06-10-2016, 11:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-10-2016, 12:56 PM by Eric the Green.)
I admitted often that I can be wrong and hear or not hear something that I hear later. Tara refuses to admit that she could be wrong, and hear or not hear something that she might hear later in some music.
I must admit I "got" Bieber from the start. I posted that I liked "Never Say Never" back in Nov.2010, when he performed for the world series that "my" team was playing in. I promptly forgot all about it and then "discovered" him again in April 2012, hearing "Somebody to Love," "Pray" and "Never Say Never" (again). It's true Bieber is not everyone's cup of tea, nor is today's pop in general; but I do think there's a lot of prejudice against him that closes peoples ears to him. That is abundantly clear from all the smears he gets, which is extraordinary considering he's just a talented young guy putting out good songs. The libertarian philosopher Stefan Molyneux set things very straight about JB and those who hate him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyptVWcCvlY
Taramarie will no doubt claim that I am saying she hates JB like those haters Stefan describes. But I am no longer conversing directly with Tara; she's on my ignore list now for making mean remarks about me, and simply labeling them as "not mean" does not change them.
Edit to Add from the archive: Another poster, no backer of me, Amy/ASB65, chimed in early on the Bieber "shrine" and said this:
Eric, I think it's fine that you like Justin Bieber. Everyone is entitled to their own musical opinions. My older son never liked him, but then he generally has never liked any pop music. My younger son loved Justin Bieber for a while and he even had a poster of him in his room. But then his older brother teased him so much about it that he took it down and now he says he doesn't like Justin Bieber anymore. (But truth be told, since my younger son does tend to like pop music more than other kinds of music, he probably secretly still does like Bieber.)
So there's a testimony of peer pressure that people feel to get in line and dislike or hate Justin Bieber. It's a VERY prevalent thing, especially a few years ago.
I must admit I "got" Bieber from the start. I posted that I liked "Never Say Never" back in Nov.2010, when he performed for the world series that "my" team was playing in. I promptly forgot all about it and then "discovered" him again in April 2012, hearing "Somebody to Love," "Pray" and "Never Say Never" (again). It's true Bieber is not everyone's cup of tea, nor is today's pop in general; but I do think there's a lot of prejudice against him that closes peoples ears to him. That is abundantly clear from all the smears he gets, which is extraordinary considering he's just a talented young guy putting out good songs. The libertarian philosopher Stefan Molyneux set things very straight about JB and those who hate him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyptVWcCvlY
Taramarie will no doubt claim that I am saying she hates JB like those haters Stefan describes. But I am no longer conversing directly with Tara; she's on my ignore list now for making mean remarks about me, and simply labeling them as "not mean" does not change them.
Edit to Add from the archive: Another poster, no backer of me, Amy/ASB65, chimed in early on the Bieber "shrine" and said this:
Eric, I think it's fine that you like Justin Bieber. Everyone is entitled to their own musical opinions. My older son never liked him, but then he generally has never liked any pop music. My younger son loved Justin Bieber for a while and he even had a poster of him in his room. But then his older brother teased him so much about it that he took it down and now he says he doesn't like Justin Bieber anymore. (But truth be told, since my younger son does tend to like pop music more than other kinds of music, he probably secretly still does like Bieber.)
So there's a testimony of peer pressure that people feel to get in line and dislike or hate Justin Bieber. It's a VERY prevalent thing, especially a few years ago.