Originally Posted by
eversonpoe
that's kind of akin to saying, "i skip big man with a gun every time i listen to the downward spiral because it makes me uncomfortable," which i actually used to do when i was first getting into NIN 14 years ago. however, the major difference is that trent was telling a story with established characters, not glorifying violence and rape.
but it's also like saying, "i'm going to ignore the fact that this person is awful and makes me extremely uncomfortable 30% of the time because the other 70% of the time his music is good!" tyler just spews hatred and i don't really think there's much of a "narrative flow" to his albums.
also, the F word (not fuck) is something i got called LITERALLY every day i was in attendance during high school, simply because i was "weird," so hearing it makes me feel kinda sick.
eta: i hope you don't think i'm in any way attacking you or saying you're a bad person. i have never really talked to anyone about my feelings on tyler except my girlfriend when i've seen things on the internet about him being a douche, in which case my reaction is simply RAGE!!! so i'm enjoying having a more intellectual discussion rather than yelling at my computer and having my girlfriend ask me to calm down.