Needles & Grooves

Don't get me wrong - the guy is an asshole. But I still like the music. Are we allowed to separate the art from the artist?

Whatever allows you to sleep at night.

Yep, up to you.

You can watch and listen to whatever you want.

We'll leave it up to you to decide

People are still debating if Johnny Depp deserved cancellation but I'm not getting into that shit

Separate art from the artist is perfectly fine to do it just depends if you have enough of a connection to the music...

Cancel culture doesn’t exist. It’s all about self awareness. Enjoy what ever you’re going to enjoy but decide to yourself whether you want to give that enjoyment a stage that promotes the arseholes work. Also accept that other people are going to do the opposite and blacklist and that it’s their prerogative too.

So for example I still listen to MJ, Kanye, and brand new. But got different reasons (mj is just anything before dangerous, Kanye I know he suffers mentally, and I feel like I'm a way Jesse apologized on science fiction fairly well). But I'm some cases I can never forgive people (Chris brown, Tory lanez, lostprophets)
Hell I still listen to some of Xs music even when I hate what he did

You can't cancel culture just like you can't cancel the truth

I can't say I'm running out of my house to buy up all the Cosby albums at Goodwill and I haven't played Whirr for a long ass time. I happen to like the music Manson released more than those other examples.

Everyone feels a little different about it and I think that should be allowed. For me personally, I still listen to some of my favorites (Brand New, Clapton) but I find myself going down a train of thought I never wanted to when I put them on and it puts the equivalent of a sour taste in my ear. Any enjoyment from the music is almost nullified by this, and then I just get really angry and yeah.... it sucks

Do what you gotta do. How many people own that Charles Manson album?

I can listen to my old Smiths albums but I am not spending a dime on anything Morrissey does in the present. I may spin an old Manson CD, but again - not going to buy anything at present. A used album wouldn't give him money, either.

Cancel Culture is such phony BS.

@TenderLovingKiller® I agree. It's usually people claiming they are a "victim" of "cancel culture" after they have been shown to have victimized others. Or people claiming others are a victim of it because they can't handle that something/someone they love has performed acts others hate. Like their love can't exist in a space where others hurt.

Oops. @Lord Diaper Baby I stand corrected, Marjorie Taylor Green just said on the House floor that “Cancel Culture is a real thing”. Clearly I am wrong.

@TenderLovingKiller® I stand corrected too....because no love shares that space

Never been a fan but now probably isn’t the best time to sell.

"Cancel culture" = consequences.