I've learned over the years that an artist you like can completely break your heart by being a scumbag. Warning, the intro to this does mention pedophilia, but it gets light hearted after the break. Just down to the sentence that starts with "I'm not a huge Jimmy Buffett fan" if you want to skip the bad stuff.
My favorite band through most of college and well into my adulthood was Brand New. The music was interesting, it was perfectly balanced between yearning and loneliness, the isolation that comes from a world that seems to be spinning out of control, and anger that no one in power wants to change it.
And then it turned out that Jesse Lacey, the singer, had been soliciting pictures from underaged girls for years.
One of my recent favorites, the Arcade Fire, now has their own lead singer issues who is being accused of being a sex pest. (At the very least to of age women for now)
And it's not just a "now" issue. There's stories of David Bowie in weird situations with underaged women. Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson, Don Henley, Elvis, the list keeps going. Ranker has a whole list of sex pest celebrities.
So this is where the blog changes direction. Like 90 degree, complete deflection into another topic.
