Can you separate the artist as a person from the music? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by EarWorm@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I personally can't listen to Guns and Roses without immediately thinking "that Axl sure is an asshole", and that sours the entire experience.

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[-] EarWorm@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Wait, Anthony Kiedis!? That's news to me.

[-] metaphortune@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It was to me too, had to go looking - guessing this from Wikipedia is what it was:

Kiedis acknowledges in his autobiography Scar Tissue that he had sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl when he was 23, before and after learning of her age, in the 1980s. This inspired him to write the song "Catholic School Girls Rule".

[-] c10l@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

Not defending anyone here, but a paedophile is someone who’s sexually attracted to prepubescent children. I believe these days it’s extended to the early stages of puberty as well.

Most girls are well over that phase at age 14.

A 23 year-old having sex with a 14 year old may be morally and legally wrong depending on culture and jurisdiction, but the cases where it’s actual paedophilia are likely a small minority.

Again, I’m not defending anyone, but calling every person who’s attracted to minors a paedophile only serves to diminish the effect of the actual ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

[-] metaphortune@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I love clarifications like this! Good on ya.

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