Bryan Adams has made an expletive-filled attack on Chinese people over coronavirus, in the week he was due to start a concert residency at the Royal Albert Hall, London, that was cancelled due to the outbreak, through an Instagram post where he released a new song called “Cuts Like a Knife.”

The artist’s outburst comes with the theories that the COVID-19 virus originated from China. One such theory is that the virus is passed on through the consumption of bats. And in the earlier cases it found that the patients were those who visited wet markets and brought fresh meat from them. However, since a majority of cases were people who didn’t visit the market, people such as Donald Trump supported the opposing theory that it was a manmade virus from Wuhan. It is not even clear if Wuhan is the area where the virus originally transferred from animals to humans, and there is still no scientific consensus on the source of the outbreak.

Other artists like Paul McCartney added on Adams’ controversial by saying, “Let’s face it, it is a little bit medieval eating bats … They will not close down these wet markets, that got us into this trouble in the first place … It wouldn’t be so bad if this is the only thing it seems like you can blame on those wet markets.”

Queen’s Brian May also linked the eating of meat to the spread of the disease, saying: “This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals … it’s time to re-examine our world in a way that doesn’t abuse other species.”