Alex Lora does not bite his tongue (especially with Trump involved)
Alex Lora himself, the rocker who soundtracked your parents’ parties (and now yours, because good rock has no age), came out to give a verbal beating to the ICE raids. Yes, that organism that seems taken from a dystopian episode of Black Mirror, but in real life and with less empathy. Between sips of coffee (or perhaps something stronger), the lead singer of El Tri dropped pearls such as that Mexicans are the ones who “give life to the products” of the United States, while the government responds to them with deportations. Irony? Level: “thanks for building our country, now get out.”.
But not only that. Lora also complained that artists like Julión Álvarez have their visas canceled for… making music? “They go overboard,” he said, with that elegance that only a rock veteran can afford. And yes, because if there is something that hurts more than a mezcal hangover, it is when an artist is denied the stage for political reasons. #FreeTheMusic.
Schwarzenegger also enters the ring (and it’s not a movie)
While Lora sang “Triste Canción” in protest mode, Arnold Schwarzenegger (yes, the one from “I’ll be back”) joined the debate with the subtlety of a tank. The former governor of California, who seems to have tired of destroying robots to focus on destroying political arguments, said that Democrats and Republicans are equally useless on the immigration issue. “They use it to raise funds,” he said, while half the world nodded thinking: “Thank you, Captain Obvious.”.
And if that were not enough, Arnold also complained that the media paints Los Angeles as a “war zone”. Spoiler: it is not. Unless you count the pitched battles over the last avocado at Whole Foods. But that’s another topic.
Moral: art and politics always collide (and sometimes even catch on)
Between commemorative cell phones (yes, Lora is now also a tech influencer) and songs dedicated to parents, what is clear is that migration is not a game. And when figures like Lora and Schwarzenegger speak, even if it is with opposite styles (rock vs. action), the message is the same: something stinks in the system. And no, it’s not just the smoke from the amplifiers.
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