Comment by rchaud

2 days ago

Sometimes people just get to retirement age, realize they don't have much longer to go and choose to stop hiding who they are. Morrissey of The Smiths is another guy who's alienated his audience. Moe Tucker, drummer in the legendary NYC '60s counterculture band The Velvet Underground was picketing at a Tea Party rally in 2009 and saying "Obama is destroying America from the inside".

> Sometimes people just get to retirement age, realize they don't have much longer to go and choose to stop hiding who they are

Personality changes over time, it's not necessarily about hiding.