Can you enjoy music by artists you dislike?

[DMKA]

I think it's ridiculous that even if you don't share the same views, that you are somehow incapable of understanding why OTHER PEOPLE might feel differently than you.

Did I say I was incapable of understanding? No, I said I think it's ridiculous. Please don't put words in my mouth, k?

I can't listen to Chris Brown's music because as soon as one of his songs come on, I see in my head the image of Rihanna's bruised and battered face.

Then I'd recommend seeing a therapist. That would be like being incapable of eating split pea soup, because you couldn't do so without thinking of that scene in The Exorcist or being incapable of watching any of Robin William's films because you just can't stop envisioning him hanging in his closet. Sounds like a personal problem, if you ask me.

Is your mind really so single minded that you can force your brain to not branch off and think about the artist and the things you know about that artist? Because if so, that is an incredible talent, but one I do not share.

All you can think about is some secondary bulltrout about someone while completely ignoring and discrediting their entire body of work, reducing in to one thing they said or did?

And you're calling me "single mind minded"(whatever that means)?

As long as I'm entertained, I simply don't give a trout. I don't listen to music as a source of moral conditioning, or to emotionally support the people who made it, or any other bulltrout like that. I listen to it to be entertained.

If I know that someone did some really troutty and smurfed up things, that it's not like I can un-know that thing. It's going to be present in my mind when I think of that person and when some product of that person's talent is up for consumption. So I just can't be like, OH YEAH, THIS IS TOTALLY MY JAM! LET ME JUST NOT THINK ABOUT THE VIOLENCE AND MISOGYNY! DON'T THINK ABOUT DON'T THINK ABOUT IT JUST KEEP DANCING.

Then again, I can't recommended seeking therapy enough for such an issue. Or don't, it's your loss. I can't imagine how boring and dull life must be when you shut out any and all art that was made by someone you don't particularly like and when the very production behind a work, not even the work itself, offends you to the point of rejecting any and all enjoyment you may have drawn from it.