Without even playing a note of music, Sting is able to put the dude in the middle to sleep by exuding a heady air of inherent boringness and cloying smugness
You may remember a few weeks back when this blog broke (after The Guardian and several other media outlets) the shocking story of Beyonce accepting a couple of million dollars to perform at Muammar al-Gaddafi’s son’s New Year’s party on the island of St. Barts. The latest pop star to cash in on the despotic-blood-money gravy train appears to be none other than self-congratulatory “do-gooder” Sting, who, The Guardian reports, accepted more than £1m to play for Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov’s daughter Gulnara Karimova.
Islam Karimov’s spirited antics include boiling people to death and conscripting children into forced labour. As you might expect, The United Nations has declared the guy a total fucking douchemonger. Sting, despite his associations with Amnesty International and various other humanitarian causes and his estimated £150m fortune, seemed to be right chuffed to get some of that bloody dictator money. Whatever you might say about Beyonce’s despot-furnished payday, at least she has never pretended to be some sort of spokesperson for the oppressed and downtrodden.
When the lid was blown off of Sting’s dirty little Uzbek secret, he was forced to issue a statement that read “I played in Uzbekistan a few months ago. The concert was organized by the president’s daughter and I believe sponsored by Unicef.”
According to Unicef, however, there is no truth to Sting’s claims about their involvement, which leads me to believe that the concert was actually sponsored by Uzbekicef and any funds raised went towards boiling people and enslaving children. Obviously, given the similarity in names between the two organizations, it’s quite likely that Sting simply made an error and his participation in the event, though unfortunate, was undertaken in good faith. Either that or he’s just a hypocritical, greedy shitbag.
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