is okay to still listen to problematic groups music??

[cherrydahyun]

hear me out. mamamoo has great music and there STUNNING. but,they have done many racially offensive things that are not right.(but they apoligized so....)
next is jessi,now i don't listen to her music that often but i listened to what type of x and nunu nana,thinking she was amazing and i even thought she could be someone i look up to. iNtillLLLL i found out that she does blackface,and talks in a blaccent.
i just want to know what to do bc deep down i love these artists but now that i've seen what they have done,and hurt many people,i feel like i should not show my love for them.

 

[yunaing]

What I’m about to say is probably extremely problematic but this is just my take on the world.

I hate letting scandals get in the way of enjoying content. I think people should be allowed to enjoy anything they want to even if they don’t like the person behind it, whether that’s an actor in a movie, a youtuber or in this case a singer. If you focus so much time on everything people have done wrong, you stop enjoying life and start feeling very restricted in what you can do. And that goes for all forms of “problematic” behaviour. Racism, homophobia, mysgony whatever. Unless you feel genuinely uncomfortable with the creator, go and do what you want. Life is short!

I stan Mamamoo. I’m not black so their apologies aren’t mine to accept. I often think about what they’ve done in the past, and it makes me unhappy to think of the scale of what they did. But I stan them anyway because if I were to suddenly unstan them right now, a big part of my happiness would be gone. If you don’t like them as people I won’t try to persuade you otherwise, but at the same time if you like their music I feel like you as a person should have the option to listen to enjoy what you want to. Same goes for Jessi and whoever else.

I personally don’t like the members of AOA, due to feeling unsure about how I think they are as people, and I used to feel very cautious when listening to their music. But I really love their songs, so… yknow. I kept listening.

So yeah my conclusion is live your life how you want to and not how the internet thinks you should. Call out problematic behaviour, and make your own judgements accordingly, but at the same time don’t let it hold you back. It just makes life sad

(Just to clarify, I don’t support any of the 3 problematic things I listed, nor any others that fall under etc. It’s impossible to not feel guilt when you’re supporting someone who’s done things to hurt your or another community, I was just expressing that even if I disagree with some of the creators actions it doesn’t mean I’m going to avoid their content if I enjoy it)

 

[cherrydahyun]

What I’m about to say is probably extremely problematic but this is just my take on the world.

I hate letting scandals get in the way of enjoying content. I think people should be allowed to enjoy anything they want to even if they don’t like the person behind it, whether that’s an actor in a movie, a youtuber or in this case a singer. If you focus so much time on everything people have done wrong, you stop enjoying life and start feeling very restricted in what you can do. And that goes for all forms of “problematic” behaviour. Racism, homophobia, mysgony whatever. Unless you feel genuinely uncomfortable with the creator, go and do what you want. Life is short!

I stan Mamamoo. I’m not black so their apologies aren’t mine to accept. I often think about what they’ve done in the past, and it makes me unhappy to think of the scale of what they did. But I stan them anyway because if I were to suddenly unstan them right now, a big part of my happiness would be gone. If you don’t like them as people I won’t try to persuade you otherwise, but at the same time if you like their music I feel like you as a person should have the option to listen to enjoy what you want to. Same goes for Jessi and whoever else.

I personally don’t like the members of AOA, due to feeling unsure about how I think they are as people, and I used to feel very cautious when listening to their music. But I really love their songs, so… yknow. I kept listening.

So yeah my conclusion is live your life how you want to and not how the internet thinks you should. Call out problematic behaviour, and make your own judgements accordingly, but at the same time don’t let it hold you back. It just makes life sad

(Just to clarify, I don’t support any of the 3 problematic things I listed, nor any others that fall under etc. It’s impossible to not feel guilt when you’re supporting someone who’s done things to hurt your or another community, I was just expressing that even if I disagree with some of the creators actions it doesn’t mean I’m going to avoid their content if I enjoy it)

thank you!! i was really stuck bc i love mamamoo with all my heart,and to stop loving and supporting them would honestly break me. anyways,i'm gonna go listen to dingga.bye~~

 

[ec.li.ps.e]

It's entirely a personal choice, in my opinion. You have to weigh a creator's actions and see if you can separate the art from the artist which is something that cancel culture doesn't really allow. Not to get all "society" on main but it really is a problem with nuance. People interpret everything as black or white but really there's a lot of shades of gray. You have to consider the whole picture, not just the incident in question.

I'm not black, so I can't accept Mamamoo's apologies. But there is a difference between what they did and the anti-black things for example, Jay Park has done (oh god there's a lot), because the two parties come from different cultural backgrounds. Park should also probably know better at this point but that's neither here nor there.

If an argument is only happening on Twitter or Tiktok it has very little real world repurcussions. Keep that in mind too. A lot of "problematic" artists are only talked about on those platforms, which are designed to reduce the amount of nuance you can get in a conversation.

 

[moonlight]

depends if i listened to the group beforehand
i dont dig into problematic stuff anyway sooo i wouldn't know until i see a post etc yk..?