Roughly 5 years after a few of the most divisive actions of Trapt vocalist/guitarist Chris Taylor Brown publicly transpired, his multi-platinum band proceed to really feel the fallout. Brown established himself as a controversial determine amid the peak of the pandemic, after more and more heated confrontations occurred on-line between himself and quite a few musicians (see right here and right here,) in addition to varied social media customers.
Brown‘s then rising vocal help of right-wing politics appeared to function the catalyst for no less than a few of these interactions. Finally, Brown‘s most damning alternate got here again in December of 2020, when his feedback on pedophilia received him banned from Twitter. A number of different social media accounts associated to Brown and Trapt have additionally been banned over time.
Whereas Trapt have remained energetic within the music world by way of all of it, Brown‘s previous exchanges and opinions on social media have seemingly nonetheless held a stiff consequence for the band. In 2024, amid obvious backlash, they had been faraway from the ‘Louder Than Life‘ pageant. The group posited that ‘advantage signaling’ was responsible, stating partly, “All alongside the media (govt propaganda mouthpiece) has tried to “destroy trapt” after 2020 and so they have failed miserably.”
Earlier this 12 months, in what seems to have been an identical state of affairs, they had been additionally faraway from a tour with Powerman 5000, Sick Niño and extra simply days after an preliminary announcement.
These reserving troubles have apparently prolonged to the band’s ongoing touring to at the present time, as a video shared yesterday (April 18th) by Brown noticed him declare roughly 4 venues booked for the band’s present acoustic tour ‘caved’ to ‘cancel tradition’ and scrapped Trapt‘s exhibits.
The group had been initially scheduled to have that trek hit the SideQuest on forty fourth in Pittsburgh, PA final evening, however had been impeded by an obvious venue cancelation. As a substitute, the band arrange an impromptu plywood stage as an alternative at The Constructing For Arts And Tradition in North Versailles, PA and went on to carry out a really intimate set.
Within the under video, Brown shared the next of the matter [transcribed by theprp.com]:
“What’s up? Trapt is in Pittsburgh tonight, and we had a pair venues cave to cancel tradition in the previous few weeks, and it was going to be actually exhausting to do the present. However we determined we’re doing it it doesn’t matter what. So we received a stage collectively. We received this venue, referred to as The Constructing For Arts And Tradition. We received some Bud Lights, White Claw, you already know, and simply all the pieces that our followers are going to want to have a good time with us tonight.
And I need to thank all of the venues on the market — it’s in all probability about 35 out of like 39 exhibits that didn’t cave to cancel tradition. The couple venues that did in Pittsburgh… You understand, they, trolls, they are saying… they lie about issues I mentioned 5 years in the past and the joke I made — I did apologize for that, for my insensitivity, for anyone who was who’s damage by that. However, yeah, we moved on. Our followers have moved on. There’s just a few individuals who haven’t, however yeah, we did this present… We had been, we had been gonna do that present it doesn’t matter what.
And I simply need to thank Chase — he helped us put this collectively — and he additionally was like, ‘We’re doing it it doesn’t matter what.’ They’re not stopping the present. It’s gonna be an important evening tonight, and we’ll present you all of the footage after we get executed.”
Talking on social media this previous March, Brown talked about that he and the band had been distancing themselves from politics on social media lately, stating:
“Blessed to have followers that caught with us by way of all of the 2020 Trump help hate. So near hitting one million listeners in per week! We had been at 994k yesterday, lol. Come on Spotify, let’s get hit that million mark! As quickly as Trump received final 12 months, the hate has dialed up. Appears Trump haters want an outlet to reveal their frustration, sadly. Trapt has not spoken about something aside from music for years now. Once more, thanks to our followers for having our backs by way of all of it! ~CTB”