re: Singer Aaron Lewis says "I'm American, I don't speak Spanish" walks off stage early

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Well, now would that have been too much to ask of him to do the same?

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frick that. That's not what he's there to do.

You're being a fricking idiot. And I'll bet I listen to way more latino music than you.

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know the words to it. Ditto the Macarena and La Bamba.

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The ONLY lyrics people know to la bamba are



A LA LA LAAAAA LA BAMBA

A LA LA LAAAAAA LA BAMBA

That’s it...

As to the Macarena...

AYYYYYY MACARENA AYEE!!!

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frick that. That's not what he's there to do.

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What is he not there to do? Possibly respond graciously to a fan request? OK, if you say so.

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You're being a fricking idiot.

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Hey, foxnews is the one who outed him as insulting mexicans. All I said is that his remark was a stupid non sequitur (although doesn't seem much of a stretch to think he meant it as an insult.)

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And I'll bet I listen to way more latino music than you.

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Probably so, since I'm American.

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"I'm American therefore I only speak English" is an illogical statement to you?

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Yes

That's obviously an illogical statement

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I've heard of them. I don't know them. I certainly couldn't perform them in front of a large crowd.

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Right. That was all I could come up with. I guess, I could throw in La Bamba.

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Why don't you sing every word of these songs and interpretations then?

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wut

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Certainly 10s of millions of Americans speak Spanish. Their primary language is Spanish.

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And tens of millions more (if not hundreds of millions) have had more than just passing exposure to Spanish via school and other media.

I would guess that being American actually correlates positively and highly with having some familiarity with Spanish.

It might have been more accurate if he had said "I'm an outlier, in that I'm American, but still don't speak any Spanish."

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I said it was a non sequitur...do you know what that even means? He was asked to sing something in Spanish...and he replied that he didn't speak Spanish.

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A comment that doesn't follow the logic of the conversation.

How is what he said non-sequitur?

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How is what he said non-sequitur?

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Because speaking Spanish has nothing to do with singing a song in Spanish. Seriously, this isn't that hard.

But even to take it down your path - it does not even come near to necessarily following that since he is American, he doesn't speak Spanish.

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Singer Aaron Lewis says "I'm American, I don't speak Spanish" walks off stage early

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BamaRep gonna BamaRep. Typical disingenuous thread title.

"Singer Aaron Lewis walks off stage because crowd will not shut up." Good for Lewis.

The whole Spanish language reference is utterly irrelevant to his decision to end the concert.


As an aside, I wonder what type of "concert" this was. A couple of years ago, I attended an acoustic thing with Cody Canada, where he had a similar problem. It was basically a catered meal, followed by the acoustic set, and one table just would NOT stop talking and listen after dinner. Canada said something off-hand and very politely a couple of times, but they did not seem to get it. Another guy and I went over and explained the matter a bit more explicitly. They shut up, and the rest of the evening was great.