Ah, Bjork...

*thinks happy cloud thoughts*

Is this a review? I thought it was more a series of abstract ramblings based upon a variation of the Ink Blot Test. Put the cover of the CD up to the subject and let her type away to her hearts content.

It surprises me when some writers are called shit and boring and crap and useless, when this so blatantly is all those things. The writer demonstrates none of the abilities required to write abstract reviews convincingly.

Björk melts my brain into some sort of drug, I swear.
This review hits it on the head. That woman is gorgeously talented...

to: three_cords
"It's extremely rare I delete comments. But your message was not a comment,
it's just an anonymous personal attack."

Anonymous? theres my email adress up there for all to see. How many other people have posted here anonymously eh? Of course, "HEADOFDIS" is your real name isn’t it? Try spelling my name right too, if you wanna be pedantic.


"If that's how you feel so be it but that's a real person on the receiving
end of your comments and yeah, they can probably handle it as you're clearly
insignificant if you don't even put your real name."

oooh. I'm so insignificant. As insignificant as people who post nasty comments under anonymous names on reviews by other writers.... especially when those comments show insider knowledge of the working of DiS. pot meet kettle. hello? hello? mcfly?

"There's comments and there's being a cunt."

My criticisms are valid. there's a thing called freedom of speech. Remove freedom of speech, and we have censorship. How would you like it If I told you you couldn’t think or feel a certain way anymore?

"Be constructive or be deleted. Justify your opinion and be heard. As the
Editor of this site (which isn't written by paid pro's) I have a
responsibility."

Constructive? Let me tell you something. theres a real person on the end of your comments too. This was not an anonymous personal attack - go on, mail to the email address i've given. I'll get in my inbox...This review is still narcissic, self-intorverted, and completely detached from the real world of music. Music matters, not bleedin' swans collapsing to the ground. If you wanna write like that, try writing a childrens fable, not a music review. I still stand by my opinion,”Shame on you editors for ever deciding to let this piece of drivel go up on your site. And even more shame for it becoming a featured article"

I still think this review is completely unindicitive of the actual music it contains. It has a lot more to do with prose, poetry, and childrens stories. You know where the creative section is, put this there instead.

Real people, real feelings sean, as you are prone to saying. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. if you don’t like criticism, if you expect everyone to come up to you full of praise, saying how good you are...the real world doesn't work that way. You seem perfectly good at dealing out the shit without taking it in return, and that makes you hypocritical.

I stand by every criticism people have made of anything I've done, because of freedom of speech. That includes making criticism rather than putting your tongue up someone's arse and writing fawning comments. If you can't take criticism, boo hoo. the real world isn;t going to tell you how wonderful you are all the time is it.

This has turned from a criticism of a writer’s writing style – which sin’t suited to music journalism but abstract poetry and prose - into a defence of free speech. The writer has freedom to write what she likes – I on the other hand, DON’T by your tules, because I don’t fawn over how good the writing is. Is that hypocritical of you? Yes. Have you let your personal feelings on this issue cloud your judgement? Definitley.

Freedom of speech includes freedom to say things that you might want to hear. Criticism. Get over it. I ain’t blowing smoke up anyone’s ass. I can take criticism – can you? If not, why not? Whats the difference between you slagging me off and calling me a “cunt” and my criticism of the writing style, not the person)? Eh? You crossed the line there, and have no right to be an editor when you resort to personal attacks like that. Hang your head in shame, because you’ve wronged your audience and site visitors by treating them like cattle for having an opinion of their own and not kissing ass telling you how good you are.

Just remember how you treat others, because those that build you, can also break you. Where would you be without people giving you page hits? Eh? Even if we disagreee with what you say, we have a democratic right to express that disagreement. If you start to censor what other people think because it isn’t complimentary, how far is it from that to a dictatoship? Look at me, I’m sean, master of my own little doman, and any dissent will be stamped out and smashed!

Can’t handle the heat? Stay out of the kitchen.Im here to stay, I ain’t going away. I get as good as I give. You wanna debate the morals an ethics of free speech? I’m here to debate it with you. Dare you.

Ah more debate about this kinda prose/peotry in reviews. Personally, I think it's OK if you can do it well, without sounding naively pretentious. Don't think any of the examples on this site have really hit the mark though, they're all a bit cringe-worthy.

I guess what I'm trying to say is - if you want to try and be all artsy and intellectual in a context where it's not normally expected, you're really going to have to make the effort to be properly intellectual, or else nobody's going to like it - your average bloke will write it off as uninformative confusing bilge, and your average fan of experimental prose composition in journalism (if such people exist) will write it off out of pure snobbery. sad but true