![]() On this record, Jim says the band’s expressive lyricism, whether it’s about world and governmental politics or politics in lead singer Matt Berninger’s marriage, is as strong as ever. The indie rock band The National just released their 7th studio album, Sleep Well Beast. Jim and Greg are joined by journalist Britt Julious (who has written for the Chicago Tribune, Esquire, Elle, and others) and Mark Anthony Neal (cultural critic and professor of African and African American Studies at Duke) for a discussion about whether we can, and should, hold a musician’s artistic output to a moral standard. It applies to artists like Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Miles Davis and more contemporary artists like Pwr Bttm and R. That is, should we judge an artist’s output by their personal morals? Can you enjoy a song, when you know the person performing it has done some despicable things? This question is not new to music criticism. Oscar Wilde once wrote, There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Audio player Download Subscribe via iTunes The Artist vs. ![]()
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