‘Career over’: Aussie rocker cops backlash

Australian singer-songwriter Hayley Mary has sparked vicious backlash aft she posted wearing a pro-Trump MAGA headdress connected societal media.

Mary, who is some a solo creator and the pb vocalist of critically acclaimed set The Jezabels, has claimed that she’s mislaid friends, fans, followers and adjacent members of her ain team.

The Jezabels formed successful 2007 and went connected to bask a hugely palmy vocation arsenic a band, winning an ARIA Music Award, an Australian Music Prize and 3 Australian Independent Record Awards.

She claims she wore the arguable shot headdress to protestation Australia’s Misinformation Bill.

“The MAGA chapeau was for daze value,” she told Herald Sun. “Without it, it would person been a precise adust station astir a Misinformation Bill … that no-one would person seen oregon discussed.”

However, Mary’s MAGA infinitesimal has sparked industry-wide outrage and she claims it’s gotten her “cancelled”.

“The fallout was everything you could imagine. I astir apt nary longer person a euphony vocation successful the mode that I knew it,” she said.

“I’ve mislaid immoderate friends, though I anticipation that’s temporary. I’ve mislaid immoderate of the infrastructure of my business; publicity, set members, unit members, a show, my medium launch, immoderate gross and rather a fewer followers.”

The vocalist said she has adjacent had a venue cancel 1 of her planned shows implicit the post.

“I was alert of what would happen. But I deliberation the (Misinformation) Bill is unsafe capable to hazard my vocation over.”

“I cognize the MAGA question is antithetic things to antithetic people, but (it besides represents) the president of the escaped satellite and 73 cardinal radical voted for him, truthful I’m not definite if we request to alteration our narration with it.”

She said the harshest reactions person travel from the “usual suspects”, adding: “They person spent their lives trying to bully radical retired of careers. The irony is, I’ve … cancelled myself. There’s thing for you to bash here.”

Mr Trump’s astonishment predetermination triumph has sparked a divisive absorption astir the world successful caller days.

The Jezabels, who person been connected hiatus since 2017, see pb vocalist Hayley Mary, guitarist Sam Lockwood, pianist and keyboardist Heather Shannon, and drummer and percussionist Nik Kaloper.

The band’s 3 albums each charted wrong the apical 5 connected the ARIA medium illustration upon release, and were well-reviewed by euphony critics.