When the Strokes performed at Coachella on Saturday, the rock band used their platform to make a statement against U.S. intervention in foreign countries. They closed up their set with Future Present Past track \u201cOblivius\u201d\u2014which they have not performed live since 2016\u2014and a video montage featuring clips of Middle East bombings, slavery, and U.S. missile strikes. The song timely features the repeated chorus: \u201cWhat side you standing on?\u201d<\/p>\n
As Julian Casablancas sang the track, a backdrop featuring a mosque and a collection of screens showing a chronology of American sins around the world. The videos accused the CIA of impelling regime changes in Chile, Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and elsewhere, and included the names of those countries\u2019 overthrown (and\/or assassinated) leaders: onetime Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh, former Chilean president Salvador Allende, former Panamanian president Omar Torrijos, and former Bolivian president Juan Jos\u00e9 Torres.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Captions noted the years of their death or alleged overthrowings. A later part of the montage included a large photo of Frederick Douglass. Another accusation levied against the government consisted of an image of Martin Luther King, Jr. alongside the caption \u201cUSGOVT found guilty of his murder in civil trial\u201d\u2014in reference to a 1999 civil trial in which a jury decided the government had conspired to assassinate King. The montage concluded with a series of videos showing recent American bombings in the Middle East, alongside a message reading \u201cOver 30 universities destroyed in Iran,\u201d and a video showing a Palestinian building being destroyed by an explosion, and a caption that read: \u201cLast university standing in Gaza.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last year, Northern Irish rap group Kneecap said, \u201cIsrael is committing Genocide against the Palestinian people. It is being enabled by the U.S. government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes. Fuck Israel Free Palestine,\u201d during their Coachella performance. After the festival, the band claimed that their pro-Palestine messages were cut from the festival\u2019s livestream. This time, Coachella aired the Strokes\u2019 performance in full. During the Strokes\u2019 weekend 1 performance, Casablancas wore a T-shirt with the word \u201ccrime,\u201d in e-commerce giant Amazon-style font, written across the front. In 2021, he signed a \u201cMusicians for Palestine\u201d letter. The Strokes start their world tour in June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Strokes performed at Coachella on Saturday, the rock band used their platform to make a statement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-422955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}