User blog:Nathan Mapping/Trashbin (1): Why I kinda hate the song contest community

So as you can see, I am going kinda start a "blog post series" where I will discuss some stupid bullshit that is ongoing or have happened in the past. I don't intend in insulting anyone, what I am doing or at least trying to do there is to express my personal opinion, and I welcome everyone in the comment section to tell me their opinions and discuss the topic.

As the title says, I am going to talk about the song contest community, where I have been involved in online events in the past 4 months.

The main reason I hate the community is that people are nearly always being disrespectful when writing down their personal opinion. By that I think of those people who are telling another fellow member that their taste in music is either bad or shouldn't be that way, or even both. In my opinion, those people don't seem to realise how much pain their "opinion" can cause to the others. I understand that they don't like a specific genre, song or performer, but I think that a "this and that song are definitely not my taste, and the winner is one of my least favorite songs, but of course, this is just my opinion" still sounds better than a "jesus, people there are tasteless, everyone voted for the most overrated song in the contest, and 90% of the songs are shit, with the only exception being my song, which was of course ranked to be last in it's semi final". I have met many people like that, who simply doesn't know to write down an opinion in a personal, not-disrespectful way, and these people are the ones ending up in lots of dramas based on my experiences (of course I might be wrong there). Of course, I don't say they must like everything, what I tried to explain there is that most of these kids think that their taste is the only one that is right, and an individual is utterly tasteless if he doesn't like a song they do, meanwhile, music taste is something that differs in depending on who, where and what kind of environment we are talking about. Accusing someone for having 0 taste in music therefore is completely pointless, at least that is what I think.

My personal motto regarding these cases is "If you have a negative opinion, either make it look that you really are expressing your personal opinion or don't say anything".

To avoid any misunderstandings, I'm not saying that people can't have an opinion on music, on other's music taste and so on, what I tried to write down is that a vast majority of these people express it in a way that could easily be taken as an insult, and it is a fact that these people don't always think about what the consequences might be if they are being harsh.

And now, I'd like to end the very first "episode" of my new series. I don't promise that I will make blog posts weekly, but I will surely do whenever I experience or see something that is disgusting or just simply stupid in my opinion.

If you have anything you would like to talk about regarding the main topic of this post, the comment section and my dms on discord are waiting for you with open arms.

Have a nice day!