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When you can't separate art from artist
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Provocative Power of the Bad Boy Artist
I think that is one idea that has taken a licking in the last few years is this idea of the genius bad boy artist. You really see in the way that rock stars become these kind of avatars of their listeners where they're doing these behaviors and that's kind of thrilling. I mean you think about it's ridiculous to pick on him but if you think about Ted Nugent. He has songs about basically performing statutory rape. And so clearly that's a situation in which he's sort of voicing something that's a perceived desire of his listenership That he's acting out something that's an id. Now that this dialogue about me too has been going on for so long, now that
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