All Third Eye Blind, the ’90s rock band, wanted to do Tuesday night was play its songs at a charity event at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame near the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Plus trash Donald Trump.
Republicans certainly weren’t feeling it.
The band drew a round of “boos” after the lead singer, Stephan Jenkins, began speaking in support of LGBT rights and hinted at his dislike for Trump.
“You can boo all you want, but I’m the motherfucking artist up here,” Jenkins told his audience.
Some fans were dismayed that the band didn’t play its hits like “Semi-Charmed Life,” as cleveland.com reported.
Here’s some of the evidence social media has to offer us the morning after:
Third Eye Blind tonite at #RNCinCLE event: We believe in tolerance, acceptance ?? (Followed by boos) pic.twitter.com/WPRIEMZmEp
— Tina (@tinpant) July 20, 2016
Third Eye Blind playing RIAA event in CLE & trashing @RNC platform to loud boos from Republicans. Then they play Jumper & everyone cheers.
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) July 20, 2016
Epic @ThirdEyeBlind troll of RNC event. Played none of the hits, bashed GOP platform, asked “Who here believes in science?” So much booing.
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) July 20, 2016
.@ThirdEyeBlind gets political, frontman says they reject RNC platform re: LGBT rights. Crowd boos but goes BANANAS when they play Jumper.
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) July 20, 2016
Third Eye Blind didn’t play Semicharmed Life so they’re dead to me/sick of it and I understand that as a rational person
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) July 20, 2016
The band even took its trolling to Twitter after the concert:
@LWhiteGRLprob good
— Third Eye Blind (@ThirdEyeBlind) July 20, 2016
