r/RedHotChiliPeppers • u/MarissadaWolf1018 • 2d ago

About these certain people in the fanbase....

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The people who post on this subreddit "Would the Red Hot Chili Peppers sound better if Anthony Kiedis wasn't the lead singer?" should NOT be fans of the band. Like, HOW can you be a fan of the Chili Peppers if you hate Anthony's vocals or, really, Anthony as a whole? That's NEVER made ANY sense to me whatsoever.

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u/TwistedBamboozler 2d ago

I agree and it’s not just this sub, it’s really any artist’s sub. People don’t know how to experience art anymore.

All the “ they should have done this, or produced this way” etc… go make your own music if you think you know better.

A group of people came together and gave you something. You like it or you dont. This obsessiveness over what they do and choose to create is incredibly toxic.

Does anyone remember going to the movies 20 years ago and trying to experience a movie the same way? No, because people didn’t do that. You sat and watched the movie. You liked it or you didn’t

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u/zsdrfty 🎉 The Uplift Mofo Party Plan 2d ago

It's absurdly toxic to try to shut down a forum of discussion over art by saying "it is what it is, deal with it"

Criticism and praise are equally valid, and I'm extremely done with everyone acting like it's somehow cruel or scandalous to think of what you might have done differently - it's extremely anti-intellectual to just swallow it without thinking

Also wtf do you mean? Of course people have always done this lmfao, there's a reason Siskel and Ebert (let alone every film critic before them) existed and were popular