She has certainly said and done some stuff that I disagree with. Her "art over all" attitude is marked with privilege. To my mind, the good outweighs the bad. But I am a stan, and your mileage may certainly vary.
It just made me sad because I wanted to like and support her. But she is hugely resisitant to accepting crit of her actions, and doesn’t ever seem to make sincere apologies. Like, the whole “joke” about the KKK was a super hurtful hipster racist moment that she never really addressed, to my knowledge.
As Sady Doyle - who knows a thing or two about hate on the internet - wrote:
A woman who has been told, over and over, for years, that she is an idiot, a narcissist, talentless, worthless, unworthy of being paid or listened to, unworthy of being anything other than hated, will almost certainly not become more receptive to criticism. She will become hostile to it, or at least immune. She must petrify, or shatter.
Yeah, alright. I mean, I still enjoy Girl Anachronism and Coin-Operated Boy (which I first heard in drag performances), but I have steered clear since Evelyn Evelyn.
I can also acknowledge that my anger over the KKK tweet is tied up in the fact I'm a historian, and that several critiques of that tweet linked to the site Without Sanctuary, which I had never heard of. So, I discovered she had made that tweet, and then I spent half an hour clicking through an archive of lynching postcards, and then spent the rest of the afternoon disconnected from the internet, crying. Which both is and isn't even about her—she didn't make the KKK do those things. But she did make light of them, and she did not ever apologize or even acknowledge how hurtful that is, as far as I know.
Anyway, sorry for the monster side-thread of angst on your music post here. retreats into the darkness in search of hot cocoa and ibuprofen
She has certainly said and done some stuff that I disagree with. Her "art over all" attitude is marked with privilege. To my mind, the good outweighs the bad. But I am a stan, and your mileage may certainly vary.
It just made me sad because I wanted to like and support her. But she is hugely resisitant to accepting crit of her actions, and doesn’t ever seem to make sincere apologies. Like, the whole “joke” about the KKK was a super hurtful hipster racist moment that she never really addressed, to my knowledge.
As Sady Doyle - who knows a thing or two about hate on the internet - wrote:
And I'll point out to stuff like her work for refugees to show another side.
But, again, I'm a stan. She's a problematic fave, to be sure.
Yeah, alright. I mean, I still enjoy Girl Anachronism and Coin-Operated Boy (which I first heard in drag performances), but I have steered clear since Evelyn Evelyn.
I can also acknowledge that my anger over the KKK tweet is tied up in the fact I'm a historian, and that several critiques of that tweet linked to the site Without Sanctuary, which I had never heard of. So, I discovered she had made that tweet, and then I spent half an hour clicking through an archive of lynching postcards, and then spent the rest of the afternoon disconnected from the internet, crying. Which both is and isn't even about her—she didn't make the KKK do those things. But she did make light of them, and she did not ever apologize or even acknowledge how hurtful that is, as far as I know.
Anyway, sorry for the monster side-thread of angst on your music post here. retreats into the darkness in search of hot cocoa and ibuprofen