I’m taking your quote to this thread because I think it might get pretty off-topic in the original one soon.
I weren’t surprised.
Since JRO is the only community of that kind for Japanese music it would make sense to me, if some bands or band members that at least do understand English come here. All it takes will be searching Google, I guess. If bands are curious about perception abroad they might exactly do this and … get here.
With how criticism on newly released music partly gets phrased here I sometimes wonder how many bands even do plan to care on people abroad. Especially when taking the cultural differences into consideration. In like, I guess from a western standpoint we often are way more frank.
That’s just a thought I had more than once when seeing people’s opinions that to me often sound more like facts than opinions. I know it’s not meant like this and I’ve also seen some people emphasizing it’s their opinion. But I also do know the side of creating something.
With how often people not just find music not interesting, not to their liking but frankly say there wasn’t any effort put into, there wasn’t any … I’m lacking the perfect word, something like it doesn’t make sense, there’s no real idea behind the song, the lyrics, the music so it shows in being boring, something along that line … and I’m like, yeah, that’s how it seems to you. But in truth we never can know what the person who wrote the music, who wrote the lyrics had in mind, what they were aiming for and all this. Maybe what resulted out of it was exactly what it should turn out like for whatever reason. Or it was what they could make out of it at that time and would be different at some other point in the future due to evolvement. If seeing comments as frank and as harsh that sound more like facts than opinion and as if only this one existed and nothing beyond … I don’t think I would want to put much energy into that part of people. By which I don’t want to say that people aren’t allowed to criticize. But I think it’s a matter of how things get worded. I sometimes miss some level of respect.
I don’t want to blame anyone by this though. It’s really just thoughts I’ve had have on my mind for a while. And by that quote these came up once again.