Almost 60,000 People Sign Petition Asking Glastonbury to Cancel Kanye West Performance
"Let's prevent this musical injustice now!"

Kanye West is going to headline Saturday night at England's prestigious Glastonbury Festival this summer, prompting nearly 60,000 presumed rock-enthusiasts to sign a petition asking organizers to cancel 'Ye's performance. "Kanye West is an insult to music fans all over the world," wrote petition-starter Neil Lonsdale, apparently speaking for music fans all over the world (or, at the very least, the U.K.). "This egotistical, maniacal, disgrace was a clear oversight," he continued. "There is still time to correct this."

The petition, which he started earlier this week as a joke, has inspired ire from fans of a very specific genre of music. In a recent interview with NME, Lonsdale compared Kanye (unfavorably) to the Rolling Stones, who headlined Glastonbury's Saturday proceedings in 2013; he also claimed that his distaste for West has nothing to do with race or a general bias against hip-hop. According to Lonsdale — who will be attending the festival for the first time (!) this year — Kanye West, the man behind songs like "Who Will Survive in America" and "New U Slaves," doesn't "represent anything."