{"id":3325,"date":"2023-10-03T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2023-10-03T13:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:50:13","slug":"former-mumford-sons-musician-speaks-out-on-professional-punishment-for-artists-like-alice-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=3325","title":{"rendered":"Former Mumford &#038; Sons musician speaks out on &#8216;professional punishment&#8217; for artists like Alice Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-meta article-meta-upper\">\n<h2 class=\"sub-headline speakable\">Marshall left folk rock band Mumford &amp; Sons after tweeting support for book that exposed Antifa radicalism<\/h2>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Former Mumford &amp; Sons musician\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winston Marshall<\/a>\u00a0shared his frustrations about the apparent &#8220;professional punishment&#8221; for artists who dare to challenge progressive ideology in a new interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Marshall made headlines in 2021 after he left the folk rock band Mumford &amp; Sons following the uproar after he tweeted his support for a book by conservative author Andy Ngo that explored the left-wing radicalism of Antifa, &#8220;Unmasked: Inside Antifa\u2019s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what it feels like to be &#8220;canceled,&#8221; Marshall empathized with the likes of singers who have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/entertainment\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faced the music<\/a>\u00a0as of late.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div id=\"desktop_desk-art-media-lb2\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit=\"\" data-ad-init=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CLThhcWC2oEDFZlM4AodtaUNcA\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"300x250\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/media\/lb2_0__container__\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/media\/lb2_0\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" role=\"region\" src=\"https:\/\/eed1c551436d6496886107c52e422aee.safeframe.googlesyndication.com\/safeframe\/1-0-40\/html\/container.html\" name=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-is-safeframe=\"true\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-google-container-id=\"4\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oliver Anthony, a country artist from Farmville, Virginia, released a single called &#8220;Rich Men North of Richmond&#8221; that resonated with struggling, every day Americans. But he was demonized in some corners by liberal media for having put out a so-called right-wing anthem. Rolling Stone Magazine published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony-conservative-country-song-1234805701\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a piece<\/a>\u00a0about the popular single entitled, &#8220;Right Wing Influencers Just Found Their Favorite New Country Song.&#8221; The piece noted that the lyrics may appeal to &#8220;right-wing influencers&#8221; in part because Anthony &#8220;rails against high taxes and the value of the dollar, but also wades into some Reagan-era talking points about welfare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oliver Anthony, for example, working-class guy, has this song which resonates with millions upon millions &#8211; not just in America, but across the world, people &#8211; the left-behind working classes. And they just can&#8217;t even process it,&#8221; Marshall said of the media in an interview with Fox News Digital. &#8220;So they sort of embarrassed themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/343\/192\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/686\/384\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/672\/378\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1344\/756\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/931\/523\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1862\/1046\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/720\/405\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1440\/810\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1200\/675\/GettyImages-1151994754.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Winston Marshall\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Winston Marshall of Mumford &amp; Sons performs during BottleRock Napa Valley 2019 at Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2019, in Napa, California.\u00a0\u00a0(Photo by Tim Mosenfelder\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marshall singled out Rolling Stone&#8217;s write-up of Anthony, who has since said he doesn&#8217;t identify with either side of the political aisle and has won plaudits as untarnished by partisan politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re certainly seeing a massive gap between the media and the people,&#8221; Marshall said. &#8220;And I wrote about this, particularly the response by Rolling Stone Magazine, if you could see that they attempted a takedown of Oliver Anthony\u2026 they&#8217;re the magazine that used to be the voice of counterculture. Now they don&#8217;t know counterculture when it slaps them in the face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marshall referenced two other artists who&#8217;d been targeted for their views, including Irish singer R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rock-legend-alice-cooper-loses-cosmetics-deal-blasting-transgenderism-fad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rocker Alice Cooper<\/a>. Murphy, the former lead singer for the band Moloko, caused an uproar after posting a private Facebook message saying that puberty blockers were harmful to kids. Murphy later apologized for her Facebook message, particularly to her LGBTQ fanbase, saying she realized her &#8220;comments have been directly hurtful to many of you.