Accountability in Music • Page 480

I’m pretty confident in saying that Jesus wouldn’t encourage you to risk your life to attend church for a pagan holiday.

 

Aren’t all the Hanson bros problematic?

 

They’re from Oklahoma. It all adds up.

 

He needs to MMMStop posting

 

Related: Hanson Is Facing a Mutiny From Its Own Fans

 

"But the aggrieved fans stress that they don't actually want to see Hanson cancelled in any way, and instead are hoping for accountability and acknowledgement that their pain matters."

I think the loss of this point (in general, not just in this case) is my least favorite thing about the "cancel culture" discourse. So much of what all of this is about is supposed to be about accountability and healing, not about destruction. And it gets lost because people are deliberately disingenuous to avoid accountability (and some folks absolutely co-opt the movement just to get some licks in, but in my estimation that's a much less important issue since they didn't create the mess, even if they're not helping).

 

dude you told a magazine you want to beat her with a sledgehammer

 

Octavian, the British/French rapper based in London, who won the BBC Sound of 2019 list, has his debut album coming out tomorrow.

He is currently trending in the UK because it turns out he is a violent abuser and his team are all complicit. Rumours the label may drop him the day before the album drops.

Here's a thread:

And here is the brave woman herself, massive trigger warning on these posts so be careful

 

Wow I’d never heard of him until his recent Gorillaz feature. Hope his label drops him. That should be a career ender.

 

Jesus. Awful, awful stuff. Fuck him.

 

I long for the day when survivors of DV no longer feel the need to say "I never thought I'd be the kind of person who'd fall victim to this".

Not judging them for doing it, I've said similar things. I understand where that discourse comes from. It's just so damn wrong the way we (as a society) culturally perpetuate that idea.

 

Rapper Octavian dropped by label over domestic abuse allegations

 

Holy shit, the day before the album was due to come out. Brutal and brilliant. Fair play to the label, they must be taking a big hit on this one.

 

I don’t listen to Deftones really so I don’t know if he has always been like this, but someone just shared this in The Metal Thread and well...this is disturbing. He also said COVID is a hoax.

Deftones Guitarist Stephen Carpenter is a Flat-Earther and an Anti-Vaxxer | MetalSucks

 

Fan of the band for a decade and I had no idea but he's apparently always been like this and has spent a quarter century stoned off his gourd from the looks of things.

 

I am personally not a part of the "weed fries your brain" crank contingent but.... he makes a pretty good case on their behalf

 

Deftones are one of my favorite bands of all time. This is incredibly disappointing to hear

 

Massive weed + deep recesses of the internet will do that to someone. I know because it’s happening to one of my old college buddies. It’s sad and it sucks that people find themselves in these holes where they’ll believe literally anything.

 

Idk man I smoke a lot of weed and even at my highest, I would not be able to get through a flat earth conspiracy theory without busting out laughing. Marijuana usage does not have a long term impact on critical thinking skills. The education system in the US does not cultivate critical thinking and it looks like Stephen Carpenter, like many Americans, never developed that skill on his own time. Imma still listen to Deftones though

 

For every string he added, he lost a part of his mind.

 

That’s a valid situation of separating art from the artist. People can have stupid fucking beliefs all they want if they’re not in regards to human rights. It doesn’t make them a bad person, it just makes them gullible. Ima always listen to Deftones

 

completely smooth brained

 

Right on. I didn’t mean to insinuate that smoking marijuana makes you dumb because that is simply not true. However, I’ve found that it makes some folks more susceptible to influence with things that are “mind blowing, brooooooo”. Like “ever see a $20 bill... ON WEED?!” That’s what Steph is doing and it’s highly laughable.

 

This deserves to be the most-liked post this week