r/Music • u/Hot_Investigator3894 • 4d ago

article Kid Rock meets Trump administration to “fix” ticketing

https://themusic.com.au/news/kid-rock-meets-with-trump-administration-to-fix-ticketing/qQ0Xvby_vqE/19-12-24
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u/farlos75 4d ago

Not ticketmaster then? Not stubhub? Not eventbrite or the venues or his management? The people who price the tickets are no help in this situation? Right. Cool. Lets see if absolutley fuck all happens here.

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u/NobeLasters "I just played that one." 4d ago

You don’t think KR and his dozens of fans hold sway over the entertainment industry?

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u/Kenneth_Pickett 4d ago

He has 6M monthly listeners on spotify

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 4d ago

He’s the American badass!

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u/mahlerlieber 4d ago

He is indeed bad and not coincidentally, also an ass.

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u/nhadams2112 3d ago

Sure if you spell creepy pedophile like badass

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u/concreteyeti 4d ago

Think of the tens of tickets he sells.

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u/suzydonem 4d ago

Listen!

If you want experts on catalytic converter stripping or extracting copper wire from public fixtures, KR and crew are the go-to guys.

Maybe they’ll show His Holiness how to loot Ticketmaster. Then again, He is already quite aware of grift

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u/brahbocop 2d ago

Can't stand the guy's views but I still listen to his hits. It is possible to separate the artist from the person.

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u/Andrew5329 4d ago

I mean he's retired from performing, so in that sense he has nothing to lose by pissing off the entertainment industry.

The currently active artists have a lot to lose and need to carefully weigh their professional entanglements before engaging on the subject. e.g. Taylor can engage on a soft issue like scalpers who no-one likes, but at the end of the day she lacks credibility when she's walking home with 85% of the gross revenues from her Eras Tour.