Nick Cave is a fan of Kanye West’s songs. According to the rapper, the musician defended his preference again – but also found clear words for western anti -Semitism.
Separate art and artists?
The timing was more than unhappy: only at the end of January nick Cave stated, one Kanye West song at his funeral To want to have, and almost one and a half weeks later he noticed with Hitler loving declarations and swastika shirt. The Australian singer-songwriter therefore reported again to classify his musical preferences. In another Q&A on his website “The Red Hand Files” He answered the question of a German fan on the controversial circumstances in a letter form. “I try to find beauty whenever she shows herself,” said Nick Cave.
The musician stated that many questions about the facts had already been troubled. Finding Kanye West’s behavior reprehensible, the Nick Cave described in his answer as a “common basis”. However, his extensive text came back to criticism of many fans, he separated art from the artist – a topic that Cave had already written about. “I don’t do that,” he said. “The idea that an artist is separated from his art is absurd. An artist and his art are fundamentally interwoven, because art is the essence of the artist that is expressed. The artist’s work announces: ‘I am. I am here. That’s what I am. ‘”
Nick Cave about the creation of art
He ordered his preference for Kanye West as follows: “However, the great gift of art is the potential of the artist to dig out his inner chaos and turn it into something sublime. That is what Kanye does. That is what I strive for and that is the task of all real artists. The remarkable benefit of art lies in its boldness to clarify our spoiled state and create something beautiful. ” In his open letter, Nick Cave found clear words for Kanye West’s attitude: he described the statements of the rapper as “deteriorating and disappointing”, emphasized his anti -Semitism as “disgusting”. Nevertheless: “It is resisting the best of us to punish the worst. I don’t think we can afford this luxury. “
Kanye West as a prime example of broken artists
For further explanation, Nick Cave referred to his own songwriting process and the human being. “When I write a song, I don’t draw from a pocket of purity that is isolated from me; A song is torn out of me from me, from me, and becomes the best of me on his Alchemist journey to his realization. This is the real definition of hope – that we are not prisoners of our faulty nature, but can overcome it, ”said Cave in his usual eloquent species. He finds the possibility of this in art.
“We are all broken, faulty and suffering people, each for themselves a catastrophe, everyone with the ability to do great damage, every full -scale ideas, of which the craziest is believed that we are somehow exclusive and morally superior to everyone else “, It continues. According to Nick Cave, people are capable of everything under certain circumstances. However, great potential also slumber in them. In these opposites, his view of Kanye West is also found: “In its brokenness, Kanye is a prime example par excellence for this idea, the braided dance between sin, transcendence and genius.”
Kanye West: “I am a Nazi”
Nick Cave has already praised Kanye West’s music several times, primarily the song “I am God”. His admiration for the other musician he always ordered On his blog. Ye has been publicly noticeable with anti -Semitic statements for years. Most recently, he sold Merchandise with Nazi symbols on it, publicly announced “I am a Nazi” and “Hitler was sooooo fresh”.