Its always disappointing to me how many people can separate art from artist and insist on doing so. Sometimes it makes me question if I’m a weirdo for being so adamant about dropping shitty creators, but then I think “nah, fuck em.”
I do find it a little iffy for me. There are ones like HP where I was suuuper into it up through college, but have since stopped giving money to anything associated with Rowling and kinda just ignoring those books and movies entirely or thing like lostprophets where despite liking a lot of their songs, I can’t listen to them at all anymore knowing what the lead singer was about.
But then you’ve got bands like Anti-flag where one of their singers was, while not as bad as lostprophets, still quite bad, but yet I still throw on their albums when I read political news that makes me angry. Not sure what to do about that one, maybe it’s because there’s another singer so it’s not strictly Justin’s voice all the time, I dunno.
The one exception for me is Kasabian. The lead singer was completely shafted from the band and even cut off from their finances, so I have no issue continuing to listen to them.
Apart from those kinds of fringe cases, I can live without their work.
My “this looks gay (derogatory), better avoid it” mentality from my youth may have caused me a lot of pain and made me a pain to be around, but it also somehow helped me dodge a bullet by dismissing HP as cringe and never getting into it.
When the game came out, I was still fairly ignorant. I thought she was more passively hateful, like said hateful things but didn’t do much about it. Then the game had shorty shitty politics and I learned that she actively funds hate groups and shit and realized the real evil going on. Haven’t supported her (to my knowledge) since.
EDIT: autocorrect got me. I don’t care how tall your politics are
Its always disappointing to me how many people can separate art from artist and insist on doing so. Sometimes it makes me question if I’m a weirdo for being so adamant about dropping shitty creators, but then I think “nah, fuck em.”
art is an expression of self so separating the art from the artist is impossible, and those people who insist otherwise are full of it
jk rowling’s books have her shitty politics written all over them and it isn’t even subtle
Agreed
If I have an issue with a creator I don’t support them or their work period.
You’re not a weirdo.
I do find it a little iffy for me. There are ones like HP where I was suuuper into it up through college, but have since stopped giving money to anything associated with Rowling and kinda just ignoring those books and movies entirely or thing like lostprophets where despite liking a lot of their songs, I can’t listen to them at all anymore knowing what the lead singer was about.
But then you’ve got bands like Anti-flag where one of their singers was, while not as bad as lostprophets, still quite bad, but yet I still throw on their albums when I read political news that makes me angry. Not sure what to do about that one, maybe it’s because there’s another singer so it’s not strictly Justin’s voice all the time, I dunno.
The one exception for me is Kasabian. The lead singer was completely shafted from the band and even cut off from their finances, so I have no issue continuing to listen to them.
Apart from those kinds of fringe cases, I can live without their work.
My “this looks gay (derogatory), better avoid it” mentality from my youth may have caused me a lot of pain and made me a pain to be around, but it also somehow helped me dodge a bullet by dismissing HP as cringe and never getting into it.
When the game came out, I was still fairly ignorant. I thought she was more passively hateful, like said hateful things but didn’t do much about it. Then the game had
shortyshitty politics and I learned that she actively funds hate groups and shit and realized the real evil going on. Haven’t supported her (to my knowledge) since.EDIT: autocorrect got me. I don’t care how tall your politics are