GENE SIMMONS Says He’s Fine With Being Called An A**hole

Is Gene Simmons an asshole? That’s considerably up for debate, though I’m positive our feedback part might be completely satisfied to weigh in on the topic. However apparently, Simmons is okay with you pondering of him as an asshole. A lot in order that he made some actually problematic comparisons about it. In a latest interview with podcast/YouTube collection Really Famous with Kara Mayer Robinson (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth), Simmons stated, “I’d say there are some — could possibly be a big quantity, couldn’t — who suppose I am an asshole. In truth, I named my second solo album ‘Asshole‘, which, I assumed, was akin to black folks taking possession of the ‘n’ phrase. And fats folks, chubby folks, overweight folks, taking possession of that, so that you simply reduce the impression of that.”

If you happen to aren’t black, and also you catch your self saying that one thing you’ve finished is “identical to when black folks do that factor,” I feel it’s okay to simply understand what you simply stated, acknowledge it’s a foul concept to complete the sentence you began, after which simply cease speaking. Gene, individuals are referred to as racial slurs for stereotypes which have unfairly been positioned on them due to the race they had been born into, you get referred to as an asshole since you allegedly groped Ace Frehley’s wife and supported the George W. Bush administration. These aren’t the identical factor.

“I am okay with being labeled or regarded as an asshole, as a result of I do know who I’m,” he continued. “And there are different individuals who suppose, ‘You solely do that for cash.’ And my response is — after all. Why am I not salt of the earth when nearly all the roles on the face of the planet are carried out by individuals who do not just like the job they’ve, and the one cause they’re doing that’s to have the ability to earn cash to feed their households and put a roof over their head? Just for cash. No one desires to dig ditches on a freeway. The constructing we’re in, anyone needed to put up. They do this day by day. They go to work, do the identical factor day by day, 9 to 5, 5 days every week. Be a part of the union or not, and break their backs and by no means get wealthy, simply to have the option… ‘That is the salt of the earth.’ Why cannot I be salt of the [earth]? The truth that I make more cash? However I additionally give to philanthropy. And by the way in which, it is none of your fucking enterprise who or what or the place. I am not making an attempt to impress you or not. I do know who I’m. And perhaps that is the most effective factor to do in life, is to simply be snug in your personal pores and skin, ‘trigger not everyone likes Jesus both.”

…what?

Simmons appears to be swinging wildly from matter to matter right here, however he appears to nearly be making an attempt to show that he deserves to be referred to as an asshole. So, cool, Gene, I suppose you’re an asshole. Congratulations?