Roger Waters of Pink Floyd made a bold statement against Drake and The Weeknd, stating that he is “far more important” than any Canadian artist.
During an interview on Friday with the Canadian publication, Globe and MailThe 78-year-old musician said it “sounds strange” that The Weeknd’s concert received more media coverage than Toronto publications, considering it was canceled due to a widespread outage.
The conversation initially began with a question about Waters’ audience on his “This Is Not a Workout” tour, which kicked off the first week of July. After the reporter said he was unable to review Waters’ show because it was scheduled to cover the weekend the same night, Waters provided a response.
“I have no idea what the weekend is or who it is, because I don’t listen to much music,” Waters began. “People told me it was a great job. Well, good luck to him. I have nothing against him. Couldn’t he have reviewed his show one night and shown it the other night?”
Waters emphasized that his comments were not intended to be a “personal attack,” adding, “With all due respect to The Weeknd or Drake or either of them, I am now far more important than any of them will ever be, and with that many billions of streams that They have. There are things that happen here that are fundamentally important to all of our lives.”
Waters has made politics a central theme in his upcoming shows, a freedom he now exercises because he is “not constrained by the rock band I was with at the time”.
“They were always trying to drag me away from my natural instinct, which is to tell the truth,” Waters said.
On the night of Waters’ premiere of “This Is Not a Drill” tour, The Brooklyn is vegan The musician was quoted as saying, “If you’re one of those ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Roger’s politicians,’ you might as well go down to the bar now.”
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