At the time of writing, it’s 12:49pm on Thursday, 12th May and Gene Simmons is still an idiot. We’ll check back in an hour or so, but we’re pretty certain the KISS bassist will still be one music’s biggest attention-loving tossers.
As some of you may recall, back in August 2014, Australian rock radio station Triple M banned the music of KISS after Simmons thought it would be sporting to tell depression sufferers “Fuck you! kill yourself.”
Simmons’ comments came shortly after the tragic death of actor and comedian Robin Williams. Simmons recently decided to show how disrespectful and all-round nasty he can be once again after labelling late pop icon Prince’s death “pathetic”.
Speaking to Newsweek, the rocker commented on the recent spate of celebrity musician deaths, saying, “Bowie was the most tragic of all because it was real sickness. All the other ones were a choice.”
Despite the fact that we still do not conclusively know what led to Prince’s death, Simmons opined that an addiction to drugs led to the icon’s demise, saying, “[Prince’s] drugs killed him. What do you think, he died from a cold?”
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“I think Prince was heads, hands and feet above all the rest of them. I thought he left [Michael] Jackson in the dust. Prince was way beyond that. But how pathetic that he killed himself. Don’t kid yourself, that’s what he did. Slowly, I’ll grant you… but that’s what drugs and alcohol is: a slow death.”
As a result of this idiocy, Triple M have now lifted the ban on KISS’ music, only to reinstate it once again. “We can’t play any less KISS than we already do, so we are unbanning them just so we can ban them again,” said Triple M Boss Mike Fitzpatrick.
“I just wish Chad Kroeger would say something stupid so I can ban Nickleback,” he joked. Whilst we’re so over the whole hating on Nickelback thing, the less Gene Simmons there is in the world the better. Even his bandmates are embarrassed.
Taking to Twitter, KISS frontman Paul Stanley apologised on behalf of Simmons (who’s since apologised himself), writing, “Embarrassed by cold clueless statements re Prince’s death. Without all the facts better to say nothing. My apologies.”
