Trapt is still stirring up drama with other bands after more than two weeks
One of the funnier things to come out of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has been seeing the official Trapt Twitter account and singer Chris Taylor Brown having a colossal temper tantrum online while dragging other bands into their drama and they’re back again for another round.
Whoever runs the band’s Twitter account decided today (March 28) that it was a good idea to act like edge lords online again while trying to beef with Trivium, Silent Planet, and more.
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The band, best known for the 2002 hit “Headstrong,” started things off by defending Donald Trump‘s inept response to the ongoing pandemic.
It all seemingly started when Chris Evans, best known for his role as Captain America in the Marvel Universe tweeted about a Trump press conference addressing coronavirus earlier this week.
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
From there, the band went on a massive tirade with some ridiculous replies filled with a touch of racism throughout. Trapt started using the hashtags #whiteprivilegedoesnotexist and #nooneisbeingoppressedin2020 in their posts.
Why is everyone who hates on my posts totally liberal Bernie or whatever “progressive” candidate supporters who irrationally hate Trump and his supporters, ?
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
No he didn’t asshole. He said the way democrats were portraying his handling of the virus being inadequate was a hoax.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 19, 2020
Then, things kept going with musicians such as Kellin Quinn, Tillian Pearson from Dance Gavin Dance and Tyler (Telle) Smith from the Word Alive firing back at Trapt.
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
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
Dude…. ?
— K????? Q???? (@Kellinquinn) March 20, 2020
Now, the band haven’t stopped at all while staying at home. In the past couple of days, they’ve kept things going with awful tweets pointed at Silent Planet, Trivium, From Ashes To New, I Prevail and others.
It started up again with I Prevail’s guitarist shooting back at Trapt getting them to reply.
This guy again! Then who sounds like Tool and Sevendust? You’re a total idiot??♂️ You cannot say you have an original sound man. Trapt sounds nothing like Breaking Benjamin on a song like Echo. Not even close. Even headstrong’s verses are nothing like BB does. Do better man. https://t.co/2l6WElEY82
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 25, 2020
Then, From Ashes to New shot back in the midst of this. The two bands kept a back and forth of trashing Trapt which got them even more fired up about everything.
This is how liberal bands do things…. These guys see their buddies in cover band I Prevail coming to talk shit to Trapt AGAIN??♂️ I talk it back to singer of I Prevail and this is what d bag from Linkin Park cover band has to say….. Hilarious! https://t.co/7xTf4c5jvv
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 25, 2020
The taylor swift cover band I Prevail apparently say “okay boomer” these guys are like 30… ??♂️ https://t.co/xpON2mMKzc
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 25, 2020
Here’s what a linkin park cover band has to do for attention. They are shitting on many of their fans with this. Jumping on metal core and metal bandwagon, yet they are rap rock. They did this 5 days ago, then had to come at us AGAIN yesterday. You guys need attention this bad?! https://t.co/kJej17Cran
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 26, 2020
These a holes are trying to stereotype people who like the song Headatrong. Saying “Don’t be a victim” and that I refuse to acknowledge the concept of white privilege as someone who grew up with a Mexican side of the family, is not bigotry or racism in any way. Fuck these bitches https://t.co/3KBMZ8nTHE
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 26, 2020
I’m going to personally ask this guy to substantiate the BS coming out his mouth the next time I see him. He uses blanket statements like “you’re a bigot!” “you shit on people and tear them down” by calling them names after being attacked personally myself, without any examples! https://t.co/xCTe66qmK4
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 26, 2020
Coward ANOTHER great example. Do you know me? One could say the same about you being a keyboard warrior. Do you ever self reflect or all the stories about you true? Scrolling your Twitter for the last 10 days that you don’t. I could never imagine approaching situations as you do.
— ???? ????? ?? ℕ?? (@FromAshestoNew) March 26, 2020
Uh yes! I know you are too much of a coward to say which member of your band you are! You are a total bitch coward right now. Choosing to stay anonymous… Just a lil keyboard warrior looking for attention who can’t tell anyone what he actually believes in.
