{"id":29226,"date":"2024-04-09T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppard-jumps-on-the-viral-of-course-tiktok-trend\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:04:31","slug":"def-leppard-jumps-on-the-viral-of-course-tiktok-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppard-jumps-on-the-viral-of-course-tiktok-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Def Leppard jumps on the viral \u201cOf Course\u201d TikTok trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-08\/Getty_DefLeppard_040824.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Chris Putnam\/Future Publishing via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Def Leppard<\/strong> has jumped on the viral\u00a0\u201cOf Course\u201d TikTok trend, where folks share stereotypes about their professions, race, gender and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C5ghLozLs9h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>post on Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, each member of the band shares what they seem to think is an obvious fact about the group. It starts off with bassist <strong>Rick Savage<\/strong>, who\u00a0says, \u201cWe\u2019re Def Leppard and of course we\u2019ve played with <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>, <strong>Miley Cyrus<\/strong> and <strong>Queen<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band teamed up with Taylor for a 2008 episode of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">CMT Crossroads<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, while they preformed\u00a0with Miley at the September 2022 Los Angeles tribute concert for the late <strong>Foo Fighters<\/strong>\u00a0drummer <strong>Taylor Hawkins<\/strong>\u00a0and with Queen at the 1992 <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong> tribute concert in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Savage was followed by guitarist <strong>Phil Collen<\/strong>, who shared, \u201cOf course we play three continents in a day,\u201d referring to their October 23, 1995, shows in Morocco, England and Canada. Drummer <strong>Rick Allen<\/strong>, who lost his arm in a 1985 car accident, shared a fact about himself, noting, \u201cOf course I play drums with my feet,\u201d\u00a0while guitarist\u00a0<strong>Vivian Campbell<\/strong>\u00a0added a crack about their longevity, sharing, \u201cOf course we\u2019re your mother\u2019s favorite band.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Def Leppard&#8217;s\u00a0frontman,\u00a0<strong>Joe Elliott<\/strong>, wraps up the video by noting, \u201cWe\u2019re Def Leppard, of course, we\u2019re playing stadiums this summer. All summer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That stadium tour\u00a0he&#8217;s referring to is\u00a0the band\u2019s upcoming co-headlining tour with <strong>Journey<\/strong>, which kicks off July 6 in St. Louis. The tour also features special guests <strong>Steve Miller Band<\/strong>, <strong>Heart<\/strong> and <strong>Cheap Trick<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>A complete list of dates can be found at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/defleppard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong> defleppard.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Putnam\/Future Publishing via Getty Images Def Leppard has jumped on the viral\u00a0\u201cOf Course\u201d TikTok trend, where folks share stereotypes about their professions, race, gender and more. In a post on Instagram, each member of the band shares what they seem to think is an obvious fact about the group.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/def-leppard-jumps-on-the-viral-of-course-tiktok-trend\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}