Never has a headline brought me more displeasure to write. Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has thrown shade at Taylor Swift. Keenan took to Twitter last week to preemptively celebrate Tool’s Fear Inoculum outselling Taylor Swift’s Lover and scoring the no. 1 spot on the Billboard 200.
As Billboard report; the week ending on September 5 saw Fear Inoculum sell 270,000 equivalent album units, Lover sells 178,000 units.
Keenan indulged in the popular Thanos “snap” meme, superimposing himself over Thanos and willing Taylor Swift into dust. “Heh. #comedyfirstandalways #lightenuporjogon,” he captioned the post, tagging Swift.
Whilst a chart-topping record and an Avengers meme may seem like a sick burn, it doesn’t hold a candle to the absolute roasting that is Taylor Swift’s fanbase not having the faintest idea of who you are.
Heh. #comedyfirstandalways #lightenuporjogon @taylorswift13 @puscifer @Tool pic.twitter.com/RSGKXaZvJV
— Maynard J Keenan (@mjkeenan) September 7, 2019
Swifties made headlines last week after they came to the shared realisation that Taylor Swift’s number 1 spot was in jeopardy, at the hands of a band they’d never heard of.
Fans took to social media to share their grief over the knowledge that “a new band called Tool” might topple their favourite from her chart-topping throne.
“Anyways who the fuck is TOOL?,” wrote one fan, “and can they move their fat ass like genuienly no idea who that is am i the only one??????”
Whilst other fans took time to do their research on the prog-metal icons.
“I had no clue who they were and i assumed that they were a new band from Spotify (even i listen to a lot of Classic Rock),” shared StateOfReds13. “After doing some research, i see that they are an influential act in rock and metal scene.”
It’s incredibly wholesome stuff.
It looks like Maynard James Keenan is trying his hardest to wage wars with the most active, impassioned pop fan bases. Earlier this year, Keenan received a bollocking from Belieber’s after flaming Justin Bieber on Twitter.
The Biebs took to Instagram stories to share a photo of himself listening to Tool track ‘The Pot’, encouraging fans to check out the song if they hadn’t before. When news of Bieber’s unexpected admiration for Tool hit Keenan’s radar, he simply tweeted “#bummer.”
Naturally, this sparked a heated debate between Keenan, Bieber’s wife Hailey Baldwin, and an army of Beliebers. Read more about it now.
