It can sometimes be hard to separate the artist from their art. Are there any artists who were bad people but whose work you still enjoy?

Feel free to answer if you’re in the opposite scenario: an artist who you love personally but don’t enjoy their artwork.

Feel free to respond more than just music artists!

  • Badabinski
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    156 months ago

    I’m convinced that Orson Scott Card suffered a traumatic head injury at some point. I don’t know how you could go from writing something as beautiful and intimate as Ender’s Game to shit like Hidden Empire, which is creepy right wing Christian disaster porn (from what I can remember of that trainwreck).

    • qantravon
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      136 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t know how the person who wrote “Speaker for the Dead” could be such a bigot. It doesn’t make sense to me.

      • bean
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        36 months ago

        This 100%.

        My username comes from Enderverse.

        • @TheMinions@lemmy.world
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          26 months ago

          Ender’s Shadow was an interesting book. Really made me appreciate Bean more than I did when I read Ender’s Game.

      • Tedesche
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        36 months ago

        It’s pretty simple: the bugs weren’t gay.