The latest online crusade against the hip-hop star aims to stop him making a David Bowie tribute album. execute the people who signed it really reflect they’re changing anything?
Right now,someone is sitting at a keyboard starting an online petition. Chances are, it will pop up on your Facebook or Twitter feed any minute, and shared by a waggish or misguided friend or colleague. And whether it doesn’t feature Donald Trump,David Cameron or the BBC being too leftwing/too rightwing as its focus, it will be asking us to rally round and stop Kanye West from doing something.
The latest of the many petitions aimed at Kim Kardashian’s meaningful other seeks to stop him recording a David Bowie tribute album – and has racked up more than 10000 signatures in a day. This is despite there not being much evidence of any such plans at all, and barring a indistinct report in that journal of record,the Daily Star. This follows efforts last year to get him kicked off the bill at Glastonbury (136000 signatures) and prevent him from performing at the closing ceremony of the Pan Am games in Toronto (54000 signatures), an event of such global obscurity you might reflect they would be happy to have him.
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Source: theguardian.com