Ya know, music is personal for me, too, but I think (for all I mostly choose songs no one else has ever heard of) I'm much more narrow-minded, musically, than most of the vidders I know. And I've always assumed that was a permanent state of affairs: I didn't like stuff outside my particular whacked-out genres, and that was the way it was going to stay.
And what watching vids in general, and your vids in particular, has taught me that I *can*, in fact, learn to like a rap song, or a punk song, or an alt-rock growlfest like "Busted". And this is a great gift, it is a wonderful thing that vids give me. So your "Money for Nothing" story, which just makes me so happy, also makes me nod enthusiastically in understanding. A good vid can *do* that.
I think I'm one of the few vidders, though, who isn't bothered by "I hate this song/genre but I love your vid" in feedback. Sometimes I get puzzled, like when people get the genre wrong ("Lord I Have Made You..." has been called "country" a few times, which always makes me quizzical), but it doesn't piss me off -- I think because I know at the outset that I'm taking certain risks, and music is such a visceral and, yes, personal thing for people that you just can't expect everyone to like it. So when people say they liked the vid *in spite of* this, it makes me feel like my vid is just that much more awesome.
But I can see how, if you love the song, you want other people to be nice to it and cuddle it and say kind things about it. And beyond that, something which I didn't see in your conversation over at sdwolfpup's, there's the sense of "Hey, I picked this song, I picked it for a number of very good reasons, it's totally right for this vid, I have confidence in my song choice and I am *good* at this, so screw you anyway." IOW, bitching about the song is bitching about *your song choice*, is bitching about your creative talent on some level. And I wonder if that isn't why some vidders gets so upset about it.
BTW, glad to see others put you right on my co-vidder debchan. She is mighty and damn, I want her to vid more.
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Date: 2005-06-17 08:28 pm (UTC)And what watching vids in general, and your vids in particular, has taught me that I *can*, in fact, learn to like a rap song, or a punk song, or an alt-rock growlfest like "Busted". And this is a great gift, it is a wonderful thing that vids give me. So your "Money for Nothing" story, which just makes me so happy, also makes me nod enthusiastically in understanding. A good vid can *do* that.
I think I'm one of the few vidders, though, who isn't bothered by "I hate this song/genre but I love your vid" in feedback. Sometimes I get puzzled, like when people get the genre wrong ("Lord I Have Made You..." has been called "country" a few times, which always makes me quizzical), but it doesn't piss me off -- I think because I know at the outset that I'm taking certain risks, and music is such a visceral and, yes, personal thing for people that you just can't expect everyone to like it. So when people say they liked the vid *in spite of* this, it makes me feel like my vid is just that much more awesome.
But I can see how, if you love the song, you want other people to be nice to it and cuddle it and say kind things about it. And beyond that, something which I didn't see in your conversation over at
BTW, glad to see others put you right on my co-vidder