Working Class Hero (Remastered 2010)
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I was reading this article from 1970 and he’s obviously a complicated dude: https://archive.is/POtvB

The lyrics are a little haunting and I’ve never heard it before.

  • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    193·
    11 months ago

    I heard the argument the other day telling me to separate art from the artist.

    My singular response was “yeah, and I like Trapped In The Closet too, but R Kelly pissed on a 13 year old girl he later married. I can’t listen to any of his music and not have that in the back of my mind. If you can stomach the song while thinking about that, the song must be pretty good or the travesty not that bad that you can push it out”

    Loved Eric Clapton, read what he said about Hendrix and his own family and then the vaccine stuff in recent years resurfaced it. No more Clapton

    • Uglyhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      11 months ago

      I mean yeah, Chuck Berry used to fart on women’s faces while they were tossing his salad without consent as well, and that’s pretty fucked up. But reading the descriptions of the videos of R Kelly pissing on minors faces was just way way fucked up. Wouldn’t be able to listen to any song without thinking of all the fucked up things he’s done to other people.

      • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        11 months ago

        Yeah there are definitely levels. Louis C.K. makes me feel weird, I think he’s funny and I think what he did was wrong but not on the level of R. Kelly or actual sexual criminals. Then the R Kelly stuff happens and it makes you re-evaluate the entire Leaderboard of ‘fucked up celebrity shit’.

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I always took it as more of a “I enjoy the art, don’t know what’s going on in the artist’s life” kinda of deal. There’s plenty of people who don’t want to hear a thing about any artist’s personal life or opinion. And it’s not fair to condemn someone that’s enjoying some art because they don’t care to keep up with the joneses.