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The honey WAS snatched from the bee- Quite obviously

So I got my first taste of being critized for critizing music in a review. The CD was so morose it made me want to jump off a building. Is music supposed to make you feel that way? No. Okay, I'm exaggerating just a tad here, I would never jump off a building because of a song. But c'mon.
The caviler had a lot of moot points, but the most entertaining was in regards to my discussion of the song titled "Joy" in which the singer makes you want to slit your wrists. The response to my review says, "LaFond fails to see that the song is indeed about joy. Not the possession of joy, but the loss one feels seeing it slip away. The honey was snatched from the bee. That's the point."

How senseless of me.


Read the review here!

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Anonymous said…
And the joy was in the bee starving to death? Or maybe the bee was a masochist?
Back to the original bone of contention...a reviewer is supposed to give an honest, fair opinion of the music. That is what Christen did. She did not stoop to attack the composer, she offered a reasoned, knowledgable opinion.
Christen left cheap personal attacks for the 'lady' who doesn't know the difference between a review and an attack, or between her own inflated opinion and fact.
May 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM
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