To me, they are shorthand for 'god, your song is so dull, I can't even work up any passion to slag it off, but I don't particularly want to get into a flamewar about it that ends up with collaries of 'It's just my opinion''. Or possibly, occasionally, 'I really don't know enough about the genre you're tootling about in to reasonably place your music on its scale, so I'll just shut up.' Therefore it is a very useful tool to avoid tools.Dan-O from Five-O wrote:I hate those short little useless "Not my thing" or "This Rocks" reviews. It should be backed up by "And this is why" but the "In my opinon" thing should always just be understood. What else could it be but someone's opinion?
Nobody can define anything in absolute terms [qf:just about every sub-thread in the 'Politics and Other Crap' thread after about 3 pages] - however since a board like this requires discussion, we all act as if we can. The art of faceless conversation requires subjectivity treated as objectivity.lunkead wrote:Do you mean then that nobody can definitely say "XYZ song does not rock" in absolute terms?
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