Quote Originally Posted by Reconceal View Post
Ofcourse they are bitter and hostile.

Small scene and too many fans react like abusive drug addicts, willing to lock artists into mental prisons, fan own little "sweatshops", forcing them to make "the product" fans don't really understand, but want it made to spec just so they can relieve their high, while at the same time convincing artists they know best what's good for them, that they are nothing without them and refusing to give any sort of payment or compensation. "But they do what they love!"

Were it anything else but music, such relationship would be a criminal offense, fan would get locked and get a restraining order.

And once you get free of the fan sweatshop, you get locked into a touring-centered-big-label(tm), where it's almost exactly the same, except it's a big, bright cubicle in a shape of an airp(ort)lane seat, social-media stream camera is always on and you get paid, but they take almost everything away from you immediately. You can't really hear the addicts ramble, but there is an agent whispering in your ear exactly what you(r ego) want(s) to hear and if you don't listen, you get to do cocaine and suck up someones asshole, then you get discarded few years afterward, when you pay out your advance.
"But they did what they loved!"

See how there is no mention of music or artistic expression anywhere?

It's like a very bad breakup, letting go of this beautiful person with batshit crazy friends and later colegues.

Some are doing this for decades and a lot of that time for free. Artists don't need you to create art, but need you to create a living. Fans do not own artists. Artists can do what ever they like with their art, for whatever reason. Don't lock artists into your preconceptions, just let it go. Like them for what they represent with their music, not for how exactly their craft is done. Respect the artists as people. They are people. Most of us just need to create, like it's biological.

Once majority of fans will embrace this and stop just taking, but give something back (really give, not just this vague passive-agressive "I support" bullshit), artists won't be bitter and hostile anymore.


Right now it's not that you don't like someones art, but you are actively preventing him to make a living out of it.

Impressive!