Rocker Bryan Adams seems to blame China for the Coronavirus pandemic in a profanity-laden post

Bryan Adams has been branded ‘racist’ over a shocking social media post which appeared to blame the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on China and its citizens.  

The rocker, 60, came under fire for the post – shared on Instagram and Twitter- in which he blamed the pandemic on ‘bat eating b*****ds’.

He wrote: ‘Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of a tenancy of gigs at the @royalalberthall, but thanks to some f****ing bat eating, wet market animal selling, virus making greedy b*******, the whole world is now on hold, not to mention the thousands that have suffered or died from this virus,’ he began.

Eye opening: Bryan Adams has been branded ‘racist’ over a shocking social media post which appeared to blame the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on China and its citizens

The hitmaker seemed to blame denizens of Wuhan, China, where the virus is believed to have originated, for eating meat and selling live animals.

‘My message to them other than “thanks a f***ing lot” is go vegan,’ he added.

Adams ended the post with more mundane apologies to fans and calls to ‘take care of yourselves.’   

He also added the hashtags ‘#banwetmarkets’ and ‘#govegan.’

Shocking: The rocker, 60, came under fire for the post – shared on Instagram and Twitter- in which he blamed the pandemic on ‘bat eating b*****ds’ (pictured in 2015)

Wet markets are any marketplaces selling produce, fish and meat, and not all wet markets sell live animals.

 The Summer of ’69 hitmaker was widely lambasted on Twitter for the post, which many users considered racist.   

Adams’ Instagram post began innocuously enough with a solo acoustic snippet of his popular song Cuts Like A Knife, but the post quickly devolved into finger-pointing about the pandemic’s origins. 

Singled out: The hitmaker seemed to blame denizens of Wuhan, China, where the virus is believed to have originated, for eating meat and selling live animals; shown in 2017

The response to his post was swift, and multiple users called him out for the racist comments.

‘Man we were killin’ time / We were young and racist / We needed to unwind,’ wrote the Los Angeles Times’ Chief Film Critic Justin Chang, who paraphrased lyrics from Summer Of ’69.

Another user was also inspired by Adams’ hit.

‘BRYAN ADAMS: wrote my first real racist tweet / my career was already in decline / blaming the Chinese for my lack of income / was the summer of COVID one-nine,’ they wrote. 

Punny: Justin Chang, Chief Film Critic for the Los Angeles Times, called the song racist by paraphrasing the lyrics to Adams’ Summer Of ’69

Great minds: Another user was also inspired by the enduring staple of classic rock radio

Scandalized: Another Twitter user shared a funny photo of Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian gaping in shock at the news of Adams’ post

Another Twitter user shared a funny photo of Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian gaping in shock. 

‘Me: Cool, Bryan Adams is trending number 1 in the world! Me: See’s why Bryan Adams is trending,’ they wrote above the shocked expression.

Another take followed a similar format.

‘*Sees Bryan Adams is trending: huh I wonder if he’s doing some sort of #Covid19 benefit or something,’ they wrote, adding a gif of Steve Carell as Michael Scott from The Office saying, ‘Nope. Don’t like that.’

Writer Rax King tweeted: ‘Anybody have ‘bryan adams racist meltdown’ in the 2020-is-a-hot-mess pool.’ 

‘Nope. Don’t like that’: A gif of Steve Carell as Michael Scott from The Office represented another user’s surprise

Didn’t see that coming: Writer Rax King didn’t see the post in her ‘2020-is-a-hot-mess pool’

‘Inconvenienced’: One user replied directly to Adams’ post with more fury than humor

Apt comparison: Another Twitter poster compared Adams to another rocker who was at his most popular in the 1980s

One user replied directly to Adams’ post with more fury than humor: ‘So what you’re saying, if I understand correctly, is that all of this has really inconvenienced Bryan Adams?

‘Well, I’m sure all the sick and and dying common folks around the world will sympathise with you, for your loss. The struggle is real. For Bryan Adams,’ they wrote.

Another Twitter poster compared Adams to another rocker who was at his most popular in the 1980s.

‘So Twitter this past seven days has taught us two music-related lessons: 1) Axl Rose isn’t as big an a****** as we thought. 2) Bryan Adams is an even larger a****** than we ever imagined.’ 

Nothing to see here: So far, Adams has yet to comment on the controversy, though he previously spoke with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals about his journey to adopting a vegan diet; shown in 2018

So far, Adams has yet to comment on the controversy.

In an interview with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), he described how his love of his dogs led him to adopt a vegan diet, which excludes all meat, as well as animal byproducts including eggs and dairy.

The organization has been criticized in the past for its anti-fur advertisements featuring partially covered nude women, which some detractors have found to be sexist.