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My latest song, Passion, is for my music fans, like all my songs. The melody has a conciliatory feel, which called for conciliatory words. With the recent exposure of another major crime with one of my songs, I wanted to let the misled fans of the culprit know that I don't hold it against them. However, if they only supported Beyonce from the outset because of the outstanding views she received on YouTube with my song, they should not support her now. There's a good chance that she would still be on YouTube if she had not ripped me off. For that reason, I reject any fans she might still have following the exposure of her fraud. I have often said that I don't watch television or listen to radio, but perhaps I haven't explained clearly why. I don't trust myself in the face of their overwhelming hypnotic power. Had I tuned into Saturday Night Live when they were stealing from me, I would have fallen for their fraud the same as anyone else, just as I fell for Beyonce's fraud when I heard her on the radio with Under My Umbrella. Since I am just as vulnerable to mass media manipulation as anyone else, I can't hold it against them or call them 'stupid' when they succumb to it. It is only after the fraud is exposed that the fog clears from the head and the silliness of the beliefs that supported the fraud becomes apparent. Let me illustrate such silliness now, with a little fiction: I stole Size from Charles Manson. He is not allowed to write hit songs because he's in prison. Actually, it was just a hit verse to begin with, consisting of two lines: I'm not any better, I've had bloody trials... From this I was able to develop it into a full song. Manson was arrested because he confessed his crimes through his music. The last song he authored before Size was I Slaughtered Sharon Tate: I slaughtered Sharon Tate/Man and did it feel great/Blamed it on the boy next door/Hoping to start a race war... This is the kind of silliness that may pass for fact when an artist's life-work is turned into fraud by the mass media. |
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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Unashamed
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