I'm probably not getting this, but...
May. 19th, 2008 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverthorneSomehow, these guys here seem to be missing the point; or else I am.
After all, without your fanbase, aren't you just another unpaid person with a cool artistic hobby? If your fans won't vote for you, who will?
Or...I dunno. Are the opinions of your peers more important than the people giving you their money?
What? I don't get it, but it seems kinda...disrespectful (if we're going to throw that word around) to turn your nose up at the people who put you on the map in the first place by being the ones that bought your music and are now 'standing up' for you by voting for you. I mean, really, are the people that listened to the stuff you put out that much less educated than a room full of older peers who have their own unfair rules in place for these sort of things?
...Or am I just too stupid to understand this one? (which is possible)
After all, without your fanbase, aren't you just another unpaid person with a cool artistic hobby? If your fans won't vote for you, who will?
Or...I dunno. Are the opinions of your peers more important than the people giving you their money?
What? I don't get it, but it seems kinda...disrespectful (if we're going to throw that word around) to turn your nose up at the people who put you on the map in the first place by being the ones that bought your music and are now 'standing up' for you by voting for you. I mean, really, are the people that listened to the stuff you put out that much less educated than a room full of older peers who have their own unfair rules in place for these sort of things?
...Or am I just too stupid to understand this one? (which is possible)
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Date: 2008-05-19 10:14 pm (UTC)Considering I appreciate Country music about as much as I appreciate zombie movies and mushrooms - to say, I react with revulsion at best - I don't know this guy from a hole in a tree, and can't say if he's a dolt.
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Date: 2008-05-20 12:24 pm (UTC)(As a defence to the music--some of it is pretty good. Just depends on the style and subject matter. I'm not very fond of the whiny-guitared 'my wife left me, my dog died, my best friend fucked my cattle' ones myself. Of course, by the same token, I do like the older ones like Kenny Rogers. My only excuse is they were there first, so it's okay when they do it. :) )