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Originally Posted by thinkingoutloud89
^Hmm well what you say is not wrong only very...well american? are you even from america? Stating a fact in such a narrow manner to me, and mostly to what s teached in germany, just show a lack of skills in certain departments and I personally find it really off-putting to read such strong opinions. The world is not black or white. Utada United was actually quite pleasent to watch...especially the song-choice. i never found Utada to be good performer to begin with, and overall, I never understood the hype to her music. The concert has pretty bad vocal control, especially in the beginning - but if you search for good vocals, j-pop is definitely not the area to search for - same goes for production value.
So I personally would have said something like: "Wel, the concert was not my cup of tea because I did not like this and that, but I can see why people enjoyed it" or something like that - which, at least gives a bit respect to the performing artist.
Same goes for rating music itself. Like I said in the Lady Gaga thread: each output of art is nothing you can rate with "good" and "bad" - its just very disrespectful to the creator of the content (and certainly something that gets more and more common within the internet (see youtube)). There a certain criteria - shifting form person to person off course - but in almost each piece of art or content is something that you can praise to a certain content without being a total douche (and that was not directed to you, just an overall impression). It is a skill you even learn in school, at least in most Europe, to sandwich your critique between two good statements.
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When providing a critique on works to creators themselves (ie. class critique, etc.), this is always how I go about doing so. However, that is with the intent of providing them with means for improvement, or helping to push them further down the direction that you feel they have already begun to succeed in. In an online forum, no such objective exists (well, I'm sure there are forums that exists solely for the purpose of such an objective, but AHS isn't necessarily a place where we critique one another's work); the objective here is one of sharing personal opinion (and discussing news, etc.).
I think it also depends on how you rate your own works and projects (self-critique), as well as how you prefer to receive critique yourself. I am a tyrant to myself in my own creations, and am never satisfied until I feel I have problem-solved repeatedly time-and-time again to remove its weakest points. Likewise, if something is lacking, I prefer someone to tell me directly, as the objective lies in making good work, not within garnering praise for simply making an effort.
In making watered down versions of my own experiences ("not my cup of tea"), as a writer, I don't feel that statement does the emotion, nor opinion that was formed as a result of it, justice. Expressing emotions with strength and giving accuracy to the extent that they were felt, is important to me, and playing the middle ground just doesn't feel real or authentic - it's not truth. Being passive in daily life is exhausting, so my writing style, and as a result my online persona, tends too come off as bold. However, I'll tell you that the strength of dislike I have for things, is outweighed by the strength of love I have for things that truly impress me, and make me all the much more thankful and appreciative to have them. (Sakura Nagashi, Take 5, Keep Tryin', etc.)