Are these times contagious

I've never been this bored before

Is this the prize I've waited for?

Now as the hours passing

There's nothing left here to insure

I long to find the messenger

Collective Soul / Run

From the most desperate and unknown place that he was at, he nailed it. Unreal the dedication.

Fitness - Karate

Ah yes, the But Rock. Ain’t nothing wrong with that

Tons of shitty singers out there with hits.

For me it did. I ripped all my cd’s to my iTunes then hit limewire or Napster or whoever to add what I didn’t want to buy a full cd of. Lots of one hit wonders who weren’t worth the $12.99 for the whole CD.

“All the things she said” TaTu

Losing a whole year… Third Eye Blind

Entry level, a couple soundtrack songs but never “popular”.

God Of Wine- Third Eye Blind

Losing a Whole year- Third eye blind.

Broken is a phenomenal song. I love the duet with his gravely voice and her pitch perfect voice, great balance to the song.

This is more difficult than naming a child..

Our Lady Peace - Somewhere out there

AFI - Girl’s not grey

Anberlin- Feelgood Drag

Audioslave- I am the highway

Eve 6 - Think Twice

Open Road Song - Eve 6

Blink 182 - Mark and Tom are what they need to be for a pop-punk outfit, no one will ever say (or really shouldn’t say) that they have incredible vocal chops.

So, first , I still listen to a couple of lostprophets songs. The memories I have associated with them have no connection to, don’t support or endorse and aren’t dictated by the evil that is their former singer. I don’t stream lostprophets or buy their music or anything that would generate revenue, so there isn’t that element either.

Second, if we start eliminating artists for crimes, you’ll have to stop listening to a lot of music . Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, R Kelly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sex Pistols, chuck berry, Vince Neil, the list goes on and on. Yes, the singer from LP is likely worse than all these people but it creates a slippery slope when we can’t disconnect an artist from the music.

I’m not a great singer but if there emotion and a connection to the song it works out well.

I like a lot of non traditional or not classically good singers.

Meg Myers is fantastic. Her voice, her lyrics, just raw like an open nerve.

Steven Tyler The lead singer of lostprophets (who is the worst ever) David Bowie Frank Sinatra

None of them angels, all made good music. I can separate the artist and the music, because my personal attachment to the music is guided or dictated by the artist but by my experience.

The only problem is buying the music makes them money through royalties, streaming, downloads and merch sales (cd’s?!) so, depending on your thoughts you could one way or another end up paying/supporting them (this point was recently made to me).

Jungle Love- Morris day and the MF’ing Time

Savage Garden (by extension Darren Hayes) are so underrated as a pop band (former band). Really well written, really well produced, fun with an ever so slight edge to some songs. Well played.

Soul coughing. 60% of the time it works, every time.

Yeah, this. A nice healthy mix of various 90’s songs helps out.

I don’t listen to streaming, and that makes me wonder if he’s seeing those pennies? Or if it’s going to a victim’s fund.

And they’re both wrong. Period. It’s safe to end it there.

Do you listen to the other bands mentioned?

So, I’m not a huge LostProphets fan, but I do like a handful of songs. I still listen to them. And it’s ok to still listen for a handful of reasons.

You didn’t commit nor do you endorse the crimes he committed. And let’s not say by listening you endorse it, because that’s not true no matter what hurt you have or what mental gymnastics you try and perform.

The songs can have a meaning to you or evoke a feeling for you that’s not the intent of the writer. What you attach to the music isn’t dictated by the author, music is art and art is subjective and personal.

Steven Tyler fleeced parents into signing over their teenage daughter so he could commit statutory rape on the regular. So did someone in Zepplin as did Bill Lyman with Mandy smith. There’s tons of examples of pedophilic behavior in the music industry. They aren’t as extreme , but they’re still sex crimes, statutory rape in these cases. I am in no way defending the behaviors of any of these individuals. They’re criminals plane and simple. So are our politicians, but we still abide by the laws they create. This went sideways fast in me so I’ll wrap it up.

All I’m saying is there is a way to separate art from the artists. If there isn’t then it loses it’s subjective nature and becomes a narrow interpretation .

Thanks for your time, I owe you a drink.