I think this whole thread has overlapped things that have fought to do
nothing with one another.
On AT doing pills: If Richard James wants to put on a sequence dress and
lip liner on his forehead then pop 20 stomach acid caps followed by cat
tranquilizers and then claim drugs are bad, it's his business.No one else's.
Following the behavioral patterns of artists is how icons and role models
are made and how disappointment in the artist (read:music) is made.I thought
electronic music was not about icons-but more about the art itself.
Admiration is one thing but..well you get the point.
On the sell out topic: What an artist feels fit to do in order to insure
their future and the future of their families is their business as well. Who
is any one to judge what some one else does to put food on their table if
it's not directly harming someone else? And if does harm someone than that's
between those individuals-no one else.We went through this on the 313 thread
with the Focus commercial & Atkins's No UFO's and concluded the same
thing.Again, Following the behavioral patterns of artists is how icons and
role models are made and how disappointment is made. Open any magazine like
URB or otherwise and all over are DJs selling clothes etc...so it's a topic
that was basically dead in the water a long time ago.IMHO
For such a long time people in the industry have fought a verbal war to
separate the stigma that listening to electronic music leads to drugs. It's
as if, if you played every electronic music record backwards out creeps the
lyrics "do E, do accessed, buy glowsticks and light your parents on fire".
Clearly, Ozzy's already tackled that creative territory.(kidding).As the
heavy metalist have defined-it's not the music, but the personal choice/path
of the consumer.
Drugs is a personal issue, but in a larger scale a very social one as well
that will never be concluded because of reasons on much hugger political and
social scales that vary from country to country.
just my opinion.
d
-----Original Message-----
From: T. Shaikewitz [mailto:tshake@photodex.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:20 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] Anti-Drug commercial
So I saw the Aphex Twin Anti-Drug commercial down here in Texas. All in all
I think it's a positive commercial, if there can be such a thing. It's
definitely a step above the little kid peddling drugs on the school
playground type ads.
http://www.whatsyourantidrug.com I can only seem to find one commercial
that is streamed but I really didn't look that deep into the site.
-ts
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