I am into composing ambient electronica and I am in a relationship with someone who insists that before I attempt to market my music online, I should somehow "get feedback from people". The problem I have with this suggestion is that if someone has genre preferences outside of the genre that I write in, any feedback I get from that person is going to be heavily biased because of this. If the suggestion was for some specific way to somehow get feedback from a group of people who I already knew were all people who listen to the genre that my music belongs to, or even ones that are close, then it would be a different matter, but just getting any old bunch of people together to get their feedback just doesn't sound very helpful to me. I mean, if you like country western, and someone comes to you and says "Here, listen to this ambient electronica and tell me what you think", chances are not good that you will have anything positive to say about it, and anything negative will probably have more to do with the fact that you don't like my genre than anything else. The response I keep getting to this argument though is that I'm just arguing. But with so many genres of music and the fact that most people only listen to maybe two or three, what are the chances that any random bunch of people are going to have helpful feedback about music belonging to one genre? Of course I think feedback is important, but if you're marketing a specific product that only a specific group of people would want to buy, you need feedback from that specific group or all you are doing is setting yourself up to fail. Do you think I'm being logical about this, or do you think, like my friend, that music is music and feedback is feedback?
don't think about it like that. of course people have a bias. but that doesn't mean they wont like your music. i think, generally, if music is good, its good to everyone. anyone who disagrees has shit for taste. :sunny: haha
Thanks, and I might take you up on that offer. But I'm actually more concerned about input on whether my reasoning is sound or not about the issue of genre preference. It's becoming a huge issue in the relationship. He won't support my spending time writing music until I set myself up to receive a barrage of negatively biased criticism. I actually think that must be what he wants so that I'll be so demoralized that I never write another song.
Some people like all music, which is great, but I, for instance, loathe country western and most religious music.. so if someone asked for my feedback on a country western she wrote, I would tell her that I couldn't give fair criticism of anything that sounds at all like country western. That's not saying that its bad music, just that I'm unable to fully appreciate it because of my personal preferences. But a lot of people won't be that thoughtful and they would listen and critique away.
awe, try not to make assumptions like that. they might genuinely have your best interests at heart. negative comments on your music should only drive you to improve it. if someone doesn't like it, thats their personal preference, but perhaps take some of what they said and try to come up with something new and interesting.
well, it is usually accomplished by clicking the "new thread" button while in the relationships forum. it can also be achieved through being moved by a mod. as for why it's here, i'm assuming because it's about an argument he's having with his friend/boyfriend (not sure which it is).
