Because Nick Cave would like a Kanye song to his funeral

Nick Cave Use its site The Red Hand Files To answer the questions that ask him his fans with a good frequency, on the most disparate topics. The last of these questions concerns the song that The Australian musician would like to play his funeralthat is to say “I am a god” Of Kanye West. A German fan, Jörg, wonders and asks Nick, “it is said that artist’s art should be separated. I can’t do it. My childhood heroes have become monsters. Now I read that the song “I AM A God” by Kanye West should be played at your funeral. How the hell can you listen to that song without seeing the dirt of human being that Kanye has become? “.

This is the articulated replica of the 67 -year -old Warracknabeal musician: “Dear Jörg, numerous messages have arrived who express, in no uncertain terms, disapproval for my passion for music by Kanye West.

A lot of time has been spent and energy to explain the evil of Nazism, the damage of anti-Semitism, because it is wrong to sell t-shirts with swastika and because it is unacceptable to force your girlfriend to pose naked on the red carpet of the Grammy. On this point, it seems that we can all find common ground. I agree. However, I want to question the idea that we can separate art from the artist. I wrote on this topic in the past, but I think it is worth resuming the discussion. From reading your recent letters, it seems that some of you take on that I share this belief. To be clear, that’s not the case. The idea that the artist is separated from his art is absurd. An artist and his art are basically intertwined, because art is the essence of the manifested artist. The artist’s work proclaims: ‘This is me. I am here. This is what I am. ‘”.

After the introductory premise, Cave goes on to talk about Kanye West: “However, the great gift of art is the possibility for the artist to dig into his inner chaos and transform it into something sublime. This is what Kanye does. This is what I try to do, and this is the commitment undertaken by all genuine artists. The extraordinary usefulness of art lies in its audacity to transfigure our corrupt state and create something beautiful. When I write a song, I do not draw on a bag of purity separated from the rest of me; A song is torn by all of myself, by my disorder, becoming the best of me on his alchemical journey towards its realization. This is the very definition of hope: that we are not prisoners of our imperfect nature, but we can transcend it. Let’s look at the artists and their art to express this idea. In its breakdown, Kanye is a specimen par excellence of this notion, the intertwined dance between sin, transcendence and genius. “

This is Nick’s lock: “We are all broken human beings, imperfect and suffering, each a disaster in its own way, each with the ability to cause great damage, each full of wrong conceptions, perhaps the most illusory of which is the belief that we are Somehow exclusively and morally superior to all the others.

Many of you might think: ‘Well, talk to you! I’m not like Kanye! I would never behave like this! ‘ Yet given the circumstances, we humans are capable of anything. Being human means being imperfect, but it also means having the potential to achieve extraordinary things – beautiful, brilliant, inspiring, wild and bold things; Things to appreciate, despite our complex and compromised nature. However hateful and disappointing are many of Kanye’s points of view, and however nauseating anti -Semitism is – in its forms sadly always present and in continuous transformation – I try to seek beauty wherever it presents itself. In doing so, I am reluctant to invalidate the best of us in an attempt to punish the worst. I don’t think we can afford this luxury. With affection, nick. “