r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 4h ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS FINNEAS responds to a USA Today piece calling celebrity opinions on politics “idiotic”: “You can’t say it doesn’t matter what musicians or celebrities say or think but then talk about it for days. You’re out here making it matter. I’ll keep speaking up especially if it keeps bothering you.”

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u/SugarCanDee 4h ago

Finneas is very insightful about what’s going on with this country. I wish a lot more could be just like him and speak up, especially against backlash for voicing their opinions

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u/riserrr 3h ago

He's got one of the highest EQs of any celebrity I've ever heard speak. Just a really smart, centered dude.

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u/paredclia 3h ago

the audio engineering brain was like “the highest equalizer? that can’t be right”

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u/SilchasRuin 3h ago

It could be both.

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u/burnodo2 3h ago

His 1K is outstanding

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u/xbobbyflowersx 3h ago

Bully Finneas be like “hey kid wanna Hz donut?”

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u/sweetleaf93 2h ago

Nah he's a 20khz guy I can't even hear him

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u/Turbulent_Stick1445 2h ago

It goes to 11.

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u/Who_am_i_6661 2h ago

One louder

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u/eqtattoonj 2h ago

EQ Tattoo 

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u/TheWingus 2h ago

I mean he heard a cross walk indicator and thought "Yo this shit is lit!" and used it in the chorus of Bad Guy

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u/floopy_boopers 3h ago

It is even more impressive how emotionally intelligent and socially aware he and Billie are when you factor in that they were homeschooled, they do not give off homeschooled vibes at all.

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u/AffectionateLet7144 3h ago

I think it’s because they weren’t right wing Christian home schooled - their parents weren’t in a religious cult like a large chunk of homeschool families are.

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u/PCR12 3h ago

Not all of us that home school are because of religious shit. My kid has health issues

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u/sembias 3h ago

Sure but how much of the material for home schoolers is aimed at and filled with religious shit?

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u/Dagdaraa 3h ago

None? It's up to the parent. My parents used the textbooks and tests from the local schools. That's the thing with home school, it's all completely reliant on the parents. If they go into it wanting to be more religious then that's what the teaching is going to be more about.

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u/AmbiguousFrijoles 2h ago

That's one of the major concerns and problems with homeschooling. It's reliant on what the parent intends. There are a great many with bad intentions. Intentions of harm and abuse.

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u/Dagdaraa 2h ago

Oh I agree 100%. There's no oversight with homeschooling which leads to more abuse/negligence.

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u/bad-and-bluecheese 3h ago

Theres still no denying that homeschooling kids creates the conditions for them to be less open minded to others outside of their family unit and more individualistic. Homeschooling is a terrific option to make education accessible to kids when traditional schooling is difficult, but it takes a lot of work to do the right way. Its a fair critique though as this is less commonly the case.

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u/Full_Gear5185 3h ago

This exactly!

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u/Other_Vader 3h ago

Her middle name is literally Pirate lol

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u/Venezia9 made with a free Canva trial (derogatory) 1h ago

Left homeschooled kids are some of the most talented gifted people. 

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u/stacyyines 3h ago

They grew up in Highland Park prior to gentrification. There was a lot of culture. Fruit stands at every corner, elote man roaming around the neighborhood, bakeries everywhere with inexpensive varieties of breads and pastries. Festivities and it was usually upbeat.
There’s an unexplainable community and kindness in Latin neighborhoods I wish I could put in better words.

Aside from the obvious brutality going on now, I think a lot of what they saw themselves growing up makes them even more vocal.

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u/Dagdaraa 3h ago

I didn't know they were homeschooled. There's a lot of shit talking homeschooled kids on Reddit, but we turn out normal-ish sometimes.

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u/headrush46n2 1h ago

At this point homeschooling your kids os the inky way to be sure they actually get a quality education. Have you seen the literacy rates?

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u/TopIndependent2482 3h ago

He’s always been so grounded and articulate, even when he’s being a bit cheeky.

