The nation music star Brantley Gilbert, who not too long ago toured with the steel band Five Finger Death Punch, confirmed his disdain for the beer Bud Light throughout a live performance in Alabama on Saturday (April 15).
The nation singer did so throughout a cowl of a Queen track, apparently unaware of the irony.
Currently, conservatives are in an uproar after Bud Light this month partnered with the transgender social media character Dylan Mulvaney, the influencer who made a collection of movies known as “365 Days of Girlhood” about her gender transition, as CBS News reported.
Subsequently, the American proper has known as for a boycott of the Anheuser-Busch model, even supposing the brewing firm has lengthy introduced itself as LGBTQ-friendly, in keeping with Newsweek.
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Still, Gilbert — the star himself does not drink — made the onstage assertion in opposition to Bud Light, violently throwing a can of the beer to the ground, as fan-captured footage reveals. According to Taste of Country, it occurred throughout Gilbert’s cowl model of Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust,” a 1980 rock hit led by a famously flamboyant homosexual performer, the late Freddie Mercury, making the transfer unquestionably ironic.
Brantley Gilbert Demolishes Bud Light Can
The video shared on TikTok finds Gilbert with the beer can already in his hand. As his band performs a hard-edged model of “Another One Bites the Dust,” Gilbert says, “Yeah, f–k that,” and throws the can to the bottom. The beer can explodes to cheers from the gang.
After that, Gilbert is tossed one other beer in a silver can. He throws it to his drummer and urges him to shotgun it. As Taste of Country reported, the host of the podcast Dear America, Graham Allen, re-shared the video on Instagram. There, Gilbert commented on it with two shrug emojis and stated, “miss you brother.”
As seen under in an instance of help the Bud Light boycott has obtained, a fan re-shared Allen’s submit on Instagram, including, “No @budlight in this camp.”
Brantley Gilbert smashes beer can
Bud Light’s Response to Boycott
Last week, per ABC News, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth launched a press release that stated, partly, “We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer.” See it under.
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