&#8221; Cooper, meanwhile, lost a cosmetics deal after referring to transgenderism as a &#8220;fad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of those things were true,&#8221; Marshall said of Murphy&#8217;s comments. &#8220;And you have it happened to Alice Cooper this summer. Vampyre Cosmetics\u2026 dropped him because he said&#8230; &#8216;Just because you identify as a tree, doesn&#8217;t mean you are one,&#8217; or something along those lines. There still remains professional punishment for saying things that are true but are not correct, according to progressive orthodoxies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div id=\"desktop_desk-art-media-lb3\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb3\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit=\"\" data-ad-init=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CK34lMaC2oEDFRb0EQgdISYPGA\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"728x250\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/media\/lb3_0__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/media\/lb3_0\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" role=\"region\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/media\/lb3_0\" width=\"728\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"6\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/343\/192\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/686\/384\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/672\/378\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1344\/756\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/931\/523\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1862\/1046\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/720\/405\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1440\/810\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1200\/675\/Anthony2.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Oliver Anthony with his guitar\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>Christopher Anthony Lunsford, who goes by the stage name Oliver Anthony, warms up next to a loading dock behind the buildings lining Main Street before a surprise performance at the Rock the Block street festival on August 26, 2023, in Farmville, Virginia.\u00a0(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marshall now hosts &#8220;Marshall Matters,&#8221; a podcast on The Spectator, where he explores taboo topics. He&#8217;s been hoping to get comedian Shane Gillis to come on the program. Gillis, no stranger to controversy himself, was fired from &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; after video surfaced of him using homophobic and racial slurs in a 2018 podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of these artists, they ride a wave of a feeling and movement, and he&#8217;s very in tune with what&#8217;s going on, which is kind of like the antithesis to legacy media,&#8221; Marshall said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s exciting to me that artists and comedians and films are &#8211; &#8216;I&#8217;m not getting held back by the gatekeepers.&#8217; That has happened over the last five, ten years. Now, it&#8217;s still the case in music that a lot of artists are, and it&#8217;s almost weekly now that artists are getting canceled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But while cancel culture appears to still be a very real threat, Marshall said he&#8217;s hopeful seeing more artists like Anthony being so bold in their lyrics and so open about their faith. Anthony recently appeared on Joe Rogan&#8217;s podcast and shared how his walk with God changed his life, before reading from the book of Proverbs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On a more positive note, instead of sort of sh&#8212;ing on everyone, I&#8217;m very excited that there are artists who are now writing freely, singing freely about these things,&#8221; Marshall said. &#8220;And I sense the tide now turning and the story of Oliver Anthony&#8217;s, there&#8217;s so many things that are incredible about Oliver Anthony, not just that he writes beautiful songs, he has an incredible voice, but this guy&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/viral-musician-oliver-anthony-quotes-bible-joe-rogan-explaining-how-faith-saved-his-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reading Scripture in media<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ten years ago, 15 years ago, no one told &#8211; even Christians didn&#8217;t really talk about being Christian publicly or very few did,&#8221; Marshall continued. &#8220;Now the culture is really changing where it&#8217;s cool to be Christian. And that is so exciting. And it&#8217;s kind of the Christianity is the counterculture and there&#8217;s a lot of Christianity in the \u2018Sound of Freedom\u2019 movie as well. And for me that&#8217;s signaling a really big shift in the creative industries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div id=\"desktop_desk-art-media-lb4\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb4\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit=\"\" data-ad-init=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CJnIhMeC2oEDFdZx4AodHJcJkw\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"728x250\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/media\/lb4_0__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/media\/lb4_0\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" role=\"region\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/4145\/fnc\/desk\/art\/media\/lb4_0\" width=\"728\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"7\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As for his current relationship with former Mumford &amp; Sons bandmates and friends, Marshall simply said he wishes them the best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve said before, I wish them all the best and that all their dreams come true,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall left folk rock band Mumford &amp; Sons after tweeting support for book that exposed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":44,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}