{"id":8036,"date":"2024-06-12T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:47:35","slug":"alice-cooper-launches-2024-presidential-campaign-im-a-troubled-man-for-troubled-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8036","title":{"rendered":"ALICE COOPER Launches 2024 &#8216;Presidential Campaign&#8217;: &#8216;I&#8217;m A Troubled Man For Troubled Times&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"938\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ALICE.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ALICE.png 938w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ALICE-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ALICE-768x499.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Photo credit:&nbsp;<strong>Jenny Risher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legendary rocker&nbsp;<strong>Alice Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;is gearing up for the 2024 presidential election in the only way he knows how \u2014 by running for president, something he has done satirically every four years since releasing the song&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Elected&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;back in 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Godfather of Shock Rock has released a new &#8220;campaign&#8221; video in which he touts his qualifications thusly: &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m&nbsp;<strong>Alice Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;and I&#8217;m a troubled man for troubled times. I have absolutely no idea what to do, so I should fit right in.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"JOIN ALICE ON HIS 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7RH53dxTJQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aliceforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AliceForPresident.com<\/a>&nbsp;to be a part of the Wild Party and stay in the loop with&nbsp;<strong>Alice<\/strong>&#8216;s presidential campaign. Stay tuned for updates on his campaign kick-off, ongoing virtual rallies, question-and-answer sessions and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original 1972&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Elected&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;music video is when&nbsp;<strong>Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;first announced his &#8220;candidacy&#8221; and the formation of the Wild Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Elected&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;was the first single from&nbsp;<strong>Cooper<\/strong>&#8216;s iconic sixth studio album,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Billion Dollar Babies&#8221;<\/strong>. The record reached No. 1 in the U.S. and U.K. and was certified platinum by the&nbsp;<strong>RIAA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2018 interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blabbermouth.net\/news\/alice-cooper-when-musicians-are-telling-people-who-to-vote-for-i-think-thats-an-abuse-of-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>,&nbsp;<strong>Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;said that he keeps his political opinions to himself. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to mix politics and rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t look at&nbsp;<strong>Bono<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Sting<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>&nbsp;as political. I look at them as being humanitarian. I&#8217;ll contribute to anything humanitarian. Helping people who can&#8217;t help themselves. But when musicians are telling people who to vote for, I think that&#8217;s an abuse of power. You&#8217;re telling your fans not to think for themselves, just to think like you. Rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll is about freedom \u2014 and that&#8217;s not freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight years ago,&nbsp;<strong>Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;said that rock stars offering their political opinions is &#8220;the worst idea ever.&#8221; &#8220;First of all, why do people think rock stars know more than they do?&#8221; he said. &#8220;That is the biggest fallacy in the world \u2014 if anything, we&#8217;re dumber. We&#8217;re not smarter than anybody else. I mean, why do you think we&#8217;re rock stars?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Trust me, we don&#8217;t read magazines you don&#8217;t read. Nobody calls us up and gives us as inside information on politics. We know less than you do. If I watch TV, it&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Family Guy&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll was built to go as far away from politics as you could get. When my mom and dad talked about who to vote for, I&#8217;d go in the other room and put on&nbsp;<strong>THE BEATLES<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>ROLLING STONES<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 and I&#8217;m still like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cooper<\/strong>, who considers himself a humanitarian, said that he had no problem with artists using their platform to highlight global issues if it benefited others. He said: &#8220;I think what&nbsp;<strong>Bono<\/strong>&nbsp;does and what [<strong>Bruce<\/strong>]&nbsp;<strong>Springsteen<\/strong>&nbsp;does,&nbsp;<strong>Sting<\/strong>&nbsp;and all the people that raise money for others \u2014 that&#8217;s humanitarian, and I&#8217;m all for that. But I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s political.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2016 interview with&nbsp;<strong>Rolling Stone<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;stated about then-Republican presidential candidate&nbsp;<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>: &#8220;He&#8217;s an interesting character. It seems like he shoots himself in the foot every single day and gets more popular by doing it. It&#8217;s the weirdest. It&#8217;s like [<strong>Kurt<\/strong>]&nbsp;<strong>Vonnegut<\/strong>: Everything that shouldn&#8217;t happen is happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cooper<\/strong>&nbsp;previously said that he would even go so far as to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing just to make a point. During the 2004 election season, he said: &#8220;When I read the list of people who are supporting&nbsp;<strong>Kerry<\/strong>, if I wasn&#8217;t already a&nbsp;<strong>Bush<\/strong>&nbsp;supporter, I would have immediately switched.&nbsp;<strong>Linda Ronstadt?&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Don Henley<\/strong>? Geez, that&#8217;s a good reason right there to vote for&nbsp;<strong>Bush<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also mused about sitting between such political rocker icons as&nbsp;<strong>John Lennon<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Harry Nilsson<\/strong>&nbsp;while they argued politics and thinking, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Z7RH53dxTJQ%3Fsi%3DN8BD4jKUTrWR2ciV\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit:&nbsp;Jenny Risher Legendary rocker&nbsp;Alice Cooper&nbsp;is gearing up for the 2024 presidential election in the only way he knows how \u2014 by running for president, something he has done satirically every four years since releasing the song&nbsp;&#8220;Elected&#8221;&nbsp;back in 1972. The Godfather of Shock Rock has released a new &#8220;campaign&#8221; video in which he touts his&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8036\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ALICE COOPER Launches 2024 &#8216;Presidential Campaign&#8217;: &#8216;I&#8217;m A Troubled Man For Troubled Times&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8039,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions\/8039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}