Maynard James Keenan Thanos snaps Taylor Swift with meme celebrating Worry Inoculum hitting No. 1
It’s not terribly stunning that Device’s new album, Worry Inoculum, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. After 13 years of anticipation, followers have been understandably desirous to devour the report. Because the LP’s dominance was asserted, frontman Maynard James Keenan celebrated victory by tweeting out a Thanos meme that includes the earlier week’s chart-topper, Taylor Swift.
The picture places Keenan within the position of the Avengers’ purple-faced foe, with Swift being one of many blipped. He merely captioned it, “Heh,” including the hashtags #comedyfirstandalways #lightenuporjogon. He even went as far as to tag Swift within the submit, which inevitably introduced out the fad of the Swifties, lots of whom nonetheless do not know who Device are. In fact, Worry Inoculum did really overtake Lover on the charts, so certainly they’re studying.
In a wierd method, this single tweet is a convergence of all the pieces that’s 2019. Right here we now have nostalgia-inducing heavy rockers returning after an extended drought to face down a pop megastar who dominates headlines and the social media panorama. Billboard is the battleground, with Swifties rallying on streaming companies to thrust back the encroaching… um, Toolers. The elder musician wields each millennial’s favourite weapon, a meme, with a careless copy-and-post as a substitute of the extra deft retweet, but he nonetheless scores a blow by referencing the insanely widespread Avengers franchise. It’s all our Web-fueled progress colliding with its personal inanity within the fingers of an artist born on the tail finish of the child growth. It’s, oddly, perfection.
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This isn’t even the primary time Keenan has used an Avengers meme to touch upon Device, nor the primary time he’s commented on a pop star through Twitter. Now that he’s thrown the second Infinity gauntlet, let’s see if he can face up to the mixed tweeted rage of Beliebers and Swifties.
Heh. #comedyfirstandalways #lightenuporjogon @taylorswift13 @puscifer @Device pic.twitter.com/RSGKXaZvJV
— Maynard J Keenan (@mjkeenan) September 7, 2019