In Defense of Ten Walls’ Recent Homophobic Comments

As many now know, the Lithuanian producer Ten Walls, born Marijus Adomaitis, previously best known for his 2014 tune "Walking With Elephants," is now best known for sharing some distinctively hateful thoughts about gay people on Facebook. By the time he recanted, it was too late, as all his summer festival bookings had disappeared into thin air like a handful of glitter at a gay bar.

While the fate of his career is all but sealed, maybe it's time we look at his actions from a different light. To that end, here are ten reasons why maybe we shouldn't be mad at Ten Walls for his homophobic outburst after all.

10. In all fairness, his post was in Lithuanian and he probably thought nobody would read it.

You know when you're a kid and you have a secret code language with your best friend? No? Well, Ten Walls thought Lithuanian was his own secret code language. Spoken by a scant 3 million people, Ten Walls could reasonably assume very few of his fans would actually read his rant. In fact, he's probably said all sorts of shit on his Facebook wall before and nobody has ever noticed.

9. He brought the dance music community together.
Can you remember a time when Creamfields, HARD, Mysteryland, Sónar, and others all agreed on something aside from insanely high ticket prices?

8. This raised awareness of "The Elephant Walk" hazing technique.
Do you know what it is? Well, you do now.

7. How could Ten Walls have known anyone would react to homophobic comments quite like this?
Maybe he saw Deorro's choice use of the F word on Twitter last summer and thought "let's see how far we can take this?"

6. This gives us an excuse to talk about gay elephants.
Get it, boys.

5. On the off chance that Russia invades Lithuania, Ten Walls has just preemptively sided with his new anti-gay overlords.

They just have to get through Latvia or Belarus first. But hey…

crazier shit has happened

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4. Pedophiles are totally not cool.
Why is nobody talking about this? A good portion of Ten Walls' statements targeted pedophiles, especially pedophile priests. And you know what? Those kiddie-diddlers had the wrath of Ten Walls coming. Especially the slang word he used for "anus." Zing! While some commenters on THUMP were busy comparing a "gay mafia" to ISIS, Ten Walls had his eyes on the real enemy: "people of a different breed" (AKA gays).

3. Ten Walls singlehandedly supported the Lithuanian-to-English translation industry for a day.
And you thought your foreign language skills were underutilized!

2. The title of "Best Elephant-Related Song" now rightly reverts to Henry Mancini.
Delighting ears for more than 50 years.

1. With all that plagues the world of dance music in 2015 it's refreshing to know the core of the scene will unreservedly call out hateful behavior as unacceptable and unwelcome.
Don't worry, there's probably a ghost producer accusation scandal just around the corner.

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