The Maneskin Post – “This was totally unexpected and we may have exaggerated a bit, but we loved it! Chaos and destruction in Las Vegas aside, our North American trip has just come to an end and we’re already missing out. We couldn’t be happier with the time spent with you and the love you showed us! The energy you brought to every single concert made this tour simply unforgettable. We’re counting down the days until we return. We love you, thank you,” Maneskin wrote on Instagram along with the photos and videos of them destroying musical instruments.
The reactions – Many outraged comments surfaced under the band’s post. “The 70s/80s, rock was culture and change. Crisis and break with the past. These gestures were symbolic. Forgive me, I’ve learned to appreciate your music, but these gestures are deeply out of time, disrespectful to those who take on the debt to buy him an instrument and strictly non-rock if you then join me Gucci tag. Make music, you know how to make it. Forget the stupid exhibitionism. “Dear Maneskin, my son asked Santa for a guitar because, like you, he would love to ‘be rock and make people dance’. To see her smashed is a slap in dreams and misery, it’s not rock, it is not rebellion, it’s also deja vu old man and trivial. If you have leftovers, give them to the kids. Build dreams, don’t break them!; “I find that thing painful. It can be seen that they forgot when they played in the streets and could not afford instruments of a certain level. We should never forget where we started”; “It’s a slap in the face to those who can’t afford an instrument and, most importantly, disrespectful to those who built the instrument.”
And again: “But why? You go down a bit, I respected you before, but success went to your head (unfortunately)” and “What did you want to demonstrate? The greats of rock made it, ok, but it doesn’t go after everything, especially reprehensible behavior. It was a stupid and deeply disrespectful gesture that deserves unfollowing. And I’m sorry, but intelligence comes first. Don’t show that you are rock, but that you are shallow and vulgar Maybe there’s a boy like you on Via del Corso who’s playing while dreaming of breaking through, trying to find a few euros to buy a better guitar and you, what are you doing, what happened to you? Rock is definitely different.”
The controversy also flared up on Twitter. “The Maneskin that rock everything at a concert. Mamma mia, what an inconvenience. Instead of smashing them, give them to those who can’t buy them and really want to play them”; “I respect them, I admire them, I will go to their concert, but the Maneskin gesture of smashing the instruments at the end of the Las Vegas concert is definitely too much and unnecessary,” read just some of the tweets on the subject .