Do you still listen to R. Kelly

[boogers]

its good music

he is a scumbag but

its good music

 

[Timbs]

Played 2 songs this weekend for the first time in like over a year

 

[Higher Tech]

yes

 

[winb83]

No, I find it reprehensible and disgusting. That said, how can those feelings carry over in a tangible fashion to his published works? Call it compartmentalization if you must but I think I can say safely that he is a horrible person that made fire ass music.

I don't maintain a line. Hell, I don't even think my favorite athlete of all time (Floyd Mayweather) is the greatest of people due to his domestic violence history but I can sure as hell recognize and appreciate his talent when he was boxing in real fights. It isn't like I know them personally as perhaps that would color my opinion of them differently. I know of them and the news that has been made for public consumption.

As simplistic as this might be, I realized long ago that good people can do bad things and bad people can do good things. Kells falls in the latter. If we ignored or minimized contributions from people deemed bad, we wouldn't have progressed as far as we have in a civilization because regardless of their character, their works have also impacted the fabric of our society.

Let's be real there's a level of detachment because the guy did stuff to people you don't know and while it was bad it has jack shyt to do with you. If he sexually abused your child you probably wouldn't be saying yeah he molested and abused my daughter but damnit he makes good music so I'll still listen.

People have to rationalize why it's ok to listen to a guy that did those things. That's where the cognitive dissonance kicks in and stuff gets said like separate the art from the artist. It smooths over the fact that you enjoy the work of a man that sexually abused children when in fact that's not really a bridge too far for you. That work you say is good is what elevated him to the status that made him a sexual abuser to those kids and women. The two are inextricably linked.

I'm in no way condemning anybody for it but at least own it. We all have lines of decency that if it gets crossed we'd say no more. He clearly hasn't crossed yours. To sit back and pretend like there is nothing on earth that man could do to ever cross that line is laughable.

You're absolutely right that bad people can do good things but listening to a particular artist music for entertainment is optional.

 

[Kingshango]

Bumping his music at work, nobody saying shyt.

 

[L. Deezy]

I do..

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

I do..

I don’t see nothing wronnnnngggg


I will still listen to him privately but done with bump in in the car

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

A new age rnb nikka woulda killed this

 

[ItWasWritten]

Heaven I need a huggggg

Isn’t anybody out there willing to embrace a thUuuuuuggggggg

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

This is just a way of saying you don't care what he did. There's a line an artist can cross that deads all that separate them from their art talk.

Nothing wrong with just saying "I don't really care what he did."

They are not the same thing, you can care and want to see him go to jail and still listen to his music as most people have their own memories associated with the music. Listening to Fiesta is not about R Kelly, it’s about the first beach party I went to with school friends. I believe I can fly is about 6th grade graduation, etc. the music is so beyond him, it’s about moments in my own life

 

[L $ C]

yes. the dude man gotham city

 

[Who Not How]

I fell off his music for a min naturally since Covid, not even thinking about his cases. I always stop listening to my favorite artists for a good minute.

Now the weather about to get warm and I gotta get my mind right for spring and summer. I'm about to dust off the classics.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

“I’m just an R&B thugggg, I just and R&B thug babe lookin for some love babe”.

 

[bigde09]

Was bumping 12 play the other day

 

[WMG the 2nd]

In my head he signing to underage girls so no