The big corporations involved can afford to go back and forth on artists’ livelihoods but the artists themselves cannot.
Trying to ‘call-out’ problematic views often only helps spread those views even further.
The angst and criticism around gig-going behaviour is a reaction to a bigger shift in priorities among young people.
To cringe is to be free… and don’t we all want to be free?
We’ve disconnected ways of dressing from the ways of being they used to represent.
anything that normalises viewing other people as non-human, even just a little bit, has serious ramifications.
“Memeifying far right politicians is giving them the very cultural relevance they need to spread their harmful messages.”