The band Tramp Stamps, who are accused of being industry 'plants'
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The first two posts you see on Tramp Stamps’ Instagram tell quite the story. One, uploaded April 14, is the video for the Tennessee band’s new single I’d Rather Die, a colourful, defiantly-spirited pop-punk affair in which they (twentysomethings Marisa Maino, Caroline Baker, and Paige Blue) declare that, “I’d rather die than hook up with another straight white guy”.
Three days later, the next post. “Hey fu--ers”, it begins, before angrily hitting back at the “misinformation, lies and cancel culture” about that band that spread through the internet in the 72 hours between dispatches. “You have gone to the ends of the f---ing earth to sh-t on us, have told us to kill ourselves, and have used conspiracy theories on TikTok as a trend to get more views on your own videos.”