{"id":383161,"date":"2026-04-16T22:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:03:13","slug":"its-hard-not-to-feel-political-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383161\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Hard Not to Feel Political in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/dave-grohl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dave Grohl<\/a> tries to avoid controversy like fish try to avoid the skies, but in a new interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/music\/2026\/04\/11\/dave-grohl-ill-write-something-i-have-a-hard-time-saying-it-feels-good-to-scream-that-shit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Irish Times<\/a>,\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/foo-fighters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Foo Fighters<\/a> frontman broke from convention and talked politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFucking Neil Young is angrier than ever \u2013 jeez, Louise,\u201d Grohl said. \u201cBut, yeah, of course, it\u2019s hard not to feel political living in America, where we\u2019re deeply divided. And there\u2019s injustice, and there\u2019s so much hate and fear, and it\u2019s such a drag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stubhub.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1100l9Pt3\/pubref:foo-fighters*political-change-button\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Ffoo-fighters-tickets%2Fperformer%2F7468\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Get Foo Fighters Tickets Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grohl added, \u201cI try to love everyone, because I think that\u2019s what you\u2019re supposed to do \u2013 and I do. But there needs to be change in that direction, and it\u2019s been hard to find in the States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Neil Young says eight angrier things than that before breakfast, but longtime Foo watchers know this as close as Grohl gets to turning green and hulking out of his flannels. Before that, he hadn\u2019t gotten much more political than a PR statement asking Donald Trump to stop playing \u201cMy Hero\u201d and donating proceeds from the song to Kamala Harris\u2019 campaign. \u201cThere needs to be change\u201d is very close to a direct criticism \u2014 almost unheard of for the man who famously saw his friends die and then \u201cchose life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foo Fighters\u2019 new album,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/02\/foo-fighters-your-favorite-toy-new-album-new-song-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Your Favorite Toy<\/a>,\u00a0drops April 24th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl tries to avoid controversy like fish try to avoid the skies, but in a new interview&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-383161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}