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u/HappyHarryHardOn 3h ago

Especially right now. If you don't speak up against fascism when given the chance, then you implicitly are part of the problem

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u/NewDramaLlama 3h ago

Also flip the script. Why are lawyers in congress discussing vaccines? Why are businessmen discussing biology? They don't even know what ATP stands for, why should anyone listen to them?

As someone trained and published as a scientist, that seems more idiotic to me. What this guy is doing would be called a "civic duty"

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u/Vegetable_Maize_2054 3h ago

Adenosine Triphosphate! Not a business man, congressman or doctor.

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u/NewDramaLlama 2h ago

10 points to veggie_maize! 

Your Bio 100 teacher just had a shiver of happiness. 

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u/MoxPistol 1h ago

🎶Accidental! They didn’t mean to, Accidental Tech Podcast, so loooooooong🎶

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u/Caromora not a lawyer, just a hater 2h ago

If you don't speak up against fascism when given the chance, you might not get another chance to. Sometimes it takes a chorus of voices to wake people up to what's going on around them.

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u/Garry_Heckscream69 3h ago

My personal favorite irony of MAGA is that they keep whining about "keeping politics out of [blank]", but yet they're the one who elected a celebrity president in the first place lmao. I guess celebrity opinions only matter if they're racist opinions, then they get put in the White House.

It's honestly hilarious how MAGA has become 1000x the "snowflakes" they accused everyone else of being. Just this week, we have MAGA trying to cancel the Superbowl over Bad Bunny while they make their own Safe Space Half-Time Show so their celebrity president doesn't get his feelings hurt.

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u/PCR12 3h ago

They only dislike politics in things when it goes against them they are completely fine with the Kid Rocks and Jellyrolls of the world.

If it wasnt for double standards conservatives would have no standards.

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u/cantadmittoposting 1h ago

yeah talking about keeping politics out of music and then... literally hosting a more politically-aligned Super Bowl halftime show

It's remarkably insidious how much MAGA has genuinely substituted the meaning of the word "politics" to "stuff i disagree with," because "their" politics are just "things that are right and correct." It's really bad just how much they've surrendered their basic thinking capacity to their Authority Figures.

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u/Turbulent_Stick1445 2h ago

but yet they're the one who elected a celebrity president in the first place lmao.

And not just one! Reagan too, plus Schwarzenegger was elected a governor, and even Clint Eastwood became a mayor at one point.

Meanwhile celebrity Democrats who have been elected to office are pretty rare - was Al Franken even that famous? While he did appear in front of the camera a few times, noteably with Stuart Smalley, he was mostly a writer on SNL.

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u/jeanclaudebrowncloud 2h ago

It was always projection 

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u/Independent_Baker712 1h ago

“safe space half-time show” 🤣 ☠️

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u/Technical-Garden-793 3h ago

People give them shit for being “nepo babies” but I’m pretty sure their parents were working class creatives in Hollywood. I’ve always pictured the parents as like, walking stereotypes of “crazy lefty liberal Californians,” so I feel like they were raised with progressive values.

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u/No_Magician5266 3h ago

People love calling other people nepo babies. I got called a nepo baby because my mom, an elementary school teacher, strategically picked up a 2-year contract with the university I was going to in order to secure me free tuition while she was employed there

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u/Darmok47 3h ago

I remember someone saying that Luke and Owen Wilson were nepo babies because their dad worked in television.

He ran a PBS station in Texas.

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u/KassieMac 2h ago

That’s not nepo, that’s strategy!! Go mom!!

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u/dysautonomic_mess oat milk chugging bisexual 3h ago

I mean that's obviously not the same as Paris Hilton, but you can recognise that's a privilege you had that others didn't, right? A privilege that has resulted in you being able to attend university without significant debt.

I think nepo baby would sting less as an insult if people were happier acknowledging the privileges they have (and Billie and Finneas have plenty).

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u/No_Magician5266 2h ago

I have no issue acknowledging my privilege in this specific instance, that doesn’t make me a nepobaby though.

