I could be convinced to listen to it earlier if Taylor Swift wants to hear it or something like that. But for now, I think I’m going to kind of save it for a rainy day.
This is the opposite of squad goals, right?
Just compare how Swift’s original album and Adams’s covers were received by critics, and you can see the disconnect.
Art affects people, and artists have a responsibility to their consumers. I’m not saying that it’s not also about self-expression and making your own point. I’m saying that if you have a blind spot with regard to race, or gender, or physical ability, or sexual preference, and someone calls you on that, you have a responsibility to have that conversation in good faith without getting defensive. If you didn’t want to communicate with people, why did you become an artist in the first place?
