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OrthodoxEaster wrote:

Krev wrote: I don't think Sonic Youth need to be retroactively canceled despite being dicks to Narduwar.

You're too late, friend. There's definitely a Thurston-had-an-affair-so-he-must-be-a-sexist-pig-and-I-can't-listen-to-him-anymore element online that was making a lot of noise for a spell, if not quite canceling the band outright. Thankfully, it seems to have died down lately. Personally, I think people's marriages aren't anyone's business except maybe their own and/or their kids'. But the new puritans (to quote the Fall) of the digital age seem to think otherwise. [musters best grandpa voice] Reminds me of churchy housewives commenting on tabloid-celeb behavior in the '80s, I'll tell you. I do long for the days when nonmainstream culture seemed "above" such triflings.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:31 pm People were 100% telling on themselves left and right when Sonic Youth broke up. They are not your mom and dad

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:31 pm People were 100% telling on themselves left and right when Sonic Youth broke up. They are not your mom and dad

twelvepoint wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:41 pm

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:31 pm People were 100% telling on themselves left and right when Sonic Youth broke up. They are not your mom and dad

I get what you’re putting down, but there was definitely a period of my adolescence where music, and probably some individual bands, had a bigger influence on me than my parents.

jeff fox wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:25 pm

OrthodoxEaster wrote:

Krev wrote: I don't think Sonic Youth need to be retroactively canceled despite being dicks to Narduwar.

You're too late, friend. There's definitely a Thurston-had-an-affair-so-he-must-be-a-sexist-pig-and-I-can't-listen-to-him-anymore element online that was making a lot of noise for a spell, if not quite canceling the band outright. Thankfully, it seems to have died down lately. Personally, I think people's marriages aren't anyone's business except maybe their own and/or their kids'. But the new puritans (to quote the Fall) of the digital age seem to think otherwise. [musters best grandpa voice] Reminds me of churchy housewives commenting on tabloid-celeb behavior in the '80s, I'll tell you. I do long for the days when nonmainstream culture seemed "above" such triflings.

Agreed. People being described as ‘abusive’ because of their infidelity is fucking bullshit. Kids need to get a fucking grip. It’s none of our fucking business.