Travis Barker’s 18-year-old daughter Alabama feels she’s not “educated” enough to vote: “I don’t have to vote”
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker‘s 18-year-old daughter, Alabama, has shared that she doesn’t want to vote in the upcoming US Election.
Alabama, who is now of legal voting age, revealed her stance on voting during a livestream on social media, telling followers she didn’t feel “educated” enough.
“Not voting isn’t crazy in my opinion at all, because if I don’t feel like I have the exact education for what I’m voting for, how is it right to vote something I’m not completely educated on?” she told followers, per Billboard. “I could educate myself, but why would I do that if I genuinely don’t care? I’m just honest.”
She continued: “I don’t care to vote if I don’t know exactly what’s going on. I don’t think that’s wrong, and I completely stand on that and stand by it because, first of all, I just turned 18 and I never voted before. I’ve never voted. If I don’t want to vote, I don’t have to vote. If I don’t want to be in politics, I don’t have to be in politics.”
Alabama went on to say that, despite having no plans to vote, she does “have an opinion on what I feel is right because of what I’ve been seeing,” adding: “One of the [candidates] is just a mess.” However, she didn’t reveal if she was referring to Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, or Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.
Artists like Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Beyoncé, Megan Thee Stallion, P!nk, Bon Iver, Quavo, Bruce Springsteen, Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo and more have also come out in support of Harris ahead of this November’s election.
Elsewhere, Julian Casablancas recently shared that he feels no strong affinity to either party in the upcoming US election, referring to the candidates in an interview with NME as “both sides of the same corporate coin”.
Similar remarks were made by Chappell Roan earlier this year, when she said she wasn’t going to throw her undivided support behind any one candidate in the election, due to “problems” on both sides. However, following backlash on social media, Roan went on to further clarify her stance, saying: “I’m voting for fucking Kamala, but I’m not settling for what has been offered. Because that’s questionable. It’s questionable, the actions of our government, of the internet, of you and me.”
In other news, Travis Barker recently spoke out after a photo of his and Kourtney Kardashian’s baby son leaked online. During a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, Barker was asked how he was “handling fame and Rocky’s privacy”.
“Unfortunately, someone finally got a photo of him, but we’d rather keep him out of the spotlight,” he responded. “If I could do everything different, I would have done the same thing with my [older] kids. I think it’s weird to grow up and you’re 15 or 12, and you’re like, ‘Mom, you posted this of me?’”
Last year, Kardashian held up a sign at a Blink-182 gig to tell Barker she was pregnant – in a nod to the band’s ‘All The Small Things’ music video.
Earlier this month, Blink-182 released an extended edition of their 2023 album ‘One More Time…’ featuring eight new tracks – including ‘All In My Head’ and ‘No Fun’. The original version of the record saw Barker and Mark Hoppus reunite with Tom DeLonge.
The trio headlined Reading & Leeds 2024 in August. In a four-star review of their Reading set, NME wrote: “Their dynamic in 2024 feels more nuanced than ever, and the effortless showmanship on display pushes them beyond the realm of nostalgia into something that will stand the test of time.”
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Laura Molloy
NME
