Chvrches have taken to social media to express their disappointment in Marshmello, who they recently collaborated with on the track, ‘Here With Me’, after he decided to work with Tyga and Chris Brown. Taking to social media the band condemned Marshmello’s decision to work with “predators and abusers”.
Last month, Chvrches teamed up with Marshmello on new single, ‘Here With Me’. But, today (April 26) the Scottish band have taken to Twitter to hit out at the EDM DJ for his latest collaboration, ‘Light It UP’, because it features both Tyga and Chris Brown.
Taking to social media, the trio, said: “We are really upset, confused and disappointed by Marshmello’s choice to work with Tyga and Chris Brown. We like and respect Mello as a person but working with people who are predators and abusers enables, excuses and ultimately tacitly endorses that behaviour. That is not something we can or will stand behind.”
— CHVRCHΞS (@CHVRCHES) April 25, 2019
Back in 2009, Chris Brown was arrested for the felony assault of his girlfriend, at the time, Rihanna, while they were sitting in a parked car, in Los Angeles, on their way to the Grammy Awards. He was sentenced to five years’ probation and six months’ community service.
Tyga, who also features on Marshmello’s song, ‘Light It Up’, is well known for having dated Kylie Jenner. The 29-year-old rapper reality TV show star eventually went public with their relationship in 2015. However, he continually denied that they’d been dating before she was 18.
Tyga’s representatives were also forced to go on record and deny allegations that the rapper exchanged sexually-charged messages, with a 14-year-old girl. However, the star’s management team said he had been messaging her about working on some music together.
Chvrches – a trio from Glasgow that is made up of frontwomen Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, and Martin Doherty – are known for publically voicing their opinions on social issues. Speaking, in an interview with the BBC in 2018, about the misogyny in the music industry and the #MeToo movement, Chvrches frontwomen, Lauren Mayberry, said: “It’s great that people are waking up and having that conversation, but it has to be more than a symbolic gesture.
“Yes, it’s great that you kicked Harvey Weinstein out of the Academy but Roman Polanski’s still in there, Woody Allen’s still in there, Bill Cosby’s still in there. People wear white roses at the Grammy Awards to show they stand with these things – but then you look at the show, and you look at the content of it, and you look at the people in the room, and you’re like, ‘Oh, nothing has changed.'”
The release of ‘Here With Me’ follows Chvrches third album, ‘Love Is Dead’, which was released in 2018. The Scottish band’s track, ‘Here With Me’, with Marshmello, is fans’ first taste of new music since they released their third alum, ‘Love Is Dead’, last year. In a four star review, NME wrote: “In these times, it would be surprising to find the band looking inward, and ‘Love Is Dead’ manages to balance hopeful, utopian pop with a darker, gloomier undercurrent. Love may not be dead after all, but if you ask CHVRCHES, the onus is on all of us to try and keep it alive.”
