Discovered recently that Electric Wizard were kinda dicks back in the day. “At the time, we were pretty bad people. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station. Tim [Bagshaw] went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage…”
R. L. Burnside killed a man “possibly at a craps game.”
Varg of Mayhem Burzum burned a couple churches and killed a bandmate.
I could list other examples, but would like to hear from other people and other music genres.
I always took those as satire. I feel like there’s a term for this sort of like “unreliable narrator”.
PS: sort of like the poem My Last Duchess by Browning
I always see The Offspring as quintessential unreliable narrator.
I mean, how else can you listen to the band?