The Strokes avslutade sin Coachella-spelning med en video som fördömer USA:s utländska interventioner

The Strokes avslutade sin andra Coachella-spelning på lördagen med ett videomontage som kritiserar USA:s inblandning utomlands. Under låten ”Oblivius” visades bilder som anklagade CIA för att ha störtat ledare och visade nyligen utförda bombningar. Framträdandet markerade ett tydligare politiskt ställningstagande än deras konsert under den första helgen.

The Strokes intog huvudscenen på Coachella för sin huvudakt under den andra helgen den 19 april. När de framförde låten ”Oblivius” från 2016—som innehåller textraden ”What side you standing on?”—spelades en video bakom dem. Den belyste påstådd CIA-inblandning i regimskiften i länder som Chile, Bolivia och Demokratiska republiken Kongo, och nämnde ledare som Mohammed Mossadegh i Iran, Juan Torres i Bolivia och Salvador Allende i Chile. En bild på Martin Luther King, Jr. visades med en text som refererade till en civilrättslig process 1999 där en jury fann att en statlig konspiration låg bakom hans lönnmord; det amerikanska justitiedepartementet utredde saken senare men fann inga bevis för detta, vilket framgår av Pitchforks rapportering om händelsen.

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