Skillet frontman John Cooper has taken offense to Demi Lovato’s pro-choice song “Swine,” calling it “pure evil” in a new interview rife with extreme comments.
For a while a now, Cooper has made more headlines for his sociopolitical views than his music. Most recently, the outspoken right-wing Christian rocker pontificated on abortion rights, first comparing pro-choice supporters to Hamas.
“Speaking of, guess who else cheers on baby murder — Americans,” he said in an interview with PluggedIn (as transcribed by Blabbermouth.) “Eight hundred thousand babies aborted a year. I looked it up … it’s over a quarter, over 25 percent of babies each year are aborted in this country. It’s absolutely crazy. But all of our celebrities cheer it on. Just like Hamas cheers it on… The point is that every day will give you new opportunities to explain to your kids, ‘Okay, you know the celebrities that your friends all really idolize? You’ve gotta understand what they’re actually saying — they’re cheering it on.’”
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At that point, Cooper brought Lovato into it, using “Swine” as an example of a celebrity pro-choice platform. The track, which features metal instrumentation, was released as a protest song on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
“In that one song, she encapsulates so much evil,” said Cooper. “In that song, she supplies us with the best pro-life argument we always give, which is that people are not killing their babies because they can’t afford it. They’re killing their babies because they want to have sex with ‘whoever I want to, whenever I want to. I don’t wanna use birth control. I should be able to do whatever I want.’ It is pure narcissism, pure evil, and then she’s screaming at all the people who are saying that this is murder.”
He then circled back to Hamas: “I don’t wanna be too alarmist, but that is sort of like the Hamas crowd, the cheering Hamas crowd. We are standing up for something that’s just — we think — even though it’s really evil and wicked.”
We can’t say Cooper’s comments are too surprising given his past history. Previously, the Skillet frontman called Rage Against the Machine “government rock” while insisting that he was in fact the “revolutionary” in an anti-vax tirade. And before that, Cooper condemned Cardi B’s performance at the Grammys in 2021 while bizarrely comparing the award ceremony to Hitler.
Below you can watch the interview with Cooper discussing Demi Lovato and revisit the video for “Swine.”
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“In that one song, she encapsulates so much evil,” said Cooper. “In that song, she supplies us with the best pro-life argument we always give, which is that people are not killing their babies because they can’t afford it. They’re killing their babies because they want to have sex with ‘whoever I want to, whenever I want to. I don’t wanna use birth control. I should be able to do whatever I want.’ It is pure narcissism, pure evil, and then she’s screaming at all the people who are saying that this is murder.”
He then circled back to Hamas: “I don’t wanna be too alarmist, but that is sort of like the Hamas crowd, the cheering Hamas crowd. We are standing up for something that’s just — we think — even though it’s really evil and wicked.”
We can’t say Cooper’s comments are too surprising given his past history. Previously, the Skillet frontman called Rage Against the Machine “government rock” while insisting that he was in fact the “revolutionary” in an anti-vax tirade. And before that, Cooper condemned Cardi B’s performance at the Grammys in 2021 while bizarrely comparing the award ceremony to Hitler.