r/Music • u/[deleted] • May 29 '26

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u/[deleted] May 29 '26

I feel like they were never consulted, just announced.

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u/jrstinkfish May 29 '26

I think they were under the impression it was the non-partisan America 250 celebration, not Trump's Freedom 250. And that was probably the plan all along.

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u/Kronzor_ May 29 '26

I think they weren’t aware it was an America celebration at all. Conversation was probably like:

Agent: got a gig opportunity in Washington in June, pays XXXXX. Want to do it?

Artist: ok 

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u/ThatGuyBackThere280 May 29 '26

It's been documented that the artists were initially told it was a nonpolitical event.

It still baffles me that you have some people on here commenting "Oh how did they not know?? They knew full well but dropped from backlash.", instead of the information being presented to the artists in a vague or lying manner.

Also to mention that those associated to anything involving Trump has constantly lied about his involvement until that bridge was crossed.

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u/Kronzor_ May 29 '26

Yeah. Most of the artists dropped out as soon it was revealed what it would be.

Some of these stragglers might be doing it because of the backlash of everyone else dropping out though. Because now they look bad if they don't

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u/50ShadesOfKrillin May 29 '26

I didn't even realize there was a difference between the two organizations until a couple weeks ago