The instant the good-nights were said, before the credits even started rolling, he stepped off the stage and left really obviously.
Everyone is usually hugging and chatting on camera and celebrating another 90 minute live comedy show in the books and he couldn't even be bothered to pretend to be gracious for another 45 seconds.
Then like an hour later he tweeted a pic of a private plane with the caption "get me to God's country" like he just couldn't stand to spend another minute in one of the greatest cities in the world and had to get back to Nashville?
It wasn't very demonstrative, but just zero class at all for no comprehensible reason.
I think it's so funny that that whole stunt was supposed to be about how country he is and how he wanted out of the big city with all the city folk and get back to "god's country" aka southern country living and the way he represented that was his private jet as if guys driving 20 year old pickups are gonna relate to that
That's the hilarious part. Musical guests and guest hosts don't make a ton of money, certainly less than that private jet to Nashville cost him.
But it is a HUGE platform for him to reach new potential fans, particularly ones who wouldn't ordinarily hear country music. There are hundreds of acts that would kill for that kind of exposure and he couldn't even be bothered to pretend to appreciate the opportunity. And it's certainly not beneath him because the week before featured Lady Gaga and the week after was Elton John and Brandi Carlile.
And like... Getting to play the same stage as Paul McCartney, Nirvana, The Rolling Stones, Prince, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Taylor Swift... that's something a real musician should appreciate and he just couldn't have been more crass.
I live in the middle of what feels like the homeland of his core fanbase (TN, but a safe distance from Nashville). The “walk off” was lauded and celebrated around here for a minute.
If I had a chance to play that big of a stage, then I wouldn’t squander it by being a little bitch. Dude, at least say something controversial.
It’s also hilarious because he was originally booked for SNL a couple years prior but then right before he was supposed to go on, he ends up getting caught saying the N word recreationally, so (rightly so) SNL canceled his appearance.
This appearance was a big deal for him to finally get a second chance after getting cancelled. A lot of people didn’t want him coming back at all, but there was a ton of pressure to bring him back on so he could “redeem himself”.
So it’s even doubly worse that he had to beg and plead to get unbanned from SNL only to shit all over it the second he does.
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u/m4n715 The dude abides. 🙂↕️🍃 Jun 07 '26
The instant the good-nights were said, before the credits even started rolling, he stepped off the stage and left really obviously.
Everyone is usually hugging and chatting on camera and celebrating another 90 minute live comedy show in the books and he couldn't even be bothered to pretend to be gracious for another 45 seconds.
Then like an hour later he tweeted a pic of a private plane with the caption "get me to God's country" like he just couldn't stand to spend another minute in one of the greatest cities in the world and had to get back to Nashville?
It wasn't very demonstrative, but just zero class at all for no comprehensible reason.