Beginning on March 15, the official Trapt Twitter account and singer Chris Taylor Brown have been on a meltdown of mythical proportions. They’ve taken on everyone from Captain America to your average Joe. Well, some other musicians such as Kellin Quinn, Tillian Pearson from Dance Gavin Dance and Tyler (Telle) Smith from the Word Alive have fired back.
Other bands and musicians like Power Trip, Eric Vanlerberghe and Dylan Bowman from I Prevail also clapped at Trapt. The former even challenged Trapt to a concert showdown to see who could draw a bigger crowd.
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We’ll start from the top if this seems like a parody to you.
Trapt, best known for the 2002 hit “Headstrong” took the opportunity to attempt to boost Donald Trump‘s approval rating (and Nickelback‘s) during this coronavirus quarantine. Beginning on March 15, the band disagreed with a Tweet by Captain America actor Chris Evans regarding coronavirus.
Stfu! Trump made the decision to close off travel from China early on! Europe didn’t do this! That is the SOLE reason the US doesn’t have bodies piling up and hospitals being overrun with the system about to fail, as is case in Italy. You should be thankful he made that decision!
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 16, 2020
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From there, Trapt began unloading all of their feelings on everybody who was in their line of sight.
The total of tweets and replies is too many to entirely include. We’ll include some, but to keep it brief, Trapt started the hashtags #whiteprivilegedoesnotexist and #nooneisbeingoppressedin2020. They also championed Nickelback and loved flaunting about their royalty money from the aforementioned “Headstrong.”
You need to go to doc and tell him that you got low T…. It will help with your mood
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
You should def quit playing music. You can’t sing and your band can’t play. Don’t even get me started on your attempts at making an actual song, 😂
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
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Nickelback is amazingly successful. That’s not an insult🤦🏻♂️ You have to be the biggest loser idiot on twitter
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 17, 2020
As of March 19, the responses and tweets by Trapt were over 900. We’re certain that number has far been surpassed.
Well, some members of the music scene are firing back at Trapt and their “Headstrong” mentality.
Pearson of Dance Gavin Dance engaged in quite a lengthy conversation with Trapt regarding the number of streams of both bands and money they made. Trapt, or Brown, seemed to have no idea what they were doing. It all started with a tweet by Noah Sebastian of Bad Omens.
Shut the fuck up you latte sipping vegan douchebag…. Stop playing music this instance! You’re making a mockery of the craft
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
It must feel really good to be so relevant in the music scene after all these years, pumping out hit after hit. I hope Trapt’s consistent and smashing success will one day contribute to you finally losing your virginity
— Tilian (@tilianpearson) March 19, 2020
Not that it matters, but on a yearly basis we absolutely shred you in total streams, album sales and ticket sales. You have inflated numbers on unique listeners because people listen to your one song and change it immediately
— Tilian (@tilianpearson) March 19, 2020
It seems like you need help understanding how numbers work. A higher total number of streams means more success—or in your case, transparently insecure Twitter machismo in lieu of actual arguments. So to play your game, we had 132 million streams in on spotify 2019
— Tilian (@tilianpearson) March 19, 2020
The good news is, it seems like your are true to your lyrics and you seem “headstrong to take on anyone,” even if it means going in with incomplete data, cherry picking unique pandora streamers who were listening to 3 day grace when your song popped up and they didn’t change it
— Tilian (@tilianpearson) March 19, 2020
I’m sure you made a lot of $$ in the early 2000s, I hope you saved some
— Tilian (@tilianpearson) March 19, 2020
Certainly not playing music. I’m glad you’re confident in your second career though
— Tilian (@tilianpearson) March 20, 2020
Tilian’s voice is awesome. In other news @TRAPTOFFICIAL will still be going on tour through the covid-19 pandemic as no more than ten people will be attending their shows on a given night.
— Dylan Bowman (@DylanBowman) March 20, 2020
No u. I could lay down in a bathtub filled w/ water up to my asshole, put a mic next to it and push out the most percussive djenty rhythmic fart and record it and I bet it would get more radio play and streams than your latest releases.