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 26, 2020
And of course, the band needed to inject a bit of their ridiculous ideas about gun rights and white privilege when not talking about other more successful bands.
Add to that forcing people to call people by whatever they want to be called (sure, you should, but no govt can force that), acknowledging #whiteprivilege, not being able to own any gun we want, and forcing people to believe that man is the sole reason for the climate changing!! https://t.co/XIGwKHX8Fv
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 26, 2020
They also doubled down on fighting with various members of Trivium who have been trolling Trapt the entire time.
This bass player from Metallica cover band @TriviumOfficial is obsessed with tweeting about trapt. So weird. For like a week now. Oh and it’s also weird how some metal bands get played so little on Pandora (a music site that allows people to rate music) Guess that’s why??♂️ https://t.co/TTrsqvs8BK
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 27, 2020
I knew this guy has an issue with my beliefs, ? Why so many metal and metal core bands hard core leftist Bernie bros? I don’t get it. Did they not learn anything in high school? Guess not. #dontbeavictim and defend yourself! #whiteprivilege does not exist! #trump #maga #kag2020 https://t.co/yHk3gWtrhU
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 27, 2020
https://t.co/yuLnrXCRh5 pic.twitter.com/XwRtwgDxnp
— Paolo Gregoletto (@TriviumPaolo) March 28, 2020
? . This bass player of @TriviumOfficial is obsessed with me??♂️ He just can’t stop tweeting about me…. It’s a weird! https://t.co/8X0jHPXCPq
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 27, 2020
?, now the singer of @TriviumOfficial is jumping in. This is hilarious. They took the time to photoshop “TRAPT” onto a cover of kerrang! Okay dudes! I get it! You’re a big “metal” ? band! Good for you bud! You get bullied a lot as a kid Matt? Trying to turn the tables Matt? ? https://t.co/mvl4VM0wcJ
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 28, 2020
Silent Planet gave a bit of a fun stab at Trapt which turned into an awful but still very funny to see exchange between them.
hey @TRAPTOFFICIAL heard ur a new up and coming artist do u want to open our upcoming Texas shows
— ? (@SLNTPLNT) March 27, 2020
?, we would never tour with a Christian rock band! Ya’ll are trying to be idols, ha! God doesn’t like that! Damn opportunists!
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 28, 2020
This band @SLNTPLNT has 140k listeners Spotify and 5.5k listeners Pandora. yes 5500. Pretty impressive. I think it’s more like trapt should have these guys as 2 of 4 bands on our next headline tour. Their twitter followers are dedicated AF! You’ll see? They are metal core AF too https://t.co/2iISKQgPYG
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 28, 2020
it’s true we failed at covering headstrong so instead u get lower empire sry https://t.co/vYSTKAKTbf
— ? (@SLNTPLNT) March 28, 2020
While so many bands have been rightfully trashing Trapt online, one actually is trying to stick up for them.
All That Remains vocalist Phil Labonte gave his thoughts on Trapt fighting the entire internet too.
Trapt is still fighting the whole internet huh? It’s been going on for days now hasn’t it?
— Phil. (@philthatremains) March 27, 2020
I’m not starting any of this…. People want to make fun of the band for my views or having a hit song, or defending the band in any way, that’s fine. I’m just going to hit em back??♂️
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 27, 2020
I’m sorry this is happeneing to you.
— Phil. (@philthatremains) March 27, 2020
An angry reactionary Trapt fan tried to step up to Labonte despite him being fairly apologetic to the entire situation.
You’re such a douche bag Phil. You have no room to talk shit about Trapt. All that remains never made it real big. Seeing you on Twitter made me see what a tool you are
— Christian (@drumlife85) March 28, 2020
He wasn’t talking shit. At least I didn’t take it that way
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 28, 2020
That’s fair. But his comment “I’m sorry this is happening to you” is most def him being a complete ass.
— Christian (@drumlife85) March 28, 2020
If it was that way, all good. People have said worse ?
— TRAPT (@TRAPTOFFICIAL) March 28, 2020
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