There's an interesting phenomenon
In our recent life which in terms of music
Is called 'False Feedback,' which means
You’re not that good at playing or at singing,
You're just an artful bastard, that's it!
It doesn’t feel as good as you pretend, . .
No, no. You are not the greatest performer
Whom they have ever heard. You may as well
Be a middling cover band playing to a roomful
Of slightly tight audience whose favorite song
Just so happens to be the Wild Thing, which
Is why they are going nuts with applause.
Today, all things are so bloodily messed
That you do not discern and have a clue
Where the faked ones and where the true .
Plus, highly performed technologies
Make us embarrassed and deceived --
The progress, my friend, the progress,
Which starts to work against us
If we entrust it with our ears and eyes.
Styles and fads come and go and will always do that. I know is was in "Plato's Works" where the youth of the day was said to be unruly, etc....not verbatim, but it's in there. This poem really gets those wheels moving!
LOL!!! Ron has a point too about poets and story-tellers. Some people just can't handle the truth when told their stories are too lengthy and boring. They are so set in their old boring ways that one story is similar to another without anything happening. No dialogues, no action whatsoever. When told of the fact then they hold grudges against that person who had told them straight and honest from the heart. They don't like to be told with honest feedback. These people only love to be praised by false feedback from a few. To impress only a few who give false feedback is a sorry way to be a good writer. The books would sell only to those few people who had given false feedback. Very pitiful way to be an author.
You have hit on a very true concern. Not only affects singers, but also songwriters, poets and authors of all kinds. Real talent is possessed by few. But many may think they have talent because either people were afraid to be frank with them, or they felt that with hard work and practice that they would get better. The second part of that statement is generally true. It does take hard work for most people to excel. But to have false hope based on bad feedback is worse than having someone tell you that you can't sing.
However, there is a problem with fad art that particularly young people easily succumb to. Fads rarely stay around very long and unless one can catch the wave, popularity and fame can fade overnight, like "one-hit wonders."
It's different strokes for different folks. Music is art, and art is like an object, some like it and some just don't get it. You can't say it's bad art just because you don't get it. Other people who are more artistically-inclined may appreciate the message that the piece of art delivers. Same with a song a musician sings.
When Elvis Presley first sang his songs, some did not like the way he sings and they didn't like the way he sways his legs either, but then he sang more and the people just fell in love with him. He was actually the creator of an era of new music of rock n roll. He brought joys to the world and everyone sang with him.
Same with Michael Jackson. His songs and music flooded the world with happiness.
When people applaud an artist, it is always genuine applause, they were never fake.
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Sandie
However, there is a problem with fad art that particularly young people easily succumb to. Fads rarely stay around very long and unless one can catch the wave, popularity and fame can fade overnight, like "one-hit wonders."
Ron
When Elvis Presley first sang his songs, some did not like the way he sings and they didn't like the way he sways his legs either, but then he sang more and the people just fell in love with him. He was actually the creator of an era of new music of rock n roll. He brought joys to the world and everyone sang with him.
Same with Michael Jackson. His songs and music flooded the world with happiness.
When people applaud an artist, it is always genuine applause, they were never fake.
Sandie