• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      The songs are good. The person was a POS that I’m glad is gone. Sadly. So many musicians of that era are maga turds.

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      I don’t hate it, I just don’t get it. Rock boomers always ranked it pretty high. The album art looks like the most killer metal album ever. And then I drop the needle for the first time and it’s fuckin’ showtunes.

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        That makes sense, because the music is repurposed from a musical that Meat and Steinman were writing.

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      I think I only really know two Meatloaf songs, and I’m not particularly fond of either of them.

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        Well, I don’t know about acclaimed, but he did some acting. I liked him in Black Dog, but I think he wasn’t really acting in that one.

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      Meatloaf was a terrible human being, it’s hard to ignore that and like his music. I used to like that album before I knew though.

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        I don’t think being pro-Trump and then realising he was a sack of shit and then becoming anti-Trump necessarily counts as being a terrible human being.

        His only other controversial stuff seems to be being a climate change denier and anti-vaxxer but I put that down to stupidity over any malice on his part.

        Plus you can argue that Jim Steinman was a bigger part of Loafs music than Loaf himself.