Long time MARS fan.. for over a decade or so. However recently I've been questioning my allegiance to the band. The reasons why are too long to explain in this ask however I expressed them already in my video "Thoughts On... Ex-Fan Exposes JARED LETO" on YouTube. What are your thoughts on the points I made such as my experience meeting him in person and his bro-mance with known sexual predator Terry Richardson?
Okay. I watched your video. There are things i agree with and that i disagree with, but my personal issues with the band these days are different ones. But I definitely share your feeling of questioning my allegiance; but i am three steps ahead of you. I’m done with all of it.
I honestly don’t care if Jared is involved with the illuminati (I don’t believe he is), but you reminded me of something else: his sometimes reckless use of symbols and runes. he doesn’t come up himself with the symbols for the echelon or mars itself, he repurposes old ones, and that’s not just culturally insensitive, but also just… wrong. I remembered an old youtube upload (used to be called Olympic Spirit) that’s was deleted; thank god i save everything:
He either used the swastika as the buddhists use it, which stands for prosperity and good luck, or (and that’s what I as a German immediately thought) the swastika as the Nazis used it!! In “Mein Kampf” Hitler says the swastika represents “the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work”. I don’t think Jared is a Nazi, but the fact that he used a symbol and just attached a new meaning to it is just… wrong. These symbols have meanings that people that aren’t familiar with the weird MARS symbology associate with them! Not to mention that he actually stuck his “own” symbol in there as well, which he stole from the orthodox church. Speaking of church, the new mars symbol is also stolen:
For me as a Christian, this is just insulting. The band was crucified like Jesus? What is this supposed to mean? Answer: Jared has a massive God complex, like we’ve seen at their shows. When in “this is war” it says “the victor, the messiah”, for “Messiah” Jared opens his arms and lets the crowd call him their messiah. Same with the orthodox cross. What on earth does this have to do with HIM?! Nothing, except he thinks of himself like some kind of God. Ugh.
That he hangs out with Terry Richardson, well.. whatever. These women still run to his studio and let him take their picture and nobody ever called the police. And since Jared actually likes him.. no i’m not going to defend this. I don’t care though. I also don’t believe he drinks the blood of children, sorry. I think that’s ridiculous. He just has exceptionally good genes, just look at his mom, and he’s an actor. that isn’t his real hair color. it’s all an illusion that he’s putting on so that we’re all at his feet, worshiping the ground he walks on.
The reason i stopped listening to them is for one thing that money is playing such a huuuuuuge role for the band that i don’t feel valued as someone who doesn’t have as much to spend. It’s not enough to go to concerts and to cheer as loud as you can, have a fan blog, buy overpriced merch, RT every dumb tweet of his… no no you have to spend hundreds of dollars/euros/other currencies on meet and greets and another couple thousands for the camp. Little hint here: If you have to offer a fucking payment plan for your get together with fans, it might be too expensive!!!! But i don’t want to get into further here, since i’ve talked about that until i was blue in the face. and i mean, both of us are guilty here for owning tons of t-shirts, multiple copies of the same album, every video ever sold on VyRT… we didn’t have to do it. I for example didn’t go to the concert in Munich last sunday, even though i could have done, and guess what… i feel pretty good. the world hasn’t ended even though i wasn’t there. neither was Tomo, so i guess it doesn’t matter lol
Today i want to say that i had really hoped that some of my enthusiasm for this band might come back with the new album, but every piece of info i get just disappoints me more. The title: America. The videos: all about America. Don’t get me wrong, i love america, and i hope to live there after i graduate; in my heart i already do. But: compared to the fans they have in Europe, America is not exactly their market. The Europeans have made sure for the last album cycles that they’re all fed and clothed. Here they played stadiums, and in the US small venues. So it’s suuuuuuch a cheap ploy to engage with patriotic Americans to gain new fans.
Not to mention that the whole campaign for this album is super lazy. The video they posted last summer, where a label executive was pressuring them to release new music seemed like a (badly made) joke at first, but the more i watch all this unfold, the more i actually believe that this is exactly what happened. They have no concept, which is why they constantly ask the fans to come up with ideas, and their songs are being written days before they’re being released. One could of course question if those claims are true, but this would also explain the 8 months between first single and album release, even though lyric wise all the songs are written with the trusted Jared Leto phrases that he uses in every song. “you have to believe”, “do you believe” “I believe” “do you want to cross the line” “we crossed the line” and the ever returning theme of a fight. Is there a story behind that, Jared, or do you have a fish bowl with these snippets written on pieces of paper and you fish them out and arrange them into a song? Anyways. Also, could Shannon and Tomo BE any less interested in all of this? No. I don’t think they could.
So, nice video, Kealey, but my reasons for leaving the mars fandom are different ones. I’m going to leave the link here, so that people can watch the reason why i went on another rant about Mars.
If you would like to read me rant about something else for a change, check out my other blog Political Animal, I hope to upload a piece on gun control before the March for our Lives on Saturday!
