Tool's Maynard James Keenan talks about his "feud" with Justin Bieber and says he's "probably a good kid"

When Tool singer Maynard James Keenan heard that pop star Justin Bieber was a fan, he responded on social media with a very hard "# bummer". "You must be unhappy with yourself and want people to feel small and express their admiration for you," she wrote on Twitter. "Very childish and hurtful thing. I hope you find safety in yourself. Sad place to be. "

In a new Zane Lowe interview with Beats 1, Keenan realized how there was more weight in this #bumm than you thought. "[W]While I make a statement like "bummer", it has nothing to do with it, "he said." It has to do with … I know the ocean of shit that will follow because He could not just be a fan of silent tools, he had to say it out loud, and now I know that the flood comes from people who do not get it, and the people who think they're going to do it, and they're going to argue, and it's going to be stupid, and that's okay, and that poor kid is caught in the line of fire, as he was, as he is. "

What it seems to recognize here, is that someone who occupies Bieber's place in the cultural sphere publicly boasting a band such as Tool will trigger the (very) core vocal fans of the band , which will then trigger the (very) partisan of the fans, which will produce a lot of very very stupid conversations about music and who has the right to love what. This conversation would have taken place whether Keenan reacted to it or not, although his resounding "#bummer" certainly fueled the fire.

After all, it's not even as if Keenan himself had a problem with Bieber. "He's probably a good kid. It's the shit that surrounds it, "he said. "He's never been armed with the tools to handle it. And the people around him are monsters … So, God bless him, he is the product of those things we have talked about many times in every project I have ever done. "

Keenan echoes Bieber himself here, and one wonders if he saw the words that the pop star posted on his social accounts the other night. In this document, Bieber has admitted his alienating behavior in recent years and acknowledged that he was propelled to fame before learning the "fundamentals of responsibility" or knowing how to manage his emotions.

Whatever it is, we hope that the Bieber family benefits Inoculum of fear. They would do well to keep that for themselves.

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