In a new conversation with U.K.’s Sunday Times, Eddie Vedder said he targeted Donald Trump in his new Pearl Jam song.
The singer referred to the song ‘Wreckage’ from the band’s latest album, ‘Dark Matter’ and said:
“There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true. Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy.”
Vedder Continues Criticizing Trump
He further talked about the inspiration behind the track:
“It is all on the line, and he’s out there playing the victim — ‘at least they’re doing this to me, because if not, they would be doing it to you’ — but you haven’t falsified your tax records. You don’t have classified information in your basement. So the song is saying, let’s not be driven apart by one person, especially not a person without any worthy causes.”
In their 2020 album ‘Gigaton,’ Pearl Jam criticized Trump one more time in the song ‘Quick Escape.’ The lyrics tell a sci-fi story where Earth is ruined, and people escape to Mars because Trump messed things up.
Mike McCready Is Also Not A Fan Of Trump
Earlier this year, Pearl Jam’s guitarist Mike McCready also said it wouldn’t be good for the United States if Trump wins the upcoming elections:
“Oh god. Well, if Trump got elected, that’d be the worst thing in the world to me. I’d rather think about the best things that can happen. We have to come together. We have to be compassionate. We have to take care of the environment. We have to not be racist. We have to not be idiots. There’s all these things we can do. But we have to choose to think that way.”
Vedder has never been a fan of Trump and has made it clear at concerts. Their song ‘Can’t Deny Me’ is thought to be about Trump, too. Once, during a show in Amsterdam, the vocalist called Trump ‘crazy like a narcissistic motherf*cker.’
Pearl Jam’s latest record, ‘Dark Matter,’ just arrived on April 19. Vedder wrote the lyrics of all eleven songs on the album. The band’s tour to promote it starts May 4 in Vancouver, Canada. They’ll go through the U.S. and then head to the U.K. and Europe. In August, they’ll be back in the U.S. and finish with shows in Australia in November.
