Musicians' opinions influencing listeners' opinions

Terrapin_Station · 08-16-2016, 01:54 PM

Just curious what you think about this.

For example, and band puts out an album in 2001.

People express opinions about it with no unusual dislike of a particular song on othat album.

A band member does an interview in 2009.

The interviewer asks, "Are there any songs from the past that you particularly regret doing?"

The band member says, "Yeah, song x on that album from 2001."

Suddenly, lots of people start saying that the 2001 album is good except for song x.

(And if you note that people only started saying that en masse after the 2009 interview, everyone says something like, "It's just not a very good song; I've always said that.")

Anyway, you'll see the influence of musicians' opinions all over the place--people will echo their favorite/least favorite songs, albums, etc.

And sometimes they'll even act as if it's a problem to like something because the band/the musician doesn't like it. "Such and such is your favorite album of theirs? But they don't even like it!"

08-16-2016, 01:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
Terrapin_Station Music Addict Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: NYC Man Posts: 877	Musicians' opinions influencing listeners' opinions Just curious what you think about this. For example, and band puts out an album in 2001. People express opinions about it with no unusual dislike of a particular song on othat album. A band member does an interview in 2009. The interviewer asks, "Are there any songs from the past that you particularly regret doing?" The band member says, "Yeah, song x on that album from 2001." Suddenly, lots of people start saying that the 2001 album is good except for song x. (And if you note that people only started saying that en masse after the 2009 interview, everyone says something like, "It's just not a very good song; I've always said that.") Anyway, you'll see the influence of musicians' opinions all over the place--people will echo their favorite/least favorite songs, albums, etc. And sometimes they'll even act as if it's a problem to like something because the band/the musician doesn't like it. "Such and such is your favorite album of theirs? But they don't even like it!"