I love their politics but their music is crap!

[devilgrrl]

Dave Matthews - his heart is in the right place but I hate his music.

Anyone have someone, an actor, musician, etc... that you agree with politically but hate their work? Just wondering :shrug:

[SeveneightyWhoa]

1. Ben Affleck, Madonna, Dixie Chicks.

Thats all I can think of right now. But I'm sure there's a lot.

[GreenEarthAl]

2. Al Franken

Not sure why everyone thinks he's so funny.

[thebigidea]

3. it could be that he makes them laugh

apparently that leads some deluded types to believe he's funny.

[Melodybe]

4. I like Dave Mattews and the Dixie Chicks

I'm not the biggest Moby fan but I like his politics. Madonna confuses me, but I'm glad that she can and does criticize Bu$h. I just wish that she would quite hanging out with Britney. It is so hard to call her a feminist hero, while continuing to associate with Spears.

[Kerridwyn]

5. Punk

A lot of punk bands have great politics, but I just don't like the music.

I feel a similar way about the Dixie Chicks, too.

[blondeatlast]

23. Imagine!

Guess I'm one of the deluded.

[NightTrain]

17. Didn't know Al Franken was musician!

n/t

[GreenEarthAl]

22. he's a someone...

> Anyone have someone, an actor, musician, etc...
> that you agree with politically but hate their
> work? Just wondering

I do believe that he falls in the category of "someone"

[RebelOne]

6. Madonna and the Dixie Chicks

Never liked Madonna and I hate country music.

[stanwyck]

16. I'll say this for Affleck

he's not a good actor. But, I caught him on The Daily Show the other night and he was genuinely funny and engaging. If only he could translate that charm onto the screen.

[mac56]

7. Streisand.

Flame away.

[ronnykmarshall]

11. GASP!!!!!!!!

Thems fightin' words!!!!!!!!

[jonnyblitz]

19. I agree and I am gay. totally can't stand her.

Blech.

[peekaloo]

8. Julia Roberts

:shrug:

[mitchum]

9. Janeane Garofalo

never enjoyed her schtick (because she doesn't have one) Very unfunny, but she is an eloquent spokesman for progressive politics. I wish that she would drop out of "entertainment" and enter politics

[dani]

10. RATM

I don't like their music. But I love Zack de La Rocha and what he's done to help the indigenous peasant struggle in southern Mexico.

http://www.musicfanclubs.org/rage/articles/frontera.htm

Zack de La Rocha
Interview by Jesus Ramirez Cuevas

But one subject did get Zack talking recently: the Zapatista struggle in Chiapas. And why not? He already expends enormous amounts of energy raising awareness about the struggle through his music.

[RandomKoolzip]

12. Springsteen, Crass, Steve Earle, Sting, Dixie Chicks, lots of nu-punk

Many many others....Well meaning lefties, but I can't fucking HACK their music.

[voice of reason]

13. risking scorn . . .

but, I can't stand U2

[jonnyblitz]

20. me either.

I only liked their first album,Boy.

[voice of reason]

14. risking scorn . . .

but, I can't stand U2

[NightTrain]

15. John Denver.

Never liked his music but felt badly for him in the '80s, when RCA dropped him after he wrote and recorded a song that criticized the nuclear arms race. (RCA is owned by GE, one of the world's biggest manufacturers of weapons.)

[Gringo]

18. Rage Against the Machine

Actually, I think they are occasionally brilliant, but mostly just noisy and shrill. I have to be in the right mood to listen to them. I always feel like 80% of the kids who listen to them don't understand what they're talking about - they just think it sounds "cool". At least they were trying to say SOMETHING, unlike Marilyn Manson, which is just meaningless commercialized poser crap.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. Yeah, they weren't very good at all.