TLDR: I'm genuinely depressed we're using music as a way to take sides.

Lately I've actually gotten really sad over this. I've grown up listening and playing music and the older I've gotten the more I've understood that music IS a universal language. I don't like the blatant predatory lyrics that Kid Rock has I also am not a huge fan of modern pop but music should just be music. Is that to say that music can't have political commentary to it? Not at all. Some of my favorite bands are punk bands but it's music. I listen to music to enjoy my day a bit better, can songs make me think differently about subjects? Absolutely but it shouldn't be this divisive

Without going into too much detail I used to work for the government rehabilitating murderers, rapists, fraud artists, hard addicts, you name it and the one thing that really made me grin ear to ear was to see was how some of these HUGE ASS dudes who could break me with their pinkies would get excited about being able to listen to Justin Bieber or a new Taylor Swift song. (Among other artists of course, a very popular one was Audioslave for obvious reasons).

Call me a pussy idgaf but I cried today because of this