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Carol(e) King is a liberal Democrat, and campaigned against George W Bush. Never in a million years would she have spurned her audience to vote for him.
Unless there is some other mysterious Carol King singer you're referring to.
As a conservative type my options would be limited. (Five For Fighting, Gloria Estefan, The Ramones, and country music would be about it) Although I admit musicians that are really far-left do turn me off a bit.
More specific if they are vehemently for Pro-Choice activism, pro-Euthanasia activism, 911 conspiracy theories, Radical Islam, Anti-Catholicism, Mao, Castro, or Pinochet it turns me off in a big way. If they outright say their money is going to NARAL Pro-Choice America or a pro-euthanasia group or Maoist rebels or something then I would feel that I can't in good conscience buy their stuff. Pete Seeger's Communist leanings might make me avoid buying his stuff.
Take Mrs California. She spoke truth in public and ruined her career because of it. So we are supposed to lie to get ahead I guess. Hmmmm that sounds exactly like what politicians do.
Carol(e) King is a liberal Democrat, and campaigned against George W Bush. Never in a million years would she have spurned her audience to vote for him.
Unless there is some other mysterious Carol King singer you're referring to.
I dont know what a liberal democrap is but I do know she advised the audience to vote for the Dictator. If what you say is right I guess a million years was up.
I'd rather not know their politics, or have it be the focus of their...persona.
It's about the music, or the acting, or whatever. Not that they don't have a right to an opinion, but it's of no more value than my own.
I don't know, about the only ones I've heard that I can't agree with their politics are Ted Nugent or Toby Keith. Even Merle Haggard's changed his stance a bit. He's not so much the "if you don't love it, leave it" kind of guy he used to be.
Have you ever stopped "liking" the music of an artist because you found out that they disagree with your own politics, sexual identiy, personal comportment, etc? Why would that make any difference to whether you enjoy listening to their work or not? The classic example would be the Dixie Chicks, but there are many others whose careers have been affected by a public that refused to listen to music that they really liked, or in the opposite case, started to endure music that they didn't like, making the shift for political reasons.
Norman Podhoretz once wrote (in the introduction to his book The Bloody Crossroads, a collection of his literary criticism) that it was possible to adore a work of literature while deploring its message or its creator's message, even as it was possible to deplore a work of literature while admiring its message or its creator's message. This works for music and, really, any work of art.
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