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And Finally Artist News
Tyler, The Creator bids farewell to Theresa May
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 28 May 2019
In these days of political collapse, climate disaster and Nigel fucking Farage, the news can be a pretty depressing place to drift into. And as everything gets more and more complicated, trying to even remotely stay up to date with what’s going on can take up hours out of your daily schedule.
What we need is someone who can cut through the noise and the nonsense to get to the really important information in any one news story. Thankfully, we have Tyler, The Creator, who tweeted last week: “Theresa gone, I’m back”.
Such efficiency of words, of the sort we’ve come to expect from the man who wrote the immortal line, “my bitch suck dick like she suck dick”. The tweet was, of course, a reference to Theresa May coming to the end of her three year resignation tour, just as Tyler ended his four year failed attempt to tour the UK. Which is to say, Theresa has resigned and Tyler is allowed to gig in this United Kingdom once again after a visa ban was finally lifted.
The connection is relevant, of course, because it was Theresa May who decided that the rapper should not be allowed to enter the UK in 2015, due to the content of some of his lyrics. Not so much the one above, more those like another line from the same track, “by the way, we do punch bitches”.
May’s decision came several years after Tyler had started performing such lines in the UK, and – he argued – quite a long time after he’d stopped saying that sort of thing and moved on to a more palatable style. While Tyler does, of course, sometimes court controversy, May’s visa ban may well have been part of the then Home Secretary’s life-long dream of ensuring that only people born in Oxfordshire are allowed to set foot on UK soil.
After she finally moves out of Downing Street on 7 Jun, May will have more time on her hands. Perhaps she could attend one of Tyler, The Creator’s upcoming UK shows in September. Maybe they could even meet backstage, so he could argue why he believes barring him from the country was unfair, and she could try to get him to support her Brexit deal, as I’m sure she’ll be doing with everyone she meets for many years to come.
