I was pleasantly surprised to recently discover the once racist drummer for a rather popular hardcore band speaking out against racists
This is 40 years later
Better than dying an old fascist like so many others
I cut them out entirely. I don’t want to support them emotionally through my enjoyment or monetarily.
Agreed. Beyond moral dilemmas, it’s just hard to enjoy something from a known pos
There are a few cases where someone became a piece of shit but I still love their old music because it shows the kind of person they used to be. Maroon 5’s first three records come to mind, but Adam is a rich dickwad who deserves nothing but irrelevance now.
It’s often the very thing that allowed someone to create something great that leads them down a dark path.
Megadeth, Pantera, Rammstein…
deleted by creator
Frontmann Dave Mustaine is a christian bigot and had some really weird remarks about Obama. I think he saw how much backlash that got him and hasn’t said much since then, but as with Rammsteins frontman Lindemann I cannot trust anything anymore what they say.
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
Staind
Smashing Pumpkins
Ariel Pink
Thats just a few
Nooooo not smashing pumpkins
deleted by creator
Billy Corgan is a self-described free market libertarian capitalist https://www.nme.com/news/music/billy-corgan-speaks-political-stance-following-controversial-donald-trump-comments-2271885
deleted by creator
Van Morrison Morrissey
To say Kanye West is a bigoted cunt is the understatement of the century.
I remember listening to a Bowling For Soup album a few years ago and every other song was basically “I hate my girlfriend, but I stay with her so people don’t think I’m gay” and I suddenly understood why they were a one hit winder
They had way more than one hit…
deleted by creator
With the amount of really good music out there at a fingertip it’s easier than ever to drop bad artists.
Like I get the nostalgia factor, struggle with it myself sometimes, but you gotta stay young and work at discovering and digesting new stuff.
I used to listen to Skillet once upon a time. But I think recently the singer went full maga or something like that, possibly due to waning popularity.
Not sure though, it’s more like gossip because I haven’t been interested in them since about a decade or so. And I can’t say I was listening to their lyrics much in the first place.
One of the ones I always think about is I used to really like lostprophets. I’m torn between wanting a better person to cover those songs and having them die like the lead singer.
This is how I learned Ian Watkins is dead.
Good.
Take that shit back. That song is now a hatsune miku song. Or steal it, its your song now. You samples the entire track and now its yours. With theories like death of the author, and if you pirate the music, theres really no reason shame yourself for the emotional connection you have with a piece of art, regardless of how it came to be.
If you want to of course, no inperative in the above, i just feel like its unfair to let the scumbags also dictate your emotional relationships with pieces of media they cant own even though it stemmes from their hands, just like children arent the property of their parents
As much as I understand why “death of the author” is a valuable perspective, I don’t agree with and can’t adopt it. I cannot divorce art from it’s context because I cannot divorce anything from it’s context. I think it’s an unrealistic ideal to pretend that things exist outside of their connection with other things, as our understanding comes from web of associations that we build up throughout our life.
It’s useful to not overvalue your assumptions or assume you know anything about an author from their work, but I don’t think the opposite is true. If I know something was made by a person with terrible views, I will always consider how it might factor into their work. Every artist inserts a perspective into what they make, and if the perspective is one I find detestable, I will enjoy it less.
I’m not very sentimental about media, so I don’t see it as “scumbags winning” if they cause me to stop liking it. I don’t mind throwing aside a work I previously enjoyed or otherwise respect, as my past enjoyment is not sacred in any way. I’ll find new meaningful work. At the same time, I’m a weirdo who enjoys hearing spoilers to stories, so I understand if most people can’t live like me.
The artist also endorsing a candidate and especially donating to them is as effective if not more so than most attack ads. A lot of people put too much clout on media types.
Stressing the ‘if you want to’ part, theres several artists that for me are permanently stained, meaning; i get the ikk when thinking of them, which means its hard for me to enjoy the art. I just dont want people to feel bad if fx they really like a specific song, know the artist are some scumbags, and therefore pirates all the audio leaving out any monetary support.
U get what i mean? Really dont want to come across like im moralizing :)
That’s fair
Aaron Lewis from Staind turned into a real bro-country dbag. Or maybe he was like that when he was with Staind but I didn’t have social media in 2003 to learn about it.
Good ending: Five Iron Frenzy
I haven’t thought about them in years, but dang Reese seems super chill.
Remix✊🏿
Edit: I added a nose and mouth
What about this then?
The horsmen of the reaction face
