deefstes wrote:
Donovan Banks wrote:Maybe a person with different tastes might feel different, or feel that way about a new Seether album.
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By "a person with different tastes" you mean someone who approve of men brutally assaulting women, who thinks that unprotected sex is super fun, loves misogynistic lyrics? Yeah, I can see how a person with those tastes would feel differently...
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Well... therein lies the problem. Because it's easy to take this kind of stance when the music isn't great and the woman who got beat up is very famous.
Chris Brown is by no means the first person to perform songs with misogynistic lyrics. If you find that kind of subject matter repugnant then consign your Rolling Stones and Elton John records to the bin - and that's just the start.
Beating up on women? Oops... there go John Lennon *, Sid Vicious, Def Leppard (Rick Allen was convicted of assaulting his wife) and James Brown (and that's not an exhaustive list).
Paedophilia? Jimmy Page, Bill Wyman, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis (who, to be fair, married the girl concerned, though she was his cousin, but it was legal where he came from) and Gary Glitter.
And we could go on... pick your vice.
Chris Brown is an easy target because he's not blessed with great talent. He's an even easier target if you don't like contemporary R 'n B. But when the artist is massively talented, or when the abhorrent behaviour is a bit closer to musical home then the waters get muddier.
* Lennon did learn to control himself, though 'fessing up to a violent nature. The lines "I used to be cruel to my woman / I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" are autobiographical, but also past tense.
