“I have always used my platform and music to bring people from all backgrounds and cultures together and this won’t ever change,” he wrote, later adding: “I choose to use my fame and platform to be a place of safety and sanctuary, to maintain diplomacy and keep the conversations open, not closed.”

A good explanation of why his music sucks and more broadly why the profit motive destroys creativity and any artistic integrity. All the incentives are pushing people to create a product with the maximum appeal to the greatest possible audience. This means keep it simple but maintain deniability, allowing double meanings so people from all walks of life can find something to latch onto and think you're talking to them. Make it about generalities and universalise as much as possible. And for g-d's sake don't offend anyone. The bland leading the bland. Corporate placeholders with nothing to say. Punk rock spinning in its grave at 45rpm. And the worst thing is that he still thinks he's doing something good.

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