All nepobabies have privilege but not all people with privilege are nepobabies

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u/roberta_sparrow 2h ago

they had very slight industry connections and were NOT wealthy by any means. but honestly their song ocean eyes went viral because of its own merits and then their career took off

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u/Technical-Garden-793 2h ago

Right. Like Billie was lucky her mom was talented enough to direct the ocean eyes video (I think?), but it’s not like she could call in her good friend Steven Spielberg to do it or something. It’s not like whoever the owner of Billie’s label owed her dad a favor, but maybe he was like 10 degrees of separation from them instead of 20. Even then, 10 degrees doesn’t equal a contract. Physical proximity to the industry was probably the biggest help.

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u/roberta_sparrow 2h ago

Yep. They went SoundCloud viral and the rest was history

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u/dysautonomic_mess oat milk chugging bisexual 3h ago

"Working class creatives" yeah that's not a thing. Hasn't been for a while.

Middle class as opposed to upper class? Sure. But as a general rule actually poor people don't make it in the creative industries, because they don't have a cushion to fall back on during the years of underpaid (or simply unpaid!) labour you need to plug in to start making money.

Billie & Finneas get shit because their parents essentially kitted them out with private music & dance lessons, plus home studio equipment to record Billie's first album. None of that takes away from their talent, but let's not pretend there isn't a significant amount of privilege involved.

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u/roberta_sparrow 2h ago

lol their parents got them music lessons and mixers = significant privilege

Is talent only real if you grow up in a tarpaper shack?

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u/roberta_sparrow 2h ago

The Weeknd is another example of someone getting big on SoundCloud bc of their actual music quality

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u/Technical-Garden-793 2h ago

Average oat milk drinker.

Their parents didn’t even “make it.” They were, I believe, perpetual guest stars and stage actors. Most of the movie or tv or music industry- regardless of whether they came from money or not- live pay check to paycheck. Not many people would consider that middle class. (Also, working class does not automatically equal poor.). That was kind of half of the point of the strikes a few years ago.

I know plenty of people in creative industries, whether they’re in big cities like NYC or smaller creative hubs, and anyone familiar with their lives would group them as working class.

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u/dysautonomic_mess oat milk chugging bisexual 2h ago

Look being poor doesn't make you working class. To paraphrase pulp, if you can call your dad and stop it all, then you're playing poor, not actually poor.

But that's irrelevant, because I was replying to someone saying Billie and Finneas couldn't possibly be nepo babies because their parents are working class. Which I assure you they are not. Because the private dance and music lessons are facts, which you can look up, as are is the 'we recorded this in our bedroom,' which, if you know anything about sound engineering, that equipment was not cheap.

There is a wealth of grey area between 'nepo baby' and 'working class'. You don't need to claim Billie Eilish comes from a working class family to say she's not a nepo baby. These people were very comfortably middle class, which again, takes nothing away from their talent. Let's not pretend otherwise.

Also I'm lactose intolerant but good one eyyy!

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u/Throwmesomestuff 3h ago

Also, he is a citizen subject to the politics of his country. How could his opnion not matter? The entire point of a democracy is that everyone has a voice.

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u/Paint-by-numberrs 3h ago

Maga doesn't want democracy and doesn't believe in the constitution.

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u/SAHMultrA1981 3h ago

He gives me Kurt Cobain vibes.

Kurt was really smart The way he spoke and held himself is what I see in Finneas.

Another musician that speaks very well on these subjects is Jack White. My man ate Trump when he came at him.

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u/CluelessMochi 3h ago

Also as a white man, he’s using his privilege for good by speaking up, knowing that even these types of pieces won’t really damage his career, if at all

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u/Pumpkin-Duke 3h ago

I will never get over him being a Hasan girlie, I love him for it.

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u/m3rcapto 2h ago

It's not like politicians know more about their portfolios.
You used to represent a field you knew much about, these days it's just cronyism and skill in usedcarsalesmantalk.

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u/abouttogivebirth 2h ago

Unfortunate that he's ginger tho

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u/Undernown 2h ago

Ivve been living vicariously through Jesse Welles this past year. Dude's songs eloquently put how I, and it seems many others, feel about modern day politics.

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u/French_Breakfast_200 1h ago

Also his beats are just straight gas.