this is a cool post and is v. appreciated
really gets to me the way some people dismiss them with such ire, in bad faith ways. I increasingly find that even if a band or artist is cynical/artless/shitty people/etc, I donāt want to be dismissive in a way that dismisses peopleās like of the music (Iām sure I have bad days and slip up on this, mind)
likeā¦ who are we to still be like that? whereās the humility? idk. Iāve felt so empty/in such pain since last year that much of the time, the lack of inherent meaning, quality, essence of any kind in anything is no kind of abstract, is an oppressive reality.
if anything makes anyone feels something, as long as itās not obvs evil, then thatās cool, thatās something unbearably precious/important, and I donāt want to spoil that for anyone by wading in like, ānahhh this is shiteā.
also makes me sad that people might have fallen out of love - feels like something that runs parallel to the downturn in the bandās output, like life had similar deleterious effects on both or somethinā
aaand it puzzles me when people like some stuff but havenāt been able to open up to other stuff
Iām sat on a bench under a nice shelter thing near Big Tesco, about to cycle home, but Iāve stuck on āSpirit Theyāve Goneā¦ā and Iām trying to make the most of feeling something other than traumatised, and [big emotional post that isnāt even the attempt I had planned to describe what I love about the band]
