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Showing Original Post only (View all)Eric Clapton Appears Frustrated With Covid-19 Vaccine on New Song 'This Has Gotta Stop' [View all]
Rolling StoneIn what appears to be his latest salvo against Covid-19 vaccinations and the lockdown, Eric Clapton has surprise-released a new single, This Has Gotta Stop, with an accompanying animated video that also addresses climate change disaster.
A bluesy shuffle, This Has Gotta Stop appears to reference some of the medical issues that Clapton said he experienced after receiving an AstraZeneca vaccination earlier this year with what he claimed were disastrous results: My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, he wrote at the time. As he sings in This Has Gotta Stop, I knew that something was going on wrong/When you started laying down the law/I cant move my hands, I break out in sweat/I wanna cry, I cant take it anymore. In the chorus he sings, This has gotta stop/Enough is enough/I cant take this BS any longer.
Written by Clapton, the song features drummer Sonny Emery and longtime Clapton bassist Nathan East, and backup singer Sharon White, and was produced by Simon Climie, another part of Claptons team. A spokesperson for Clapton said there were no plans at the moment for a full album to follow.
The video includes images of people turned into marionettes or staring zombie-style at their phones; politicians or government officials addressing crowds; and others holding signs that say Liberty and Enough Is Enough. It also includes an illustration of Jam for Freedom, the anti-lockdown UK street-performer group that Clapton supports, as well as imagery of a world on fire from environment disaster.
A bluesy shuffle, This Has Gotta Stop appears to reference some of the medical issues that Clapton said he experienced after receiving an AstraZeneca vaccination earlier this year with what he claimed were disastrous results: My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, he wrote at the time. As he sings in This Has Gotta Stop, I knew that something was going on wrong/When you started laying down the law/I cant move my hands, I break out in sweat/I wanna cry, I cant take it anymore. In the chorus he sings, This has gotta stop/Enough is enough/I cant take this BS any longer.
Written by Clapton, the song features drummer Sonny Emery and longtime Clapton bassist Nathan East, and backup singer Sharon White, and was produced by Simon Climie, another part of Claptons team. A spokesperson for Clapton said there were no plans at the moment for a full album to follow.
The video includes images of people turned into marionettes or staring zombie-style at their phones; politicians or government officials addressing crowds; and others holding signs that say Liberty and Enough Is Enough. It also includes an illustration of Jam for Freedom, the anti-lockdown UK street-performer group that Clapton supports, as well as imagery of a world on fire from environment disaster.
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Eric Clapton Appears Frustrated With Covid-19 Vaccine on New Song 'This Has Gotta Stop' [View all]
brooklynite
Aug 2021
OP
I heard one of his songs on the radio yesterday and I changed the station
Clash City Rocker
Aug 2021
#3
He needs to re-release his song, "Cocaine" to help folks understand his medical credentials
gulliver
Aug 2021
#6