The founding manager of rock band Evanescence claims he was fired after reporting that Tait assaulted him. An Evanescence co-founder denies he was fired for that reason

The founding manager of rock band Evanescence claims he was fired after reporting that Tait assaulted him. An Evanescence co-founder denies he was fired for that reason

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 hours ago

    Yeah. How very predictable. At this point if I hear a loud Christian, I just assume they’re doing something really awful.

  • sylvieslayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    9 hours ago

    Jeeeeezus Christ. I’m printing copies of this article, taping them to bricks and launching them at anyone who tries to accuse the queens or queers of this shit

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
    461·
    2 days ago

    ID verification won’t protect anyone from rapists like him.

    But it just might protect PREDATORS from CONSEQUENCES by suppressing public knowledge of their crimes.

    Jesus fucking Christ we need to riot.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    When I was young, I went to several concerts for DC Talk (his band at the time) and the Newsboys (the band he became the frontman for).

    While I’m still religious, I’ve since become an outspoken critic of corporate Christianity. Having a bunch of rich people singing pop songs to arenas full of people paying hundreds of dollars each with million-dollar lighting systems spotlighting the singers doesn’t feel very humble and spiritual.

    So it’s fair to say I already had issues with this dude for profiteering of people’s faith. With the newest revelations, I’m shaking with rage. This assholes and those who hid his actions pretended to be faithful servants while destroying lives and raking in profits and praise. They pretended to be exemplars of goodness so they could establish implicit trust, then used that trust to violate others.

    Fuck them all.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      33·
      2 days ago

      Reading this article, is that your takeaway from this? The band doesn’t seem to have had much at all to do with it

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
      25·
      2 days ago

      I’m not entirely sure this can be put on the band. They were young people who had no idea how to handle or even see what was going on.

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        Agreed. This is more a combination of naive people being exploited by a sexual predator, and the tragic ripple effects of that.

        But that said, I just looked up a history of Evanescence, and there appeared to be a lot of problems in their first incarnation. Some of that might be the effects of the abuse their male band members and management suffered. But there was also a lot of bad blood between Lee and Moody that seemed to predate Tait’s abuse.