Did a book or article ever turn you off to an artist's music?

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After reading Clinton Heylin's biography on Van Morrison, I can barely listely to his music anymore. Morrison comes across as a mere asshole, but the book has truly diminished my taste for his music ... to the point where I hate Heylin as well.

Yet learning that Miles Davis beat all his women and was a pathetic drug addict -- more serious offenses, many would agree -- didn't diminish my love for his music in the least.
Why is that?

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

article do all the time....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 23 January 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

An article in Rolling Stone in which Joni Mitchell and Morrissey interviewed each other (and agreed that Ross Perot was incredibly charismatic - normal people who didn't get this were ignorant scum)put me off their works for 5 or so years in the case of Morrissey and only this year with Joni Mitchell (and even then only through finding a record collector had sold her collection allowing me to buy it all for $1 a piece.

― Jedmond, Friday, 23 January 2004 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My opinion of Paul Westerberg certainly lessened after reading the Replacements chapter of Our Band Could Be Your Life.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Rmember the Vines? I don't either. But I heard something about them and thought "I'll listen to em sometime". I saw a cover story on them in Rolling Stone, didn't read the article, and throught "o nevermind that, then."

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

A neat story, yeh.
...So that's what "turn you off to an artist" means?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 23 January 2004 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that vines article in RS would make an all time POX for this thread. I really can't think of a feature article that makes an artist look like a bigger jackass. Oddly enough, I don't think the RS article was a slam piece, which makes it even worse.

― Former Supposed So Called Nihilist Teenage Drug Disco Addiction Counselor (mjt), Friday, 23 January 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i try to avoid reading too much about musicians i like nowadays, for this very reason - a thom yorke interview i read a few years back made me feel bad about liking radiohead (not that i ever have, much).

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 23 January 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not familiar with the the Van Morrison thing, but short of being an axe nurderer, I don't think I could be turned off to his music. We all liked OJ way back when, but he definitely lost his lustre when he murdered his ex-wife. I realize that's not about song. Van could do virtually nothing to tarnish his MUSICAL reputation. Who'd have wanted Ike Turner for a spouse? But the contributions to the greater thing called rock n roll benefitted us all. I used to own a VW Beetle - designed, in part, by that idiot Hitler guy. I never gave it a thought. Your next door neighbor is cool with you, but maybe he's an asshole to his dog. Sorry, four drinks...

― jimwentworth (wench), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

.. minimum.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 January 2004 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that I liked him before, but did anyone read the Damien Rice interview in NME ages ago? What a whiny little bastard.

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Friday, 23 January 2004 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

No-one I can think of that I liked first then did not like.

GazGlit, JonKing I never liked their music anyway.

DamAlb, LouReed are either not nice or seems a bit of a prat, but I like their stuff anyhow.

David Bowie seems like an all round good bloke, not fussed about his stuff...

I met Marc Bolan.. nice chap, was a fan before, still am.

Umm, what was the question?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 January 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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