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There is no true, clean, definitive way to Separate the Art from the Artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning.
I can mourn the artist. I can mourn the person, to the extent you can mourn a person you never met. But I can also mourn my naïve, saintly image of that person, when I’m given yet more compelling evidence that being one of the Greatest Artists of Your Generation does not automatically make you one of the Greatest Humans of Your Generation.
it’s getting close to your favorite line in your favorite song, and you stop what you’re doing and stand perfectly still and filter out all other distractions so you can more purely receive your favorite line in your favorite song?
This phrase one-hit wonder, despite being hella rude, is itself growing archaic, and we will miss it when it’s gone, and miss the one-hit wonders when they’re gone.
pop music changes illusions into something real, something wondrous, all the time. And sometimes one song is all it takes.
A song that compels you to gladly humiliate yourself is the mark of true greatness.
What I also know is that back then, paging through somebody’s CD book was the single most intimate activity you could engage in with another human being.
