Hmm. Maybe I’ll give her a listen. I don’t normally do pop, but... What could it hurt?
Drop him or her.
thank god i have zero pop stars
So tell me, they are not ideologically opposed to us? Don’t waste my time, I don’t listening to these clowns.
Big CCR fan as a kid. Kills me to this day that Fogerty is a big lefty.
One of my music and songwriting heroes from way back; Todd Rundgren really disappointed me with his anti-Trump remarks and brash intolerance to anything not extreme left.
I’m thinking he would not want me coming to any of his remaining concerts.
His hateful attitude got me down a little until I remembered that no matter how rude and how nasty the Todd Rundgren of today has become in his bitter, cranky dotage, I will always have his recordings and the memory of learning about music production from those recordings. So thanks for the memory Todd. It is mine forever.
So here's the TL;DR FreeRepublic version:
Frankly, people need to separate artists’ politics from their artistic achievement.
Wagner is an anti semite, therefore his operas are no good ?
Paul Robeson was a communist, therefore he can’t sing ?
Caravaggio hired a hitman to disfigure a former girlfriend, so his paintings are substandard ?
It’s nonsense. Appreciate their God-given artistic talent for what it is. rather than impose some politicized standard.
I’ve been at odds with some of my musical heroes for many years.
One forum I go to to discuss an artist’s work is very very liberal.
I tell people that I don’t tell artist x how to play, and artist x doesn’t tell me how to vote.
How many weeks after Kent State was it still being called a violent insurrection and how much of the blame was on the people who got shot?
It depends. If they simply have different views no problem. If they advocate censorship or harassment of me or my groups then they can FOAD.
> neo-Nazis with pipe bombs
false allegation and Lefties carried out THOUSANDS of bombings in the 1970s in the USA.
Weather Underground didn’t even start until 1970 and was active into the mid-80s.
FUNME
NME is butthurt that Morrissey mourns the loss of British English culture.
>>reveal their politics to be marginally to the right of Genghis Khan.
Sod off
Lefties piss on anyone to the right of Joseph Stalin.
Maybe grow up and stop worshipping mere people.
I’m pretty sure I’m not ideologically opposed to Ted Nugent. Although, Nuge would probably not call himself a pop star.
I wish all musicians were like Hendrix. He was heavily pressured by the Black Panthers and other radical leftists to push their messages and agendas. He graciously refused to do that. As a result, he is now remembered for his astounding guitar talent and the great songs he wrote, not some idiotic pandering to a satanic ideology. Sure, I can appreciate good music made by idiots who spout off leftist bullshit, but whenever I hear one of their songs it ruins it for me. I just can’t get past that. But it does provide some humor in my house. For instance, whenever a Bruce Springsteen (who I hate) song pops on the radio my wife looks at me with a mischievous smirk, waiting for me to say, “Ah! It’s Bruce Shitstain!”