Do you still listen to a certain artist. Even after the subject matter they preach about. They themselves don't keep to it?

A good example of this is Lauryn Hill. She preached about not being a home wrecker. Not letting men control you and having multiple kids by a man that didn't love you. Yet she was cheating with Wyclef when she was married. AKA a home wrecker she had multiple kids with Rohan Marley. Who left her after years and years of being together. Only to marry some other chick he dated for like half a year. And she was basically controlled by him in the long run. She went against a lot of things she stated in her music. So it becomes less genuine to me in that fact.

There's also a lot of metal and hip-hop groups. Who had some great songs about politics and social issues. But then it turns out some of them were just doing it for money. One of them was anti-Semitic asshole. And another spoke about not letting materialism control you. Yet he spent million on cars, strippers, and more strippers.

Do you still support an artist after that? do you still listen to the message? even if the artist goes against it.

Gunsnhalen said:

Do you still listen to a certain artist. Even after the subject matter they preach about. They themselves don't keep to it?

A good example of this is Lauryn Hill. She preached about not being a home wrecker. Not letting men control you and having multiple kids by a man that didn't love you. Yet she was cheating with Wyclef when she was married. AKA a home wrecker she had multiple kids with Rohan Marley. Who left her after years and years of being together. Only to marry some other chick he dated for like half a year. And she was basically controlled by him in the long run. She went against a lot of things she stated in her music. So it becomes less genuine to me in that fact.

There's also a lot of metal and hip-hop groups. Who had some great songs about politics and social issues. But then it turns out some of them were just doing it for money. One of them was anti-Semitic asshole. And another spoke about not letting materialism control you. Yet he spent million on cars, strippers, and more strippers.

Do you still support an artist after that? do you still listen to the message? even if the artist goes against it.

well i dont put much stock into these artists opinions so if i like the music i will still buy it.inever cared for 'preachy' entertainers, they always come off as having a superior complex, my thing is what makes you know more than me.i dont mind when they touch on subjects just dont try to preach to me like your shit dont stink. lauryn did come off as preachy at times.

I know an Amazingly gifted artist that changes his mind/plans so much that its difficult to count on anything he says..

I don't appreciate artists as one and the same with their art. That said, if a really good artist does something I can't get behind, I may simply find ways (preferably legal ) to access their work for free so as not to financially support them.

I seperate the music from the things in the media you hear about an artist.

You can have a real asshole for an artist, but if they make great music, i listen.

An artist would have to do something really dire for me not to listen to their music anymore--like kill somebody.

I listen to some country music, I imagine I would get into an argument with some of them good old boys if we got to talking about politics and personal beliefs. Same with those Norwegian black metal guys.

But as long as the music isn't about that, I can get into it. I'll even jam out to Ted Nugent if Stranglehold comes on the radio.

The only time I would stop listening to an artist I liked, would be if they did something so morally repugnant to me that I couldn't listen to their stuff without being reminded of the foul shit they did. R Kelly comes to mind, so does Gary Glitter. I never listened to Lostprophets and ain't about to start.

If it was someone whose music I liked BECAUSE of the righteous message, and they betrayed the cause... well.... it's hard to say what I would do because I don't like any bands for their righteous message.

Some great bands have a very un-righteous message, but turn out to be nice guys in real life. That's OK too. It's just art. You can be in a room full of punkers and all scream "Kill the hippies!" in unison when the band starts playing a song called "Kill The Hippies". Nobody's going to actually do that. Nobody really has anything against hippies. It's just... I dunno.... fun to be a little extreme in a safe entertainment envoronment sometimes.

I'm not sure if this is the same thing but I used 2 dig Ceelo Green but after this rape nonsense, I refuse 2 listen or support him at this point.

bobzilla77 said:

I listen to some country music, I imagine I would get into an argument with some of them good old boys if we got to talking about politics and personal beliefs. Same with those Norwegian black metal guys.

But as long as the music isn't about that, I can get into it. I'll even jam out to Ted Nugent if Stranglehold comes on the radio.

The only time I would stop listening to an artist I liked, would be if they did something so morally repugnant to me that I couldn't listen to their stuff without being reminded of the foul shit they did. R Kelly comes to mind, so does Gary Glitter. I never listened to Lostprophets and ain't about to start.

If it was someone whose music I liked BECAUSE of the righteous message, and they betrayed the cause... well.... it's hard to say what I would do because I don't like any bands for their righteous message.

Some great bands have a very un-righteous message, but turn out to be nice guys in real life. That's OK too. It's just art. You can be in a room full of punkers and all scream "Kill the hippies!" in unison when the band starts playing a song called "Kill The Hippies". Nobody's going to actually do that. Nobody really has anything against hippies. It's just... I dunno.... fun to be a little extreme in a safe entertainment envoronment sometimes.

The country thing reminded me of something. I sometimes can ignore an artists personal life. if the music is not a reflection. For example if a country artist is saying love who you wanna love. Then he goes around bashing gay people & interracial marriage. I'll be like wtf but if he his subjects are thing's he doesn't contradict himself on. I usually just let their other bullshit go on ignore

Graycap23 said:

I'm not sure if this is the same thing but I used 2 dig Ceelo Green but after this rape nonsense, I refuse 2 listen or support him at this point.

That is absloutely true there seems to have been conflicting stories. And i wanted to believe Cee-Lo wasn't capable of that. But then he went on that twitter tyrade -.- wher ehe said some disgusting and questonable shit. I've been very on the fence with him since then. And i haven't heard anything from him since then. He was once a media darling too. Now... not so much.

Gunsnhalen said:

Graycap23 said:

I'm not sure if this is the same thing but I used 2 dig Ceelo Green but after this rape nonsense, I refuse 2 listen or support him at this point.

That is absloutely true there seems to have been conflicting stories. And i wanted to believe Cee-Lo wasn't capable of that. But then he went on that twitter tyrade -.- wher ehe said some disgusting and questonable shit. I've been very on the fence with him since then. And i haven't heard anything from him since then. He was once a media darling too. Now... not so much.

Once he made the following comment, i was done: "It isn't rape if she was asleep".

I don't like it when some artists criticise other artists for selling out, usually concerning an over-sexed image but then go and do it themselves 1 or 2 albums down the line when their own sales start to dry up.

I still listen to them. I realize that if an artist is being really honest with their lyrics, it might be something they struggle with themselves and project it onto their audience! In some cases, the artist is almost the opposite of their persona because they are TRYING to get there on a personal level. Make sense?

That's why you see studio gangstas come out with graduation caps and priveleged upbringings, and vice versa.

If you want to talk about PREACH, I am sure there are some gospel performers with scandalous lives