Mexican Seafood or Mad Hattter?
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Mad Hatter.
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I understand exactly what you mean.
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To me it’s… questionable.
It depends on the artist. If it’s glorifying psychosis as fun then just no, not happening. If it’s scary for help/empowerment sure, it’s fine actually. It really depends.
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How do you personally tell the difference?
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Oh, there’s more than these 2 camps. There’s being “true to the story” which does neither but will be accused of both". We deal with it as writers.
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If the artist has a history of mental illness, especially severe mental illness/comorbidity of several severe ones. The chances of them glorifying their painful experiences are much, MUCH lower than a person who hasn’t been there.
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But, you’ll have to know if they have mental illness themselves…now I need to see if Grave Digger did any interviews…
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What do you mean?
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If I had mental illness and did a song about it, I’d NOT want to do interviews that covered it–specifically in question to offense over lyrics that are personal choice. I don’t answer to the audience and their opinions, and I’d be very disgruntled that this is the measure I must use to be “ok” to write what I want.
But that’s the way offense works: taking things very personally. It’s the type of things I have to learn to let o of as a 40 year old grownup who is too old for this crud. Because of this, we are often more in shock when some celebrities suffer a mental breakdown. We get to form opinions and tastes off less than ideal information.
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Yeah, I understand.
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