“Feeling! Feeling! FEELING!”

Youtube is full of retards. I was just searching the site for stuff like “fast guitar” and “fast shredding”, and in almost every video I see comments like “sure you can play fast, but you have no emotion” and “you need to play with feeling.” And this isn’t just in one or two videos, but nearly every one!

Since when are these weenies experts on guitar technique? Not only do I suspect most of them have never touched a musical instrument in their lives (Guitar Hero Zero 3 doesn’t count), but they’re offering their backhand “critiques” just as a way of boosting their own ego. The internet has become just another venue where insecure kids rubbish people who are genuinely talented, and it’s a shame it has to be that way.

And about this “feeling” and “emotion” business. This of course is subjective, which is the whole reason why people use it so often. If someone sucks at guitar it should be immediately obvious, but if someone plays well there’s nothing you can bash him about…except…he has no emotion! Yeah, that’s right! It’s a bulletproof criticism because there’s no response to a subjective assertion like “your playing lacks emotion”.

It’s time all of these self-proclaimed Youtube critics shut up and went back to what they’re good at…playing GH3 alone in their bedrooms.