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Didn't exactly love Disturbed, but signing an Israeli artillery shell? Seriously, David?
I was heavily disappointed (and okay, fucking furious for a moment) when he showed solidarity with the Israeli government a few months after the devastation of Palestine started, but what can you do? Now what, he's announced that he takes pride and pleasure in the Palestinian genocide by signing the shell? Fuck, man
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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 grew up listening to country. Now, in my 30s, a lot of the songs hit different, and not in a good way.
first time visiting America I tried going though the radio. a Christian channel talking about how slavery was good, then switched to country music to hear a love ballad to a pick up truck.
and I thought GTA radio was satire.
I once tuned in to a random radio via radiogarden and it turned out to be a Christian talk radio. Listening to that for twenty seconds was one hell of a trip
why are American chritians so adamant to create hell on earth?
Outlaw country is the only country I ever listened to
With a big iron on his hiiiiiip
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I occasionally enjoy listening to Americana Boogie Radio online, they play a lot of old country style sings made by new and progressive people (there's a lot of music about smoking weed, lol)
To say Kanye West is a bigoted cunt is the understatement of the century.
Fucking lostprophets, man. Even the other bandmates do everything they can to distance themselves.
I've never completely deleted all of a band's music from everything, including my backups. Even some of the really rubbish stuff in genres I'm not into.
Except for Lostprophets.
Megadeth, Pantera, Rammstein...
What happened with Megadeth?
Given how much of their music is anti-war, anti-capitalism, and pro-environmentalism I'll be disappointed if it's egregious :-/
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.
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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 love Green Day. Keeping it as close to punk as GenX can nowadays
When you said Green Day I almost panicked wondering what shitty thing they did
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
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Staind
Smashing Pumpkins
Ariel Pink
Thats just a few
Nooooo not smashing pumpkins
What happened with Smashing Pumpkins?
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
Ugh ... what a twat.
Thanks for providing a solid link :-)
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Van Morrison Morrissey
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
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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.
In high school a friend burned me a Skillet cd without me asking. Before listening to them I looked them up, saw they were a Christian band, and threw away the disk.
Sorry for wasting your cd Mike, but you knew I was atheist. There was no way I was going to get into that.
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.
Can always fall back on Bodycount's Cop Killer album
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.
I used to love Brand New
I remember when I found weyheyhey on YT, really liked their shit, I look down to the comments and - arrested for distribution of csam, ain't that great
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.
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