If you’re an electronic dance music DJ, it’s safe to assume you’re either gay or extremely gay-friendly. However, if that isn’t the case, the stupidest thing you could ever do is post a semi-coherent rant on Facebook comparing homosexuality to child abuse.
Perhaps we live in the stupidest of all possible worlds, because that’s exactly the road Lithuanian producer Ten Walls (Marijus Adomaitis) decided to go down when he published some guano-insane thoughts on Facebook, including this very out-there quote:
“I remember producing music for one Lithuanian musician, who tried to wash my brain that I don’t need to be so conservative and intolerant about them. When I asked him ‘what would you do if you realized that your 16-year-old son’s browny (anus) is ripped by his boyfriend?’ Well he was silent.”
The dance community wasn’t. In response to his tirade, the “Walking with Elephants” producer was dropped by his booking agency Coda Music; Phonica Records cancelled every pre-order for his new EP, Sparta; and he was removed from the lineup for at least six dance festivals: HARD Summer, Sónar, Creamfields, Pukkelpop, PITCH, and Urban Art Forms Festival. Even Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskait chimed in with a statement: “I believe the incident benefits the state in a way that, in this country, we are becoming more and more open in our discussions about how insular we are, our intolerance of people who are different, as well as homophobia.”
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Earlier this week, Ten Walls tried making amends with another statement: “I would like to apologize to everyone I’ve let down, especially to my friends in the gay community, and my fans. I now need to take a break.”
We suspect it’ll be a long one. He can use all the free time to produce a new house track, “Last Night A DJ Destroyed His Career.”
H/t: Billboard
Milton Appleby
He’s been dropped left and right. Love all the support from artists that won’t put up with homophobia. Electronic music is big across all types of people. There is no room for archaic beliefs.
Ron W Powell
HA! Love it!
Bauhaus
“Last week I wrote a Facebook post that was wrong and completely out of character and the result was a badly written post that was unacceptable. It was never my intention to offend anyone. I’m really saddened by everything that has happened and I would like to apologise to everyone I’ve let down, especially to my friends in the gay community, and my fans.
I now need to take a break and have cancelled my upcoming shows.”
No, you’re not taking a break. You’ve been fired. YOU haven’t cancelled a damn thing, YOU have been cancelled.
Michael Mackay
Shame!
musctop
Bye Felicia.
Nik Hua
lol
Stache99
“Earlier this week, Ten Walls tried making amends with another statement: “I would like to apologize to everyone I’ve let down, especially to my friends in the gay community”
I’d have more respect for him if he just stuck to his guns and not this failed sucking up.
John Quin
Ding Dong his career is dead!
Kangol
Go crawl up in your own homophobic, ripped anus, Ten Walls! BYE, FELICIA!
Chris L. Reynolds
He completed suicide with “Homophobic”rant =I’m a frighten “Latent Homosexual,who can’t love myself!
SteveDenver
If my “16-year-old’s browny was being ripped by his boyfriend,” I would BUY THEM SOME LUBE and make sure they had plenty of condoms. Same for my 16-year-old daughter’s pinky or browny.
Looks like he just tore his own browny, shoving his head up there.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
PR damage control spins outta control at over 120 BPM (Butts Penially Mutilated)
MarionPaige
so, if nothing else, white queens can still do damage to other people’s careers. there isn’t a gay media company on the planet worth anyone’s time but, hey, gay media is ever ready to help bring down someone else (Ricky Martin, Star JOnes, Isaiah Washington, Whitney Houston … the list is endless)
MarionPaige
maybe Marijus Adomaitis can be the bottom in a gay porn to make things right with The Gays? Either that or he can just buy some ad space
DDstar1me
Wowzers!…very few people (super small amount)get to make a living doing something they love. This jerk just pissed this all away for what? Hhhhh…
Avery Alvarez
Why are these freaks always so obsessed with anus?
Why did the first place this idiot’s mind went was to a 16 year old’s anus?
Does he think about teenage anuses a lot?
Is he really that ridiculously stupid that after coming out with such a strong homophobic statement, he can just brush it off as, “oh, I totally didn’t mean any of those words I wrote. In fact, my feelings are the opposite!”
