Did Anyone Actually Go To The Buju Show That We Worked So Hard To Cancel?
Alright, since the debate over Buju Banton won't stop at The Stranger and has in fact infected the P-I as well, and since Seattlest has been named both generally ("other city bloggers") and specifically ("Seattlest") as a contributor to the cancellation of the Buju show at Neumo's, perhaps we should say something.
I tried hard to dance around a call for Neumo's to cancel the show outright in my post because I assumed that they had booked him innocently and would lose a lot of money if they broke their contract. What I wanted was for no one to attend a Buju Banton concert innocently. Well, what I wanted was for no one to attend a Buju Banton concert at all, but since it was going to go on and there were a lot of tickets sold, I wanted people who may not be aware that "Boom Bye Bye" is about the shooting of fags to know that it was an intolerant and hateful song, because if you don't know what the song is about and you book the band or buy a ticket or a CD, then whatever. What can you do? But if you do know what the song is about and you do know that he still plays it and still stands by it and you still book the band or buy a ticket or a CD, then you're an asshole. Like if you read all the blog posts on Buju over the past few days and you still went to the show at its new location because, "he hates fags but some of his songs still rock," than you're an asshole, and if Seattlest participated in any witch hunts over this deal then Buju fans were the target and not Neumo's (The Innocent), The Stranger (The Righteous), or even Buju (The Ignorant).
The show apparently happened last night at Studio Seven instead of at Neumos where it was initially scheduled, but so far we haven't heard a single account of what went down there. Either Buju fans aren't blog readers (highly possible) or we managed to convince everyone that this show wasn't worth going to (improbable).
