lol guess we won’t be getting Caribou to play the Adult Swim Fest any time soon. I respect his stance though. It’s a slippery slope, for sure. My feeling has always been to take the money from the rich and give it to the artists who need it, personally. But that’s just me.
https://twitter.com/caribouband/status/1343905834665914371
As someone who is in the position to pay artists for their work, I will occasionally run into someone who just flies get feel comfortable taking corporate money for any reason. And I respect that courage and commitment.
For my part, I feel like part of my life’s work has been supporting art by exposing and promoting the work of artists whose work means so much to me, and of course by paying them what they deserve, so that they can keep creating.
For me I think the question is: does the corporation paying the artist want something from them they feel uncomfortable with? Are they being asked to align with an ideology they don’t support? If not... Then it’s down to whether or not you can USE the money to do more.
But like I said, the “Fugazi test” is not something I would ever thumb my nose at and I never take it personally when artists turn me down. Anyway, that’s my POV of folks like Caribou.
*who just doesn’t FEEL comfortable. Stupid ass autocorrect
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