Punk rock icon Nick Cave — for those not familiar he sings, “Red Right Hand” from the “Scream” movie — recently stated that the only way to “f***” with folks in 2023 is to “go to church and be a conservative.” And you know what? He’s absolutely right. The mainstream is liberal. Progressives have taken over every major institution and shape nearly ever facet of our culture today, so the only true rebellion left is to hold to traditional values and confess belief in Jesus Christ.
“The Australian musician, best known as the frontman of ‘Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,’ has opened up about his journey back to his faith, which he describes as conflicting and complicated,” the Daily Wire said.
In an interview with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers last week, Cave stated that he wasn’t anti-establishment during the early part of his career like a lot of other rockstars tend to be. Rather, he just tried to “irritate” both the audience he performed for and his peers in the industry.
“I came from Australia … I didn’t have that political furry, but I was much more concerned with f***ing with people on a different kind of a level,” he stated during the interview. “And I was always sort of at odds with my peers, I would say.”
“So, what’s the equivalent today,” Sayers asked the punk legend. “How do you f*** with people, today?”
“You be a conservative,” the “Red Right Hand” singer replied with a quickness. “You go to church and be a conservative.”
Nick Cave's early punk music energy was all about "fucking with people," he told me.
Me: "How do you fuck with people in 2023?"
Cave: "You'd go to church and be a conservative."
👇👇👇https://t.co/G6DQquA4cn pic.twitter.com/FU9OmFmoT3
— Freddie Sayers (@freddiesayers) April 11, 2023
“There may now be a conservative edge to things, but that word I would use cautiously,” Cave revealed as he spoke about his more recent creative output. “Certainly these days I still get similar delight, which I got in the early days, in sort of f***ing with people to some degree. There is something about living outside the expectations of other people that is energizing.”
Later in the interview, Cave went on to talk about self-censorship in our current culture, stating that he feels “a kind of wet blanket has been thrown over art in general, and this is just not good.”
“What is the wet blanket?” the 65-year-old musician added. “Well, a squeamish, censorious, merciless idea that there are certain things that you can get away with saying and certain things that you can’t get away with saying.”
“But I get tired of hearing people say: ‘Well, you can’t say this; I think this, but you can’t say this,’” Cave then explained. “That’s reflective of a mood, but I don’t think it’s true. I don’t think there are things that you can’t say. You just need to take the consequences of saying certain sorts of things.”
“Now these consequences are brutal, and merciless, and unjust sometimes, and it’s distressing to see these things happen,” he continued.
Back in 2015, tragedy struck Cave and his family after his 15-year-old son fell off a cliff and died near their home. This event, along with many others in the singer’s life have shaped how he sees the world and his fellow human being.
“Now I see the world in a completely different way, and see human beings in a completely different way,” Cave stated during the interview with UnHerd. “I see the brokenness of human beings, but also the unbelievable value of human beings. This is something that, back then, I could never have imagined I would have felt. I think it has something to do with becoming a more complete person, through a series of things that have happened to me through my life — things that have happened to us all, probably.”
"*" indicates required fields