— Dylan Bowman (@DylanBowman) March 20, 2020
HEADSTRONG ILL TAKE YOU ON https://t.co/hf3ltPB9NW
— Eric Vanlerwhatever (@DickVanberg) March 20, 2020
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— Eric Vanlerwhatever (@DickVanberg) March 20, 2020
Chris Fronzak of Atilla jumped in on the action, as did Smith from The Word Alive and Sleeping With Sirens‘ Quinn.
Watching @TRAPTOFFICIAL get straight bodied by warped tour twitter is amazing 😂
— Metalcore Gatsby (@FRONZ1LLA) March 20, 2020
Since @TRAPTOFFICIAL keeps talking about how he has more money than literally everybody 😂😂
How about you post a screenshot of that account balance.
I wonder how many agents/promoters/bands are gonna blacklist you after coronavirus is done & everybody goes back to work but you
— TELLE {MONOMANIA OUT NOW} (@tellesmith) March 20, 2020
If only that provided you the luxury of owning a toothbrush and Kleenex 😂
TRAPPED > Trapt https://t.co/F8VCQSHVFD pic.twitter.com/sfjiBgthhb
— TELLE {MONOMANIA OUT NOW} (@tellesmith) March 20, 2020
Patiently waiting for Mr. Trapt to tell me he makes more money than me because I know for a fact he certainly does not 🤣
— Metalcore Gatsby (@FRONZ1LLA) March 20, 2020
My name Mr. Trapt and me angy 😡 pic.twitter.com/iQi92BFnxn
— Metalcore Gatsby (@FRONZ1LLA) March 20, 2020
Dude…. 🙄
— K𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧 Q𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐧 (@Kellinquinn) March 20, 2020
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Steve Micciche from Every Time I Die and the Acacia Strain‘s Vincent Bennett also added their humor and thoughts.
An absolute embarrassment. Dude needs some serious help.
— Steve Micciche (@MitchBHavin) March 20, 2020
Can’t take us all on.
— Vinny Benny: New Horizons (@xDIAMONDCUTx) March 20, 2020
One of the greatest parts of this whole Twitter storm is that Riley Gale of Power Trip challenged Trapt to a showdown.
You don’t sell tickets to anything….
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
sounds like you’re scared to play the game. is this where i drop the sell out figures from our headlining tours, or our high presale numbers from everywhere else? how about hometown? don’t even get me started on walk up numbers. you’ve already lost, but pick your poison, nerd. https://t.co/5r02PyhywJ
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
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There were a lot more people there than that on a Monday during coronavirus time you dumb fuck…
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
don’t respond to them. respond to me. put your money where your mouth is, bitch. https://t.co/xNWB2XaiRb
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
oh that’s right, you’re probably broke from delusional fantasies of real success. my bad. we could just make it an easy $20 wager, if that helps?
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
that’s weird, i’d call countless US headliners and european tours and getting flown to indonesia for the 1st time last year just to headline a festival of 8k+ people is more than “anything”. but keep avoiding the challenge, pal. cuz ya know you’ve already lost. https://t.co/fILw7JNb91
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
i’d be willing to bet my band would outdraw yours with only 24 hours notice to promote it. i’ll give y’all 24 weeks. hell, i’ll give you 24 months. might as well call it your last show because we’d bury you. @TRAPTOFFICIAL
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
us vs. you. same time last year. what’s up now? @TRAPTOFFICIAL https://t.co/g59La4ZhY9 pic.twitter.com/sfZ3kHhkla
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 19, 2020
i think maybe it was just too obvious. like the world collectively thought it, and just figured someone else would make it? funny still, good work https://t.co/Tg3cf03QH5
— Justin Toguys (@RILEY_CYRUS) March 20, 2020
The entire situation is absolutely bonkers and frankly, disgusting. We have no idea how it’ll shake out. It’s certainly helping to pass the time during this quarantine.
