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  • glimse@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldFacts.
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    11 days ago

    I was a big fan of his earlier stuff growing up and know all about him. He wasn’t a manic depressive and he received recognition immediately when he started his music career. Any struggles he had in his life are kind of undercut by the montage of cool shit in the music video. No reference to amphetamines or painkillers, just his long and storied career.

    Context aside, he just doesn’t sound good in the song. He sounds like any old man singing…which is why I said nobody would be gushing over it if it were not him.

    Unrelated but I hate his lyric change in Hurt almost as much as what Cee Lo did to Imagine.



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    I just don’t get the appeal and have never figured out what his version brings to the table…he wasn’t exactly a tortured artist and the music video is half him looking sad at a piano, half archival footage of all the cool things he did in his life.

    I feel like if Johnny Cash wasn’t The Man In Black, that recording would have stayed in the studio.

    [Edit] I know he had struggles, that’s not what a tortured artist means. If you’re gonna reply at all, address my opinion on the quality. What does it add other than a self-aggrandizing Jesus comparison? Would the song have any recognition if not for the singer?






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    12 days ago

    Why speak the truth so sarcastically?

    The lesser of two evils is still evil but in our binary voting system, abstaining IS giving your vote to the greater evil. It’s the trolley problem and the default position of the lever is sending it at the worse outcome.

    But if not pulling the lever makes you sleep better at night, I’m sure all the additional people suffering will understand…








  • I know this is an unpopular opinion but I love YouTube and it really bums me out to have to drop it. My home account has been heavily curated over the past two decades and it’s pretty rare to see a video on my homepage from the shitty part of YouTube…now I’m getting ads and just closing the tab. I have a separate account just for listening to music on my work laptop and I’ve found a ton of new artists through it, too…not sure what I’m gonna do once it starts getting ads, too.

    I have a Nebula subscription but only like 1/3 of the channels I watch are on there. And obviously none of the music