What Is Life

It’s like someone fucks up once and it becomes “oh they’re a bad person, I can’t stan them anymore.” or they do one think one thing “I PERSONALLY DISAGREE WITH” or they didn’t react the way “I WANT THEM TO ACT.”

They’re either good or bad, problematic or perfect, they did one wrong thing in 1993 or 2015 and so therefore everything regarding their music and legacy isn’t worth exploring. I find that really strange and that kind of simplistic thinking really makes you miss out on a lot.

random 14 year old tumblr user: *googles the person’s name + racist/problematic/bad person* *copies/pastes whatever they find without researching if it’s true* *makes tumblr post for notes and to show they are superior to everyone else*

“There’s a kind of continuing myth that The Monkees was an awful time for me, that I didn’t like the people, all of which is totally false. I have no problems with it at all. I don’t mind the association. I don’t even care when people refer to me as an ‘ex-Monkee,’ though they don’t do it as much anymore. I don’t mind the recognition factor of someone asking if I was once a Monkee. A lot of people know me from Elephant Parts and Television Parts. Or as the guy who started MTV. The fact is, that was an important and valuable time of my life and I’ve never regretted a minute of it. I’ve always been very supportive. Because I’m pretty much on my own, and travel to my own drummer, a certain notion has developed in the minds of the press that I didn’t like the experience and that I’m pretending it never existed. I won’t do interviews about The Monkees not because I don’t like them, but because I have nothing to say.”

Nice sign, Micky…