Can you separate the artist as a person from the music? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by EarWorm@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I personally can't listen to Guns and Roses without immediately thinking "that Axl sure is an asshole", and that sours the entire experience.

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[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Unless you're around your more sanctimonious friends, then you can but you'll never hear the end of it, and they won't apologize when, after deriding you for hours, it turns out Bob Dylan wasn't even in the same country at the time he was accused of committing those improprieties.

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