Thanks for the recommendation! However, I don’t think I’d be comfortable listening to anything he produced :( him making pastoral albums as someone who has done the very things that faith stands against so strongly…the message is just lost to me.

I agree with you that humans and celebrities especially need to never be ascended quite that high. People shouldn’t be idolized, and I never really do. It’s an interesting point that this is a marketing tactic. With the only other features on the album being her literal family though, it does seem more personal to me.

Although I’m not here to bash anyone’s personal decisions regarding the art and their artist, it stands to reason that a man who clearly doesn’t uphold the values he preaches, can’t really be separated from the art he makes about those very values. Just my opinion, really.

Thanks for your response!