
Originally Posted by
Breakbeat
No, you were a normal kid who liked popular things. No need to apologize, or to qualify your sexuality with a preferred gender and age range. I actually find that a bit odd in and of itself. I mean, you liked Michael Jackson just like hundreds of millions of other people... yet you feel compelled to point out that you aren\\'t, in fact, a child predator. Well, neither am I, nor are 99.9% of the other billion folks that bought Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad. Eh, I digress...
Anyway, it\\'s important to point out here that Freddy Krueger is a fictitious character whereas Michael Jackson was a real person. Freddy was originally written, back in the early 80s, as a child molester. They changed him to a "teen murderer" to get the movies made; without that change no green light would have been given. But yeah, dude was meant to be the pinnacle of evil, so I guess child predator ticks that box.
The 2010 remake went back to the original idea for Freddy - that of a child predator. So, you can take this as you will. I had Freddy up on my walls when I was 12 and I don\\'t feel guilty about it at all. Why should I? He was a horror movie legend. Still is. However they decided to change his character outside of the original movies doesn\\'t change my love for horror movie villains from when I was a young kid.
Ditto Michael, regardless of what he did. You gotta separate the art from the artist. I know \\'cancel culture\\' dictates otherwise, but it just ain\\'t so. I still watch Roman Polanski movies (some of the best psychological thrillers ever made) and Woody Allen movies. Still listen to MJ. Still listen to albums produced by Phil Spector.
Because all of this art is amazing art. /sigh
Here\\'s another good example. Since you were a kid in the eighties, you witnessed the world get an instant distaste for Milli Vanilli. Objectively, they were kings of pop, too. Five number ones, their second album went 6x platinum. Then, cancel culture got \\'em. We were being lied to! Well, guess what, we never liked their music in the first place!
Yeah, right.
Nevermind the fact that one cannot \\'choose\\' what music they like and don\\'t like. It happens on a subconscious level, and a revelation about lip-syncing and bogus frontmen doesn\\'t \\'re-program\\' your subconscious not to like a song. The dopamine release happens regardless. Same deal with MJ, Nightmare on Elm Street movies, etc., etc.
Shoot, I still play their tracks from time to time. Yeah, they\\'re basically eighteen variations of an Ashley\\'s Roachclip breakbeat loop, but they are catchy. If the art is good, the art is good. The shenanigans of the artist objectively does not change the art.