This was posted in the Panic at the Disco shoutbox on September 6, 2008 and it bothered me so much that I decided to make a journal entry about it.
Posted by Beatlesluvr33:
"i <3 the second album its the reason i am now a patd fann!! i love PANIC!!!!!!"
Posted by iHateWaffles:
"You don't love Panic, and your not a fan if you thought there stuff was shit before, and you hate it to death. Both of their albums awesome, but Fever was the best out of the two of them. The real fans are the ones that fell in love with them from the start. I can't stand fake fakers. I mean Like, shut the fucking trap shit bags. God, they make me fucking sick. The old Panic! At the Disco was the one that was unique, but don't get me wrong, I still love them to death, but when I see people saying "Their second album is the best" " I am now a patd fann!!". SHUT THE FUCK UP! Fever is not even close to Pretty. Odd. is right. Fever is better."
People are entitled to their opinions, but in which the manner they present them they are not. iHateWaffles could have easily said he enjoyed
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out more than
Pretty. Odd.. But, no he couldn't just do that. He had to go on the typical elitist powertrip that occurs all to often on this website. If anything, HateWaffles should have embraced the new member of the fanbase.
What makes a fan less than a fan for liking a different release from an artist? Look I could agree with iHateWaffles if he said he was a more truer/ hardcore fan for liking the band for longer and/ or liking all of their music, etc. But the way he presented himself was sickeningly ignorant.
I mean seriously for someone who has
Jonas Brothers in their Top Ten artists, iHateWaffles should not be yelling at anybody in the realm of music.
Look there are elitist all over Last.fm. From the shoutboxes of
Fall Out Boy,
The Beatles,
Radiohead,
Coldplay,
The Killers,
Bloc Party, and even my current favorite artist
Nine Inch Nails. Everywhere you look in any shoutbox at any level there is about 75% chance that you will see somewhere in the shoutbox some elitist or otherwise idiot spouting his/ her arrogance all over everyone. This is as they say, is the internet and people tend to take the opportunity of animinity too far.
Radiohead
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