“We played a charity event for musicians on call at the Rock and roll hall of fame”.
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The GOP must have a short memory, or an inability to click on HuffPo (or else they’ll turn into a pile of dust, like a staked vampire), because Third Eye Blind performed a gig at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the RNC last night.
The band reportedly played its more obscure songs and didn’t even deliver its most notable hit, the infectious “Semi-Charmed Life”, the song that features the catchy chorus “I want something else/To get me through this/Semi-charmed kind of life, baby, baby”.
At one point during the concert, Jenkins poked fun at controversial conservative views.
At the end of the set, Jenkins asked the crowd to “raise your hand if you believe in science”. Jenkins also talked favorably about gay rights.
In another video, Jenkins can be heard telling the crowd about gay members of his family and advising them not to impose fear on other people.
Maybe you weren’t expecting a Third Eye Blind storyline heading into the Republican National Convention week.
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The band later answered a complaint from a Twitter user who said she was “disappointed” by replying, “good”. “This whole hustle is peppered with music bits meant to Wednesday policies like forced births of rapists’ babies and minority voter suppression to song. Though I am happy to play for Republican fans, like my lifelong Republican mom, playing the RNC convention is a tacit endorsement of the Republican presidential candidate and his party platform, and this is not my mom’s Republican Party anymore”.
