Beautiful songwriters,
It saddens me to read the Bless Your Soul saga, and I feel I need to speak out in support of what is largely a brilliant community - thanks to all of you lot.
BUT
Threads such as the Bless Your Soul trilogy don't belong on my forum. And yes, I recognise that this forum is nothing without its members, but sometimes a little leadership is required to keep the ship sailing to its rightful destination. So I'm putting my foot down yo.
@benjo - I already told you how I feel about this. Saeed did not plagiarise your song. Mark is right about this. I can listen to Radio 1 on any given day and point out loads of bits of songs and sometimes whole songs which are very obviously 'inspired' to the point of being near copies of other songs. But do the writers of these new songs owe an apology to their heroes? No.
I do agree it's bad manners on Saeed's part, especially not to chip into the debate and make his position clear.
But if we called people out every time we encounter bad manners, we'd never get anything done.
@Mark - well done for almost keeping your cool. You're entitled to not enjoy the song, and to say so. In general, I do encourage negative feedback to be more constructive however.
@Stylus - I would ask you to avoid making personal comments and attacks. They don't benefit the forum and are entirely unnecessary. You can disagree with Mark without getting personal.
IN GENERALTwo of this community's most well established members have contacted me since this incident asking to be removed from the forum.
This makes me really sad. The two members in question have been here pretty much from the start, and have both really helped shape the great community you all benefit from.
To those who say just because they've been here a long time doesn't mean you should listen: you're wrong about these guys. You only have to look at the contributions they've made to reviews, collabs, chats, competitions to see they're the kingpins of this forum. I owe those guys big time.
And now they're gone.
ABOUT REVIEWINGI love how supportive this forum is. It makes me happy to see what I've helped to create. But occasionally I also notice mutual back-slapping. But that's not what this forum was designed for.
I understand it's hard to say what you don't like about a song, but trust me - the writer will thank you if you express how you really feel, and if you can, back it up with suggestions for improvement. For example, the melody is OK, but would be greatly improved by adding more movement and less repetition.
To sum up: We're all adults, and I'm not afraid of letting disagreements run their course on the forum. But it's a wake up call when the youngest members are the ones talking the most sense (thank you Jess
)
Peace out
