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Topic subjectIt seems to me the mental gymnastics would be judging James Brown
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13443727, It seems to me the mental gymnastics would be judging James Brown
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Tue Oct-05-21 10:08 AM
and Chris Brown (no relation) through different prisms of art versus personal life.

Either we admit we are doing the cost-benefit analysis of the value of an artist's art versus the terribleness of their personal life or we do these Gymnastics where somehow a twenty-five year old who grew up on Chris Brown is somehow doing something different from a 40+-year-old who gives James Brown a pass.


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