Personally I’m tired of gays getting the “child predator” rap when it’s like the vast majority of heterosexual guys, like this fool in the article.
Cam
@MarionPaige:
What is your point? That people should be forced to purchase products produced by people that advocate against their rights?
How about you folks stop jumping in to defend every anti-gay person that is ever talked about?
DarkZephyr
@MarionPaige: OK You are fired. As far as I am concerned, you no longer exist you homophobe defending back stabbing bitch.
MarionPaige
taking the time to dump on a Lithuanian DJ for something stupid he wrote on the net is probably the kind of act one does right before one just decides to start shooting random people on the street.
“all that matters is that it was some small gene mutation that disconnected them from nature and from each other …. It’s easy to hurt others when you can’t feel pain”. Jonas (Sense8) and Hall & Oates
jason smeds
And what, exactly, have the so-called “gay-friendly” DJ’s and dance music producers done for the gay community? Most of them pander to straights. They are not particularly gay-friendly.
What has David Guetta done? What has Will I Am done? What has Calvin Harris done? I am NOT saying they are homophobic but I don’t consider these guys to be particularly embracing of gay male culture. I’ve never seen images of male-male interactions in their music videos. On the contrary, they appear to be big on pandering to straights and some of their videos sometimes have half-naked women in them for gratuitous reasons.
Thumbs down to all DJ’s and dance music producers. Most of dance music has been taken over by homophobic elements.
badtungsten
On a comedic note, I think “browny” needs to enter our vocabularies immediately. Can I lick your browny? 🙂
Avery Alvarez
@MarionPaige: Nope. In fact, they’re not even comparable.
Your comment though, taking the time to dump GLBT people on the internet is what happens right before a right wing crazy shoots up a bunch of GLBT people.
Bauhaus
@DarkZephyr:
That nasty talk is HOT!
Xzamilio
Pretty sure the “musician” didn’t exist, and he just wanted to get out a point he thought was smart… needless to say, it wasn’t. Honestly, sometimes political correctness bothers me, but it doesn’t apply here at all. It’s freaking nice to see that homophobia is becoming as unacceptable as homophobia, although it is still the most acceptable form of bigotry by far, only dwarfed by discrimination/vitriol/violence towards the trans community.
Xzamilio
I mean to say “homophobia is becoming as unacceptable as R-acism.”
Don’t flag me, bro.
Saint Law
@MarionPaige: The Marion Paige troll works so hard to sound like an industry insider. And would if that industry was mental illness.
Saint Law
@jason smeds: The Jason Smeds troll on the other hand sounds like an elderly virgin driven to despair by the thought of other people’s sex lives – particularly women’s.
Saint Law
The screaming unhappiness of both never fails to make me smile.
Tracy Pope
@Saint Law: I’m not entirely convinced they’re not the same person. Reminds me how the right wingnuts cry foul if we boycott a business but if they do it’s godly.
On a happier note (one that Queerty oddly hasn’t noted) Tooji came out – no surprise – and produced a music video to celebrate his openness. One that the Marions and Jasons of the world are condemning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XSn6RfeefI
ScottOnEarth
“My friends in the gay community.” Um, you don’t have any.
Lonnie Campbell
What a god awful thing to say about us. It really sickens me. I’m happy to see all the support from artists that won’t tolerate this bullshit.
MarionPaige
There is this little DJ JOKE in the Netflix Series Sense8, which is a little weird because the production seemingly used or employed one or more DJs to create the club scenes in the series.
The character Riley is a female from Iceland who’s father is an internationally famous musician. And, the Chicago Cop character Will has the hots for her.
Will asks Riley if she is a musician too (like her father). Riley says: “No, I’m a DJ”.
If we’re done here with Lithuanian DJs, I’m kinda curious to know if the Maori in New Zealand are gay friendly.
Jim Miller
Career By by….
Garreth McCormack
For anyone who did like the elephants tune, here’s the original that he ripped which is alot better imo. Good ridence to him.
https://youtu.be/N2spiS97ZlI
Stache99
@MarionPaige: Not one word you said makes any sense8.
Larry Chin
So sad
Mark David Snyder
Bye Felicia
n900mixalot
No one said sh*! when Deadmau5 made some grossly homophobic statements a little while ago. Pffft.