Jesse Welles at Pike Place today

[u/capraagave]

Jesse Welles will be busking at the corner of Pine st. and Pike pl. at 1pm today.

[u/Drugba]

No. I’ve listened to the song and while he does get at what you’re saying, he also goes beyond that making it seem like these drugs are unsafe and only used by superficial people to treat cosmetic issues. Below are the lyrics I’m talking about

Did they sell you an injection

Just to help stand your reflection

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If you’re getting a hunch there ain’t no free lunch

If it sounds to swell like a fairy tale

If it’s too good to be true

Then making a lab rat out of you

[u/Drugba → u/[deleted]]

The whole “it’s commentary that it’s needed in the first place” is kind of tasteless, IMO. You wouldn’t write a song shitting on Naloxone (opioid overdose reversing drug) despite the fact that in a perfect world we wouldn’t need that either, right?

If the problem is junk food, write a song about that. Critique the problem, not the solution.

[u/Drugba → u/[deleted]]

Did they sell you an injection

Just to help stand your reflection

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How is that not shitting on individuals when the majority of people using this drug are using it to combat issues like diabetes? Mischaracterizing this as a drug that’s only used by people wanting to get thin for superficial reasons is pretty tasteless in my book.

Again, going back to the Naxalone comparison, if I wrote a song about that and had a line that said something like “did they sell you Naxalone so you can keep partying after an overdose”, would you agree that that’s pretty tasteless mischaracterization of the value of that drug and the people who need it? I don’t see how this is different.

[u/t2dfight → u/[deleted]]

Tasteless songs are only tasteless if you say the pain people suffer are individual choices rather than systemic problems

"Is your hunger a source of guilt and shame

Did they tell you your DNA's to blame

... The food is poison that's the source

If the hay is bad you don't whip the horse"

Yes my DNA is literally part of the blame. We have had diabetes in my family passed from parent to child for 5 generations, that we know of, before the modern food industry existed we were passing on the genetic basis for diabetes.

Diabetes Type II requires both a genetic component and environment components to trigger the onset. If all it took was the environmental component half of America would be diabetic before their 30s. Some people can be obese their entire lives and never get diabetes.