If y'all wanna keep listening to R Kelly go for it, "Happy People" and "Love Letter" are both very great songs I get it. But y'all really need to stop tryna go so hard at people for not wanting to listen to him at all lol you know exactly why they don't wanna listen to dude, and you're always gonna look like a weirdo my guy

Maybe because Lori Maddox was recollecting it as something she was excited about and had no shame about it. If she wrote it and said "I was traumatized the older I got" then maybe the view would be different. Idk fam I'm not a David Bowie fan.

With all respect due to Paul Walker, homie just wasn't that popular a name (outside of Fast And Furious fame) for anyone to really care until he died.

the irony

all of the ones I listened to before the canceling

I just think it’s unreasonable to not expect random people to look at you sideways when you’re playing a song by someone we all know to be a prolific rapist.

It's unreasonable? Sure

Doesn't make it any less ridiculous.

Tbh

R. Kelly is sick and disgusting. he is where he belongs. i have no problem with someone making deciding not to listen to him. i have a problem with people who act like they deserve a Nobel Prize for making that decision and look down on people who don't make that decision

also people like @insertcoolnamehere who say "well everyone was f***ing teenage groupies back then" about rock stars who escaped repercussions are just making my point for me

in the 60's and 70's, bands would hire off duty cops to lie to parents and keep parents away from hotels when parents came looking for their kids. there were entire groupie magazines. so we have no idea what behaviors that are common today will be seen as disgusting in 30 years. hell, Obama ran against gay marriage in 2008 and didn't change his position until 2012. culture moves fast

I see that someone replied to my post, but I can't see what they said...KTT block feature coming thru

I think it depends on what they're cancelled for and your prior relationship to their music.

I don't rock with Kanye's recent views such as anti-vaxx, religion not being separate from the government, etc. but I still enjoy all his music the same. If some f***ed up s*** came out about him it wouldn't change the impact his discography has on me, and I'd still listen to his first 7 solos, KSG, WTT, etc.

But with R Kelly I didn't know much about his music except for Ignition, I believe I can fly, some features, etc. so his f***ed up actions just made me not to check out his discog.

"well everyone was f***ing teenage groupies back then"

there you go claiming statements that I never said. lol.

ok, "it was a different era"

someone else said something along the lines of "it was common back then." which is true

crazy how people won’t listen to to artists because of wack s*** they said but will listen to artists regardless of wack s*** they actually DO

I keep saying that in reference to you keep bringing up s*** like spotify my nigga.

how you forget your own points.

Most of the ones I listened to before except the pedos and rapists

Can't listen to an R. Kelly song anymore without thinking that he's talkin bout underage girls

Listening to T.I in 2021

but again, spotify only mentioned R. Kelly and XXXtentacion. in the entire universe of music, why them?

Because for the umpteenth time. Those two were the topic of discussion and were actively under investigation around the same time.

Jesus you are stubborn.

and again, why is that? Paul Walker was a movie star. David Bowie was a legend. And according to you, no one knew or cared until they died. and why is it that when white guys did bad things, there was no collective uproar to the extent that a billion dollar company felt the need to create a (poorly thought out, hastily discarded) "hate conduct" policy

you're just thinking very surface level about all of this s***. but it makes sense because your posts show you are a surface level thinker

Dying before you were outed isn’t an excuse

Idk the full story with Bowie but if he was a pedo and didn’t get caught till after he was dead ppl should be calling him out and not listening to his s*** like they do to R. Kelly

That being said if you’re on the other side and choose to listen to all music no matter the artists past I get that too but can’t pick and choose who to get mad at and who not to. In my opinion

all of them

lol spotify was founded in 2006. in the entire time it had existed, no white artists had been under investigation? no white artists had done anything bad? suddenly, two black dudes are in the news and it's enough to warrant a new policy? lol