artists who plausibly appear to be good people

Céline Dion is probably one of the friendliest, most generous megastars out there.

these two threads are like "famous people who kinda acted nice once" vs "psycho criminal rapist murderers"

CARLY RAE JEPSEN

snoop dogg appears to be good people

― brimstead, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:13 PM (four hours ago)

Really?

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:21 PM (four hours ago)

no

― brimstead, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:24 PM (four hours ago)

i don't know

― brimstead, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:24 PM (four hours ago)

Snoop Dogg, actual pimp

We cool Champ, I get the idea, but who could've thought a thread of naming people not awful turns into ppl bringing up arbitrary 'evidence' to the contrary etc.

My step-dad once shared a Daily Star front cover with Snoop in the 90's. The Snoop headline was "Kick This Evil Bastard Out" and my Step-dad's sub headline was "Sicko Bookie". I think Snoop's criminal record revealed he'd shot someone dead, my step-dad was running margin betting on how many corpses they were going to exhume from Fred West's house in the independent bookies he worked for.

this is going to be bragalicious but most of my current favourite artists would fit happily here

i guess it's 'easy' for a relatively obscure artist to be a wonderful human being because they haven't been idk corrupted by the trappings of fame (read: forced to deal with everyone on earth wanting a piece of them) or w/e

should we limit this thread to huge artists though? not like ilx to celebrate the little people overly but this could be a good chance to

people I've met: literally everyone connected to the wider Cardiacs universe has been astonishingly lovely. Richard Dawson is an incredible man. Sadie Dupuis from Speedy Ortiz seems ultra nice. MC Dälek was an extremely solid dude. fgti hasn't been mentioned here yet and he is great. no bad things will ever emerge about any of these people because they're all giving, conscientious people with a natural curiosity about the world. there are probably way more examples but really it shouldn't be hard for all of you to think of examples

as for huge famous current music stars who are still wonderful people.....uh, JME seems cool?

That's the equivalent of listing all of your neighbours who are sound

They haven't the opportunity nor have they a media/wider public interested in ferreting out their secret sins

Like, a bit of cop on

A thread where we remind ourselves that all humans are fallible and we shouldn't start hero worshipping anyone - that sounds like potentially a good thread. Many of the problems we are going through are exasperated by talented people always getting the benefit of the doubt.

Or thinking that it matters? idk

i could read calzino posts all day long

truth

http://images.donttalktomeaboutheroes.com/DT000000009%20-%20Snoop%20Dogg%20Daily%20Star%20Newspaper/DT000000009-MEN-BASL-WHTBLK.jpg

Craig Finn was great when I met him after a show on his first solo tour, in podcasts/interviews he seems all right.
I generally assume Ian Svenonius is a good dude

i guess it's 'easy' for a relatively obscure artist to be a wonderful human being

oh, there are quite a few rapists, neo-fascists, abusive sociopaths, and racists shitlads among that lot

A thread where we remind ourselves that all humans are fallible and we shouldn't start hero worshipping anyone - that sounds like potentially a good thread.

Yeah. I mean I can completely understand why this thread was started but think that emil.y's points are OTM. I don't know, I'm probably not thinking straight about all this at the moment.

My friend, who will say anything to anyone, told them "It's not too late guys, you can still release Elvis Presley and America as a single."

On a positive note, this is hilarious.

I know people make fun of Moby because of his artistic pomposity, but based on the interviews and stories I've read, he seems to be an utterly decent person. I still remember some MTV award show where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog spotted him in the audience and started roasting him, and Moby just politely answered all his questions and kept picking up his cigar and putting it back into its mouth as it kept dropping. After that Triumph tried to interview Eminem, put Eminem punched the puppeteer or something and they had to cut away from the scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_39aTxsP0

Found that clip on Youtube.

Is that Moby of "knob touch" fame?

What's that?

For the next four years, the world's most famous vegan lived out his wildest rock'n'roll fantasies. He toured relentlessly, he drank heavily, popped pills, frequented strip bars. He gave engagingly revelatory interviews, and once admitted to playing a game called "touch knob" at densely crowded celebrity parties that involved removing his penis from his trousers and seeing how many unwitting stars he could touch with it. Unsurprisingly, he became a staple of New York gossip columns.

Ok, I didn't know that. :(

moby dick touch

judge didn't know whether to send him to rehab or ahab

If we held a party on the border of Finland and Belgium (NB no I won't check if one exists tyvm) would stanm and tuom still be a year later to it

Whichever of the Beach Boys wrote 'Never Learn Not to Love' must be a saint among men, such a beautiful song.

Yeah, I heard he took time out of his busy schedule to help a budding songwriter from a commune in the countryside, such a nice gesture.

lmao

these two threads are like "famous people who kinda acted nice once" vs "psycho criminal rapist murderers"

tbf the title is "plausibly appear" not "definitely are"

Didn't MOby eventually say that the whole "Knob touch" thing was a .... (presses button)... Lie?

grimes seems pretty cool

i don't think i'd like art angels any less if it turned out she was some kind of axe murderer though

a little less

Britt Daniel. Very friendly and smiles all the time.

Uh, no.

all of Citizen Fish, Zygote, Bettie Serveert, Monster Magnet, Motorpsycho.
Dave Doughman from Swearing At Motorists, Lou Barlow, Henry Rollins, Damo Suzuki.

henry rollins was a jerk about suicide recently (although he did apologise sincerely)

Lou Barlow lol

Witnessed one AP (whose music I loved up until PomPom) concert, and that was a trainwreck even without the misogynist bullshit as of late. One of the worst concerts I ever saw. On par with a disastrous Sebadoh concert, where Lou Barlow walked off after 10 mins and fuck you'd the whole audience. Don't ever buy a ticket for your favourite lo-fi artist concert, kids.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, October 16, 2017 10:46 PM (four weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw Barlow and he was engaging and fun.

honestly this gets to be some bullshit of X famous person didn't feel like talking or might have been in a bad mood or after getting interviewed one zillion times said something wrong like think about yourself and how your life would stand up to this microscope

It's the only logical conclusion on a dumb thread like this tbf

the only kinda famous person I feel comfortable putting on this is Har Mar Superstar because over not heard a bad word about him and if there was a bad word I would have heard it, always seems like a great dude

Ian Mackaye has run a record label for over 30 years and I've never heard of any artists having beef with him or saying they got ripped off which is a hell of an accomplishment

phil elverum seems good imo

I will never not be in awe of ariana grande for the stuff she did after the Manchester bomb

Most people who seek fame do so because they are selfless and giving and generally want to spread their message of beneficence and brotherhood as far as possible. How they manage to find time to do the regular spiritual upkeep to make sure that they're engaging with the world in a morally healthy way is beyond me, but it's clear that they must.

xp Fully behind that.

m@tt, did I ever tell you that I did a couple of operas where Har Mar's brother-in-law was playing a lead role?

Shonen Knife is the only thing I believe in

Jon Anderson of Yes claims to have seen all good people. Perhaps he can help us sort through this?

xpost, oh cool was that in Mpls or Boston?