RDJ must be very proud... people are willing to fly in the face of FACTS
(re: racism and the drug war) in order to defend his integrity. Here's
another statistic for ya-- this one totally unscientific and drawn from my
own experience; take it for what it is: 90% of white people I know think
the drug war is not racist, and about 90% of non-white people I know think
it is. 90%=/=100%-10%, 90%==large majority. Try this at home folks, ask
all your friends. What does this mean? I dunno, I just think it's a
weird contradiction.
As for sellout-hood, I think RDJ's beliefs have no bearing whatsoever on
the quality of his art. Nor does his selling a song for use in a
commercial (if that's, in fact, what happened). An artist is an artist.
Look at Wagner... he was an anti-semite (Hitler's favorite composer), a
misogynist, and an all-around asshole, but he wrote some of the most
beautiful music ever invented. In my opinion. His attitudes make me
nauseous but his music makes me want to cry, it's so good (np: "Good
Friday Spell" from Parsifal, Richard Wagner). If RDJ believes that drug
use is evil and that the War on Drugs is a good way to end it, so what?
I'll by his discs anyway, cuz The Man had to pay him with money that could
be going towards locking up some poor kid for 30 years who got caught ONCE
with some weed. Money to RDJ=RDJ keeps living=more AFX music, and that's
a good thing. He's only a sellout if he takes money for doing something
that's contrary to his beliefs, and even that wouldn't have any bearing on
the quality of his music, would it? Only if he was writing political
propaganda music, I guess. Fuck "sellout." I can't wait till my music's
good enough to make me a sellout! Of course, I'd never try to sue
Napster... that's just stupid.
Zzb
--- Joshua Brown <josh@undertone.com> wrote:
quoted 21 lines man I hope he didn't approve this:
> man I hope he didn't approve this:
>
> I just heard one of his tracks used as the background for a pro-Drug War
>
> commercial here in the US...
>
> This is really sad and I consider it a betrayal, as if my opinion really
>
> mattered to him...
>
> But then again, artists being no-integrity loser hypocrites while at the
>
> same time being musical prodigies seems to be the norm...
>
> Now he's in the same bin as Metallica in my mind....
>
>
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