‘It destroyed me’: two more men accuse Christian rock star Michael Tait of sexual assault

[ladybutterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone]

The founding manager of rock band Evanescence claims he was fired after reporting that Tait assaulted him. An Evanescence co-founder denies he was fired for that reason

[harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

So, Evanescence goes onto the garbage list now.

[kyrgizion@lemmy.world]

My dyslexic brain somehow read that as "Chris Rock".

[devolution@lemmy.world]

“Rape me to life”

[mbech@feddit.dk]

I'm not entirely sure this can be put on the band. They were young people who had no idea how to handle or even see what was going on.

[thepowerofgeek@lemmy.world]

Agreed. This is more a combination of naive people being exploited by a sexual predator, and the tragic ripple effects of that.

But that said, I just looked up a history of Evanescence, and there appeared to be a lot of problems in their first incarnation. Some of that might be the effects of the abuse their male band members and management suffered. But there was also a lot of bad blood between Lee and Moody that seemed to predate Tait's abuse.

[protist@mander.xyz]

Reading this article, is that your takeaway from this? The band doesn't seem to have had much at all to do with it

[draegur@lemmy.zip]

ID verification won't protect anyone from rapists like him.

But it just might protect PREDATORS from CONSEQUENCES by suppressing public knowledge of their crimes.

Jesus fucking Christ we need to riot.

[chiliedogg@lemmy.world]

When I was young, I went to several concerts for DC Talk (his band at the time) and the Newsboys (the band he became the frontman for).

While I'm still religious, I've since become an outspoken critic of corporate Christianity. Having a bunch of rich people singing pop songs to arenas full of people paying hundreds of dollars each with million-dollar lighting systems spotlighting the singers doesn't feel very humble and spiritual.

So it's fair to say I already had issues with this dude for profiteering of people's faith. With the newest revelations, I'm shaking with rage. This assholes and those who hid his actions pretended to be faithful servants while destroying lives and raking in profits and praise. They pretended to be exemplars of goodness so they could establish implicit trust, then used that trust to violate others.

Fuck them all.

[captainlezbian@lemmy.world]

Yeah this seems like one member was put in an awkward position at a young age and didn't have the understanding he now does. He did harm but seemingly unwillingly

[glifted@lemmy.world]

We need to do more than riot

[fredselfish@lemmy.world]

So again not drag queens. Always the ones we know do this.

[ch3dd4r_g0bl1n@sh.itjust.works]

Nirvana x Evanescence: a cursed YouTube mashup of there ever was one

[sylvieslayer@lemmy.world]

Jeeeeezus Christ. I'm printing copies of this article, taping them to bricks and launching them at anyone who tries to accuse the queens or queers of this shit

[aceshigh@lemmy.world]

Yeah. How very predictable. At this point if I hear a loud Christian, I just assume they’re doing something really awful.

[captnnmorgan@lemmy.world]

My AuDHD brain assumed Chris was just short for Christian before I got past the word 'star' and also read it as Chris Rock

[lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com]

While those accusations sound bad, doesn't Evanescence sound worse?
Criminally bad?

[lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com]

You mean it wasn't there already?