For my first ‘blog’, or should that be ‘rant’, I want to touch on something HugeRockStar touched on in his piece ‘In Flames: Stop Beating A Dead Horse!’ which I have to say was a great piece. Seriously go read it.
So lets get down to it.
I have a real problem with some fans of bands out there. There I’ve said it, now let me clarify why.
The problem is all the haters and doom merchants who call themselves loyal fans, but every time a band tries something different, or tries to progress musically a group of these so called fans pops up and tries to crush them for it.
If you want proof, look at the METALLICA situation. How many message boards out there have at least one thread dedicated to slagging of this band? Almost every metal board you care to mention has one.
Now it is everyone’s given right to an opinion, that’s not my problem. My problem begins when people go onto the bands personal boards to do nothing but slag them off and the people who actually enjoy what the are doing. I don’t like the new Metallica stuff, in fact, I’d go as far to say I hate it, but I will defend them to the end of time for producing the stuff they want to.
Yes I do agree that at times we feel so aggrieved that we feel we have to say something, so say it and let that be an end of it.
I watched for months on the ANTHRAX board as people daily posted messages about how bad they felt about how they were betraying the fans by ‘ditching’ one singer to go on a reunion with another. This led to quite a few people leaving the board or stopping posting altogether and the board becoming mostly a new vs. old fight with people just slagging off people.
A band, like a person, evolves through time and the things they experience. Are you the same person you were 10/15/20 years ago?
I’ll answer for you, and I’m guaranteed to be right. NO YOUR NOT!
As our lives change so do our opinions and the way we look at things, so why can’t bands be the same. If you don’t like what a bands doing, instead of wasting their time and yours slagging them off, don’t buy their stuff and don’t clog up there message boards spouting about how you feel they have personally s**t in your cornflakes.
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