Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Musicians

I'm having a hard time deciding what to write about today. I have two topics, both important or unimportant, depending on your view. My head and my heart have been having an argument pretty much all day, and they decided to battle it out in my tummy... There's one. The other one you would probably find much more interesting.
What's wrong with people? Specifically people on myspace, who "friend" musicians. Then they comment them. There are three kinds of comments you can leave a musician or band on myspace. There's the "I hate you" kind, which you don't see often at all, then there's the "I love you!" kind which is there all the time, and finally there's the "Hey *insert name here*, what's up?!!" kind which is there about as much as the "I love you!" kind.
Now really, do people expect this person or group to actually read all of these, and if they do, do you think they really care all that much? Sure they care if you love them or hate them, but how many bands are going to read that you commented them and said "Hey, what's up?!!" -or worse, "Hiiii wuts up?!!!"- and actually reply. If they did reply, what would you want them to say? "Oh everything is wonderful, I have more money than you, I have more friends, people love me, and you are really insignificant" which might actually be truthful, but it might hurt your feelings, so they might reply with something like "Oh everything is wonderful. The tour is great, and we're only on it because of the support of people like you. We are thankful for each and every one of our fans and wanted to personally thank you for supporting our group." Which may also be true, but it sounds like a suck up.
Another thing on that same topic, why be friends with two hundred bands? I don't think I understand that at all. Do you really listen to all two hundred bands enough that the small shortcut you get from going to "view all friends" and finding them is really worth anything?
This may all seem quite negative, but that's sort of the general feel right now on this subject.

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