At the end of “Balcony Man,” Nick Cave’s ponderous and playful song about hope, romance, and grief, he sings, “What doesn’t kill you just makes you crazier.” The words are a wry twist on Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous aphorism — but Cave says they’re also an improvement upon it.
“I don’t think Nietzsche’s quote of ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ is remotely true,” he says. “It is bad, unhelpful information that suggests we are somehow weak if we succumb to our griefs. It lacks compassion.
“I don’t think Nietzsche’s quote of ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ is remotely true,” he says. “It is bad, unhelpful information that suggests we are somehow weak if we succumb to our griefs. It lacks compassion.
- 9/26/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Nick Cave has said that Kanye West’s antisemitic comments are “disgraceful”.
West has recently found himself embroiled in controversy over a number of antisemetic remarks he has made.
The rapper has since received backlash and has been dropped by both Adidas and Balenciaga over the “hateful and dangerous” comments. A number of fellow celebrities have also condemned his behaviour.
You can find out more about what West has said and who has called him out here.
Cave is the latest celebrity to give his opinion on the subject. Speaking in London at the Southbank Centre (October 27) about his new book Faith, Hope and Carnage with Sean O’Hagan, Cave brought West up while responding to a question from the audience.
The question was in regard to whether an artist with problematic personality traits can be separated from their art, NME reported.
Morrisey was raised as an example during the question,...
West has recently found himself embroiled in controversy over a number of antisemetic remarks he has made.
The rapper has since received backlash and has been dropped by both Adidas and Balenciaga over the “hateful and dangerous” comments. A number of fellow celebrities have also condemned his behaviour.
You can find out more about what West has said and who has called him out here.
Cave is the latest celebrity to give his opinion on the subject. Speaking in London at the Southbank Centre (October 27) about his new book Faith, Hope and Carnage with Sean O’Hagan, Cave brought West up while responding to a question from the audience.
The question was in regard to whether an artist with problematic personality traits can be separated from their art, NME reported.
Morrisey was raised as an example during the question,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
After several years fronting gothy art-punks the Birthday Party, Nick Cave ventured out as a solo artist with a new band, the more traditionally rock-focused Bad Seeds, in 1983. In addition to his Birthday Party bandmate Mick Harvey, the longest tenured original member of the group was Blixa Bargeld, who played expressionistic guitar in the Bad Seeds as a side gig to his long-running industrial group, Einstürzende Neubauten.
During his 20-year Bad Seeds tenure, Bargeld cowrote a handful songs, including the haunting “Stranger Than Kindness,” and occasionally duetted with Cave, notably on “The Weeping Song.
During his 20-year Bad Seeds tenure, Bargeld cowrote a handful songs, including the haunting “Stranger Than Kindness,” and occasionally duetted with Cave, notably on “The Weeping Song.
- 10/2/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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