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Music Appreciation

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highplainsdem

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Tue Jan 18, 2022, 11:07 AM Jan 2022

Eric Clapton - Promises [View all]





Editing to add, re some comments below, that I separate my appreciation of someone's music, especially music I loved for years before I heard they'd said or done something I objected to, from my opinion of what they said.

As a woman and a feminist, if I let my feminist evaluation of how many rock and blues artists treat women decide whether I was allowed to like their music, there would be relatively few left to appreciate.

I have a lot of RW relatives I still love and appreciate. People I can view as the complex persons they are, in all their facets. I can see what's good about them even while objecting to things they've said.

I don't see any reason to view artists differently.

We're not voting for lawmakers here, after all. We're appreciating music.


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