When A Positive Song Artist Jumps Ship: How To Deal And Avoid Blame
Many people are personally affected by an artist who changes their style, their lyrics or their image.
And we can understand why they might be inconvenienced or bothered.
As a person who grew up listening to many types of music before becoming especially interested in r&b and soul music, I can attest to the fact that it's difficult to find songs that you can play in front of children in this genre.
It can be difficult to play what's available for adults, too.
I also had the pleasure of becoming musically diverse again and saw this is not an isolated issue.
People interested in any genre can become a bit unsettled when the rare person they've come to depend on for positive song lyrics is no longer creating this for them.
But from the artist's perspective, does that mean they should serve us without also serving their own vision and desires? As individuals, do we do this? When in our rebellious teenage stage, we certainly don't let the world determine what we need to express or how we need to be express it.
We feel an urge to be honest about our inner world in our outer appearance.
Even if we rebel more privately, we find this experiment (to see our own authenticity being lived out) a necessary one.
When we air those things out, we open ourselves to let even them go and move onto something else.
This growth is actually healthy when we move through it, deciding to learn from the results and find the best lessons possible.
What we as fans can be tempted to forget is that others were not created to do what we want them to do, even if what we want them do is write positive songs that we can play in front of our kids.
In fact, it may not be in anyone's best interest for them to do what we want.
Why? Have you ever listened to a song that was, for someone else, depressing, but, for you, was comforting? Those songs might acknowledge some difficulty.
Many people have said something similar when describing how a record full of melancholy songs got them through a break-up.
Some people have said such songs saved their life.
For someone, even if it's just for the artist, that song may be bringing them through something.
It may also be giving them a record that they can learn from later (to understand how they got to a certain point which they now want to grow from).
As listeners, our responsibility is to know how we are affected by what we listen to so that we can make choices that serve us as individuals.
And if some listeners knew that they actually had those choices to make (that there is still positive music out there being made), they might be a little less disappointed when an artist goes their own way in life (when artists express themselves through music that is true to who they are and what they are going through).
How do you deal with it? In addition to getting this or a similar change in perspective, you can always find positive song replacements.
And we can understand why they might be inconvenienced or bothered.
As a person who grew up listening to many types of music before becoming especially interested in r&b and soul music, I can attest to the fact that it's difficult to find songs that you can play in front of children in this genre.
It can be difficult to play what's available for adults, too.
I also had the pleasure of becoming musically diverse again and saw this is not an isolated issue.
People interested in any genre can become a bit unsettled when the rare person they've come to depend on for positive song lyrics is no longer creating this for them.
But from the artist's perspective, does that mean they should serve us without also serving their own vision and desires? As individuals, do we do this? When in our rebellious teenage stage, we certainly don't let the world determine what we need to express or how we need to be express it.
We feel an urge to be honest about our inner world in our outer appearance.
Even if we rebel more privately, we find this experiment (to see our own authenticity being lived out) a necessary one.
When we air those things out, we open ourselves to let even them go and move onto something else.
This growth is actually healthy when we move through it, deciding to learn from the results and find the best lessons possible.
What we as fans can be tempted to forget is that others were not created to do what we want them to do, even if what we want them do is write positive songs that we can play in front of our kids.
In fact, it may not be in anyone's best interest for them to do what we want.
Why? Have you ever listened to a song that was, for someone else, depressing, but, for you, was comforting? Those songs might acknowledge some difficulty.
Many people have said something similar when describing how a record full of melancholy songs got them through a break-up.
Some people have said such songs saved their life.
For someone, even if it's just for the artist, that song may be bringing them through something.
It may also be giving them a record that they can learn from later (to understand how they got to a certain point which they now want to grow from).
As listeners, our responsibility is to know how we are affected by what we listen to so that we can make choices that serve us as individuals.
And if some listeners knew that they actually had those choices to make (that there is still positive music out there being made), they might be a little less disappointed when an artist goes their own way in life (when artists express themselves through music that is true to who they are and what they are going through).
How do you deal with it? In addition to getting this or a similar change in perspective, you can always find positive song replacements.