Turning life’s lemons into lemonade is part of a songwriter’s job description.
If you’re aggrieved about something, the last thing you should do is start washing dirty linen in public on social networks or on blogs. That does nothing but reflect badly on you, and risks dragging your fans into a dispute they didn’t ask to be part of. If you really can’t stay silent, do what every other musician I know has done. Go and and write a song about it.
Like it. I suspect I know who you refer to and, being honest, have had to bite my lip (or should that be my fingertips?) to stop myself commenting – I much preferred it when artistic or personal differences were kept out of the public eye and when I didn’t feel as though I was being asked, however subliminally, to choose sides.
Have to agree Tim, it was an ill advised rant, however justified (or not) it may be. My family have personal experience of the damage that can be done through social network sites. It can be a dangerous place without some discipline. I wonder if anyone has written a book about it yet ?
It’s a general principle that once you get angry on the internet, you’ve lost whatever your argument was about.
Can’t argue this at all. I don’t want to know the details of any of this.
Since there appears to be a whispering campaign against me on Facebook, I ought to stress that I have no desire to take sides in the actual dispute. I don’t know the facts, and the details are really none of my business. Which is rather the point I’m trying to make.
Tim – I’ve suddenly found myself in the middle of Internet flame offs after making what I thought was an uncontroversial or side-taking comment. It’s bizarre how stuff explodes.