Aaanazgnos
05-06-2003, 01:40 AM
People who seek out mainstream music are often seeking an easily established commonality, a reference point with their peers.
People who seek out non-mainstream music are often attempting to do the opposite, or simply to do it within what they feel is a more select crowd.
Thus, when a 'non-mainstream' artist acheives a certain level of fame/prominence, a certain type of music fan will react by publicly negating that artist - whenever an audience for their negation exists. I.e., this person feels that too much commonality exists, and that they can no longer gain status within their selected crowd by supporting the artist, so they turn against them. In some cases, this attitude will actually determine how they feel about the artists music, in other's, they will turn against the artist regardless of how they actually feel.
Perhaps, ultimately, support of an artist requires more effort than dismissal. Plus, the above 'type' of 'fan' is likely to feel that everyone else feels as they do and they fear exposure above all else - they feel they are staying ahead of the curve. It's because they never graduated from junior high, I expect.
In other words, Stuart, you're worth more (to them) dead than alive. But chin up man! From what I've heard (music, not opinion), your record kicks ass. And a sense of entitlement is always disgusting under any circumstances. We're not all like that.
People who seek out non-mainstream music are often attempting to do the opposite, or simply to do it within what they feel is a more select crowd.
Thus, when a 'non-mainstream' artist acheives a certain level of fame/prominence, a certain type of music fan will react by publicly negating that artist - whenever an audience for their negation exists. I.e., this person feels that too much commonality exists, and that they can no longer gain status within their selected crowd by supporting the artist, so they turn against them. In some cases, this attitude will actually determine how they feel about the artists music, in other's, they will turn against the artist regardless of how they actually feel.
Perhaps, ultimately, support of an artist requires more effort than dismissal. Plus, the above 'type' of 'fan' is likely to feel that everyone else feels as they do and they fear exposure above all else - they feel they are staying ahead of the curve. It's because they never graduated from junior high, I expect.
In other words, Stuart, you're worth more (to them) dead than alive. But chin up man! From what I've heard (music, not opinion), your record kicks ass. And a sense of entitlement is always disgusting under any circumstances. We're not all like that.