penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:26 pm

kicker_of_elves wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:16 pm Are there artists who make mediocre at-best music that you might otherwise not have time for, but behave or act in such a way that you like them enough to give them a listen?

Who here doesn't have friends in bands ;

gurrrrl....

Beyonce. She seems like a good role model, and her Super Bowl performances have been kickass. But I enjoy very little of her music.

penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:31 am Or another variation is the super 'woke' dude/ally-type who turns out to have been really shitty to his ex partners.

whoa, that describes a toxic dude I know to a t. he's kind of the defacto leader of the DIY scene my gf is a part of. he cheated on his now ex-wife, because he was "depressed". then when people told him that's a weak excuse, he pivoted to "she cheated on me too!!!". he also dated my gf's bff before that marriage, and he was a gaslighting piece of shit then as well. he ran for the local school board and finished dead last. it came out that he was fired from his second teaching position in as many years.

he also claims to suffer from "imposter syndrome". right, the self-righteous blowhard on social media and in the flesh.

kicker_of_elves wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 12:16 pm I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it.

Are there artists who make mediocre at-best music that you might otherwise not have time for, but behave or act in such a way that you like them enough to give them a listen? I am clearly not the target market for Taylor Swift, but she is really intentional and generous with her philanthropy (plus she puts a bee in Kanye West's bonnet to boot), so I won't switch the station if a T-Swizzle song comes on.

I don't think they're "bad" per se, but Pearl Jam do a ton to support charities and causes, and from everything I've heard from my friends who've worked with them in some capacity, they're all great dudes, but they haven't done anything musically I'm interested in since the 90s.

AdamN wrote:

penningtron wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 10:31 am Or another variation is the super 'woke' dude/ally-type who turns out to have been really shitty to his ex partners.

whoa, that describes a toxic dude I know to a t.

Yeah, I've encountered it several times by now. And embarrassingly, it took a woman pointing it out with detailed incidents each time for me and many others to notice. I don't know why a self-proclaimed "male feminist" seemingly having a new girlfriend every other month didn't raise any red flags for me..

AdamN wrote: he also claims to suffer from "imposter syndrome".

Sounds like that's true just not in the way that term is meant to be used!

I always hated The Smiths so hating Morrissey has been easy

For artists that I've loved for a long time, I'm not throwing out their records after I hear they're a piece of shit. I take pause buying new stuff from someone who's a piece of shit, like if they're really terrible but I like their record I'll just download it so I'm not giving financial support to a real garbage ass. But if a record kicks ass, I'm probably going to listen to it regardless of how terrible the artist behind it is.

Duff McKagan seemed like a nice enough guy, but I still wouldn't listen to GNR.

Just remembered that my old band had a phrase for nice guys in mediocre bands that eventually became a song title: "Big Hearts, Small Riffs".

tallchris wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 4:21 pm nice guys in mediocre bands that eventually became a song title: "Big Hearts, Small Riffs".

FM Dave Grohl seems like the epitome of this concept.