# Mute RKelly

[Fambo Number Mive]

The Time's Up movement is asking business to boycott singer-songwriter R Kelly over sexual assault allegations and an alleged illegal marriage. His management have issued a statement describing the Time's Up movement as taking part in "an attempted public lynching of a black man".

Do you still listen to R Kelly knowing the allegations against him?

[Sebastian Cobb]

Boycotting R-Kelly would be as effortless as boycotting soda stream.

[Dr Syntax Head]

Stick him in a closet

[Sgt. Duckie]

Now he's coming up the stairs...stairs...stairs...

[momatt]

I've been boycotting the cunt since I was born.

I find it amazing he's carried on his career as long as he has.  So people are only just waking up to him being a cunt?

[alan nagsworth]

yeh but if "i believe i can fly" comes on you best believe i ain't muting that banger

[Flouncer]

I wonder if there are people out there saying, "When he shagged and pissed on that underage lass I was right behind him, but this is the last straw!"

[Spiteface]

The Time's Up movement is asking business to boycott singer-songwriter R Kelly over sexual assault allegations and an alleged illegal marriage. His management have issued a statement describing the Time's Up movement as taking part in "an attempted public lynching of a black man".

Do you still listen to R Kelly knowing the allegations against him?

Yes, because Trapped in the Closet is fucking genius. I know that makes me a bad person, but I'm not bothered.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

Enjoying art made by bad people doesn't make you a bad person.

[Dr Syntax Head]

Beck is a scientologist. I love everything he's made.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

Phil Spector made some of the greatest pop music ever, and he straight up killed a person. Everyone still listens to his stuff because it's really good. Everyone is entitled to their own discernment about these things.

[Flouncer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3Am3LY6mQ

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Phil Spector made some of the greatest pop music ever, and he straight up killed a person. Everyone still listens to his stuff because it's really good. Everyone is entitled to their own discernment about these things.

Exactly. Enjoying great art made by bad people isn't an endorsement of the terrible things they've done. However, as you say, if you can no longer appreciate their work in light of their crimes, then that's fair enough, it's a personal choice.

[Dr Syntax Head]

Art is pure expression. To deny the expression of bad people is to deny the dark parts of our own mind. I think I know what I meant. Right now I'm listening to Layne, I'll never do heroin but it's good for me to hear the truth in what a heroin addict is saying. Does that make any sense? If not I'll fuck off.

[Sin Agog]

Sounds to me like this is more about depriving him of moolah than anything.  I'm all for financial boycotts.  Seems about the only way us piss-ants can get through to the pezzonovantes out there.

[Jerzy Bondov]

Well he's a pretty nasty piece of work. At this point I have to wonder what it would take to get me to stop listening to Ignition (Remix). The answer, it would seem, is 'nothing'

[Sebastian Cobb]

Phil Spector made some of the greatest pop music ever, and he straight up killed a person. Everyone still listens to his stuff because it's really good. Everyone is entitled to their own discernment about these things.

Aye, Spector was a Moaty-level genius, and sadly most of the best music producers were shits and tyrants.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Have you ever heard Chuck Berry on the radio?
YOU KNOW, THE ONE WHO GOT DONE FOR 'TRANSPORTING A MINOR OVER STATE LINES' AND LATER FOR SPYING ON HIS OWN BACKING SINGERS?


or what about Jerry Lee Lewis?
YOU KNOW, THE ONE WHO MARRIED HIS 13 YEAR OLD COUSIN IN THE EARLY 60S?

Thank god nobody listens to them anymore, eh?

[Utter Shit]

Obviously R. Kelly is a dreadful man but I find myself drawn to his back catalogue (heyooooo) still, partly because so much of it is great - Vibe, I Wish, Ignition - but mostly because a great deal of it is completely fucking bonkers. Obviously Trapped In The Closet is the height of his madness, but he's had those mad conversation-songs on his normal albums and they are just as insane. This one is my favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaAWFoWr2c

BITCH I WISH YOU WOOOOOOOULD BURN MY MUTHAFUCKIN' CLOOOOOOTHES

[momatt]

Luckily not an issue for me, as I've always thought R Kelly's music is fucking awful.

[madhair60]

I bought Trapped in the Closet on DVD from the Romsey Mill charity shop the other week. Daren't watch it, too good.

[up_the_hampipe]

Enjoying art made by bad people doesn't make you a bad person.

Jerrod Carmichael has a great bit about this, using R Kelly as one of his examples https://youtu.be/KiQvO8OC7jc

[Famous Mortimer]

Have you ever heard Chuck Berry on the radio?
YOU KNOW, THE ONE WHO GOT DONE FOR 'TRANSPORTING A MINOR OVER STATE LINES' AND LATER FOR SPYING ON HIS OWN BACKING SINGERS?


or what about Jerry Lee Lewis?
YOU KNOW, THE ONE WHO MARRIED HIS 13 YEAR OLD COUSIN IN THE EARLY 60S?

Thank god nobody listens to them anymore, eh?

Possibly the wrong two examples to pick, because I can't remember the last time I heard either of them on the radio.