[this song] is good, and [this song] is bad.
i believe [this band] is [this genre] because it's kiiiind of like [this other band].
i have gripes with [this vocalist]; he could never live up to [this other one].
opinions
i hate to sound high and mighty when i talk about myself. i hate to talk about myself at all, despite it being the only thing i do, so when i describe myself i try not to use self-aggrandising words in the slightest.
the problem, with me, is that self-aggrandising translates to anything positive!
that being said, a thought occured to me that i was hesitant to share as a result of my general insecurity. to the right people, i am relatively charming. and i am knowledgable, on certain things, whether one likes that description or not. particularly a certain musical niche.
here's the problem: people like me. people like me too much, i feel, and people look up to me as a source of information. while i'm more than honoured and more than happy to help them, i become so afraid of doing something wrong, as i have several times before.
now, doing something wrong is not the issue here. the issue is how people like me so much that, if i have a strong opinion on something and so much as vaguely explain it, they tend to adopt it without question.
all rough comments i've made a thousand times, that people simply absorb, and begin to agree with me on even if (and perhaps because of the fact that) they're not so knowledgable on the topic.
of course, it isn't limited to music. some other opinions i've expressed, that friends have blindly agreed with me on, include things like "what makes a proper otaku" and "almost nobody who owns a parrot is responsible enough about it" and "i think most jirai-kei girls don't actually know what they're doing".
i have no deep involvement in these fields anymore and the people i talk to on these matters usually have little knowledge regarding them too. so why do they blindly agree with me?!
the problem is not that they agree, but that they then go on and parrot what i have to say. in a worse case scenario, they'll convince someone else of this same opinion, without any actual reasoning to do so.
in this way, the opinion becomes less off a thought-out argument or a feeling one person has, and more of a contagious disease.
i don't want you to like a band because i like the band. i want you to like the band because, just as i enjoy the sound and the worldview and the context and the members and the lyrics, you enjoy them too.
you don't have to know all these things, of course, but when i say i dislike something, you shouldn't take it blindly. why aren't you finding things out for yourself?
if you listen to me shittalking things, you'll never learn that you might actually like kamen rider ex-aid, and all the BL fanfiction that comes with it. just because it was too much for me doesn't mean it's not suited for you.
grow a brain; stop listening to people on the internet, and especially not me! i'm wrong most of the time, and i wouldn't wish thinking like me on anyone.