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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why politics is so lame. A bunch of people on here pretending something was good because the other team doesn’t like it.

Prince’s halftime show was literally 1 million times better than this. Please let’s stop pretending this was any good just because Trump doesn’t like him. [b]Liking art because of politics is how art dies.[/quote][/b]

Agree with the bolded.[/quote]

LOL.

That is a view completely divorced from history and reality.  George Orwell said “all art is propaganda” because art and politics have ALWAYS been intertwined.  Art asks “how do we live?” and politics tries to answer.  Every painting, tv show, and piece of music you have ever seen have answered political questions, from Bad Bunny to Mr. Rogers to the Marvel movies.  They will always chase one another.[/quote]

Art is powerful for sure. However, when the message is if you lean this way, you must like ___, otherwise, you’re out of the club —  the art is no longer liked, the viewer who identifies with the club is forced to say they like it. [/quote]

Thank you! Knee jerk faux admiration for art because the other side doesn’t like it is literally how art dies.

I’m sure people on here wouldn’t agree with Miles Davis’ or James Brown’s treatment of women, but Kind of Blue is a masterpiece that will be talked about 500 years from now despite their politics.

No one will give a damn about Bad Bunny 10 years from now. [/quote]

I don't know a thing about Bad Bunny, and I probably never will. I'm just too old to care much about much of the "new" music; it sounds like noise to me, much like those who came before me probably felt about Jazz, rock and roll, rap, and hip hop.

When Jazz first came out, it wasn't accepted by anyone outside the counterculture; beatniks loved jazz, everyone else, not so much. The US didn't embrace Jazz, which is why, among many other reasons, so many artists left the US and found cultures that did accept their music. And when Miles Davis made his appearance, he wasn't immediately recognized as the greatest of all time by Jazz enthusiasts, quite the opposite. We can say the same about so many musical genres.

As to your second point, you compare 500 yrs to 10 yrs; none of us knows that Jazz will have any relevance in 500 years. Who knows, perhaps no one will know or care about Mozart in 500 yrs. Cultural significance is dynamic, and the values we place on it change as it evolves.

As to Bad Bunny, I can say with certainty that he will still have a wide audience in 10 years. [/quote]

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