American analyst and critic Bob Lefsetz caught some heat this week after posting a blog post that questioned whether or not Live Nation mongol Michael Rapino should be worried in wake of the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Lefsetz, who runs the music analysis blog and newsletter Lefsetz Letter, published a blog post on Sunday, titled “Michael Rapino.”

“Will someone shoot him?” Lefsetz questioned in the post, noting that “I can’t think of a more hated company than Ticketmaster.”

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Lefsetz went on to note that while no one has ever died from being unable to secure a concert ticket, “we have an entire nation of pissed-off customers” and “if Rapino were to die, it would be the acts Live Nation promotes that would be responsible,” as well as “the agents and managers who represent them.”

While Lefsetz explained that fees were created “as a way to create a pool of revenue that the acts couldn’t commission,” these acts playing clubs with no attention on Spotify have “got to blame someone for their lack of financial success and the target is on the back of Ticketmaster.” He pointed to the fact that fees can be as high as the face value price of a ticket, which “both the acts and the customers are bitching about.”

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“One thing is for sure, the public is beyond angry,” Lefsetz continued. “And feels powerless. Used to be the acts were leaders, beacons, their essence was their ability to speak power to the man. Today’s acts? They’re hiding behind Ticketmaster while they’re playing privates and selling perfume and tchotchkes.”

Lefsetz’s post ended with the cryptic statement: “How does this play out? Expect change.”

After the post was published, Lefsetz faced backlash online, noting in a follow-up post that “people can’t read” and “my inbox is inundated with people who believe I suggested someone shoot Michael Rapino.”

“I wrote: ‘Will someone shoot Michael Rapino?'” Lefsetz reiterated. “Do you see the question mark at the end? IT’S A QUESTION! Not a suggestion. To be a suggestion it would need to be a statement. And said statement would not end with a question mark, never does.”

He went on to say that “anyone who reads my post and believes I suggested Michael Rapino be shot is delusional,” and he wrote the post after Thompson was gunned down because now “CEOs are freaking out.” Lefsetz pointed to an opinion piece he read in the New York Times by Zeynep Tufecki, which left him “asking the question whether anyone was pissed enough to kill someone in the music industry.”

Lefsetz is certainly right about one thing; music fans are pissed off. Over the past year, concertgoers across all genres —  from Green Day and Sleep Token to Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo — have complained of Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s system, pointing to dynamic pricing. This infamous ticketing practice causes prices to increase based on demand — a practice that was banned in Australia this year.

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Broadway legend Andrew Lloyd Webber called dynamic pricing “racketeering” and “completely wrong.” Oasis revealed they would not use dynamic pricing on the North American leg of their reunion tour, following messy ticket sales in the UK and Ireland. Iron Maiden and The Cure both followed suit, opting-out of dynamic pricing for their tours. The Cure’s Robert Smith said the practice is “driven by greed” and artists are well aware of it, noting, “if they say they do not, they’re either f**king stupid or lying.”

Fans and artists aren’t alone, either. Legislators have called-out Ticketmaster and its parent company, which are now the targets of an antitrust lawsuit brought forth by the Department of Justice and 39 states alongside the District of Columbia. The suit aims to break-up the pair, citing anticompetitive and monopolistic business practices.