I have a relationship with Jedi Mind Tricks that makes me a little uncomfortable. They sound good. I really like their sound but when you listen to their lyrics it is really awful. Lots of anti-gay, hateful and other stuff that is really not what I am about. I have settled into just listening to the music because it sounds good and ignoring the lyrics but it gets hard. I don't worry that the music is going to sway me to that viewpoint... I am not that weak willed. Really I just wonder how others deal with music they enjoy the sound of but feel uncomfortable about the meaning behind.

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[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I mean, foster the people.

I'm hoping that's the obvious one for everybody.

But also for me, Jamiroquai. Dropping some line about how it's not nature's way for a mother to be able to choose the color of her child randomly in the middle of a song about how the world is changing so quick, and nobody can keep up with it.

At the same time, though, I'm nitpicking. It's just that one line in otherwise a cool song.

Flipside, I do not enjoy ICP, but my friends started playing the Shangri-La album, and I didn't know it was ICP, and I was like, man, this is actually pretty good, and then they were like, yeah, it's ICP, don't you like it? And I was like, well shit, they got like, one kind of decent album, fuck.