s Gay Pride Parade.
“We thought it would be funny to just go down the parade on a float, appreciating diversity and jamming on our instruments,” Corso said. “And it was a really long parade, too. We did multiple takes of the song going down Santa Monica Boulevard.”
And how did the crowd react? "It was wonderful! We didn’t ‘belong’ there, but it was cool. There were a couple of like ‘Blue Oyster Bar’-type biker boys on the side of the street, in full garb, like a couple of Rob Halfords. [They] threw me metal horns.
“The most negative response we got all day was [from] the [anti-gay] fanatics,” he continued. “All those ignorant bastards were corralled in [one area] with megaphones, placards, everything. When we went by, we stopped playing and started gesturing at these people, if you know what I mean. They were gesturing back at us, and they were yelling. And all the people attending the parade were cheering for us.”
Oh you mean the people who covered a Black man’s song as a tribute to that said Black man? A
AF Black man?
Akkad are you ok? Are you ok Akkad?
Oh boy. Someone let Akkad know his bois are woke AF too
… 2003 LOS ANGELES — A rock band crashes the Justin and Christina tour, a gay pride parade and the BET Awards to play their new single? It might sound like an episode of “Jackass” or “PUNK’D,” but it’s not. It’s the setup for Alien Ant Farm’s next video.
… On Sunday, the band dressed the truck as a giant ant — complete with mandibles, antennae and legs — and entered it as a float in West Hollywood’s Gay Pride Parade.
“We thought it would be funny to just go down the parade on a float, appreciating diversity and jamming on our instruments,” Corso said. “And it was a really long parade, too. We did multiple takes of the song going down Santa Monica Boulevard.”
And how did the crowd react? "It was wonderful! We didn’t ‘belong’ there, but it was cool. There were a couple of like ‘Blue Oyster Bar’-type biker boys on the side of the street, in full garb, like a couple of Rob Halfords. [They] threw me metal horns.
“The most negative response we got all day was [from] the [anti-gay] fanatics,” he continued. “All those ignorant bastards were corralled in [one area] with megaphones, placards, everything. When we went by, we stopped playing and started gesturing at these people, if you know what I mean. They were gesturing back at us, and they were yelling. And all the people attending the parade were cheering for us.”
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