I’ve not been a member here all that long but this is a question that has been asked several times on other forums that I am a member of and each time it has made me stop and thing about what it means to be a fan. As a teenager it meant that I HAD to enjoy every single piece of work an actor/singer did but as I got older my thoughts on the matter changed.
- It’s okay not to like everything Meat does and it’s okay to have an opinion on his work but to me being a fan is to accept that he is human, he can’t be perfect all the time and that he has feelings. No one likes to have their work ripped apart and I imagine it’s quite upsetting if that criticism is coming from someone that calls themselves a fan. There’s nothing wrong with a little bit of constructive criticism, but it has to be written very carefully as things can easily be taken the wrong way. If I write something negative, I will always find something positive to say as well.
- Being a fan means that I look forward to each new project and that I consider each contribution on its own merits. Just because I don’t like one song on an album, or a particular album, doesn’t change my overall feelings about an artist.
- Just because I’m a fan of Meat Loaf doesn’t mean that he is the only artist I like. In fact Meat is one of two artists that I feel strongly about.
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