(April 23, 2009 at 3:37 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote:(April 23, 2009 at 3:26 pm)bozo Wrote: I didn't feel guilty about this before, but I do now!
Billy Ocean....Love Really Hurts, Carribean Queen...I love 'em BUT just read an interview with the man today and he believes EVERYTHING in the Bible from page 1 to whatever number the last page is!
Do I burn his cd's?
I'd guess that was fairly common in the soul music community ... I mean I liked Luther VanDross, I like Alexander O'Neal and I certainly liked some of Billy Ocean's stuff when I was a soulboy (and lost more besides). I mean, just to put it in perspective I like Augustus Pablo and Steel Pulse ... brilliant music but they're always on about Jah (Jah guide us, Jah give us victory, Babylon is falling 'n all that), I mean it's absolute bollocks but the music was so, so good. Rastafarians do seem to have a huge chip on their shoulders, thinking Babylon (Western Civilisation) owes them something ... I 'n I tink Rastaman be wrong man.
Kyu
Well on that matter, what about the following question.
Hypothetically speaking in an alternative universe if Hitler was a musician and made the most amazing music ever made and it sounded totally awesome - would you still like the music but still despise him (obviously) because he was a totally evil shit?
Or would you just not be able to bring yourself to like anything made by him and bypass the fact it 'sounded good'?
To simplify it: Could you like music made by someone you despised, and were a criminal or war criminal to the degree of murder or even mass murder - IF the music was just incredibly amazing?
Could you compartmentalize like that or would it just be way too much?
Very bizarre question I know, but I think about shit like this all the time lol (I know, I know, - I'm weird). Been thinking about this 1 for a while - can you separate your musical ( or whatever) etc, tastes from your hatred from the person who created it - because they're evil?
For example, If your favourite musicians and bands killed people or whatever - would you ditch their music too or just them and leave the music entirely separate from them?
I mean the main problem for me would be thinking that "THIS music came out of THAT sick and twisted person's MIND".
Perhaps this could do with a separate thread of some kind but perhaps be a bit more general a topic? Perhaps to do with compartmentalization on the matter or whatever?
EvF
