It ... kinda varies on a case by case basis for me? When Varg claims his music isn't NSBM because his political views do not show up in the lyrics, i'm inclined to say "fuck off, nazi." But i can look past flaws if they're less severe than being a nazi or something like that. I can ignore Beck being in Scientology because it doesn't seem to show up in his work. I can look past artists having some bad takes, or some really weird views, and i can definitely look past an artist being an average lib. That's stuff were i criticize the take, but not the person making that take if that person seems to be largely ok and just ill-informed. But when somebody's being actively bigotted, when it gets too chuddy, i have to draw the line somewhere.
Do we separate art from the artist?
Can we please separate art from the artist i wanna keep listening to rtj :(
It ... kinda varies on a case by case basis for me? When Varg claims his music isn't NSBM because his political views do not show up in the lyrics, i'm inclined to say "fuck off, nazi." But i can look past flaws if they're less severe than being a nazi or something like that. I can ignore Beck being in Scientology because it doesn't seem to show up in his work. I can look past artists having some bad takes, or some really weird views, and i can definitely look past an artist being an average lib. That's stuff were i criticize the take, but not the person making that take if that person seems to be largely ok and just ill-informed. But when somebody's being actively bigotted, when it gets too chuddy, i have to draw the line somewhere.
A lot of rtj isn't even that good. Rtj3 is good not the rest is ehhhh. And a lot of his lyrics are just sexually fantasy.
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