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Listen, buddy, if anyone comes to me and says "the average guy with brown hair and brown eyes is an idiot," I feel personally involved, because I have brown hair and brown eyes. The same reasoning applies to your hypocritical statement, which attacks without naming anyone, because it generalizes unjustly; but precisely because it generalizes, it affects EVERYONE with those variables. If I had written, "the average listener who gives this record a 4 is someone who downplays the artistic aspect and is a poser," many would have rightly come down on me, accusing me of everything you accuse me of—namely, innate arrogance. But you should watch out, because the air of arrogance masked as democracy might just touch you, and you don't seem any better than the others. And when I wrote "Indeed, a lot of people have bombarded me with insults in the past," I certainly wasn't referring to you; here it's YOU who shows a guilty conscience. I was simply limiting myself to suggesting you reread some of my discussions to realize, despite your better judgment, that I often started being unpleasant second, after someone was first messing me around. Of course, I'm no saint, and if someone labels me an idiot for giving a 1 to the latest Afterhours album, I respond in kind with a nice "fuck you." No tricks, no deception. But also no magic, upon closer inspection.

I believe you ignored my posts before and didn't even read them; it's not that which raises doubts for me.

Well, the little games can't touch me either, but since, interpretations aside, you used the term "poser" and the expression "The truth is that the average Italian consumer of independent music (let's call it that) enjoys feeling solitary and marginalized, and the artistic side ends up taking a backseat," the copyright is yours. I, who consider myself average as a consumer, feel I belong to that category. So if we really want to use the term disdain, which is quite ugly, it would be attributed to you; I simply reported words and expressions you used. And then, well, "you only consider your own parameters as valid"... that phrase should be verified too, especially I would like to see who these wise men are that claim other people's parameters in such eclectic and democratic ways... I certainly don’t send anthrax letters to those who disagree with me. Indeed, many people have insulted me in the past just because I rated 1 on their favorite albums and labeled them as ugly. I couldn’t care less about appearing necessarily nice up here; that’s not my goal, but I’m interested, as I've already mentioned in other contexts, in not looking like a fool.

I only listened to Fook by Pigface, which wasn't bad.

I consider my parameters to be valid (everyone considers their own to be valid), but I spoke about understanding (I often managed to know what others thought, regardless of what you may say) other people's criteria, not necessarily sharing them. Aò, and I even underlined that. So, I also warmly invite you to carefully reread my previous post. Then, if in some way you define as a poser every Christian who is legitimately annoyed by this little discussion (since, according to your absolutely ex ante judgment, anyone who criticizes a band that's a bit more famous than allowed is a poor unfortunate afflicted by niche syndrome), if you don't mind, I can feel called into question, as the illustrious A Toys Orchestra, Agnelli, Teatro degli Orrori, Zen Circus, generally speaking and generalizing a bit, get on my nerves, and not just because they are a bit more famous than the "norm." No no, for other reasons much more intrinsic to the works themselves. Reasons that relate to the fantastical parameters I was talking about. And you might discover that what puts the "artistic side" in the background is someone else.

But Fiquata is AlessioIride?

In the sense that the people from Lazio stink, they come from the countryside, you must be from Lazio by chance?

I cover my head in shit. Once you metabolize the seemingly difficult melodies and arrangements, everything sounds perfect like the Parmenidean circle.

You are mistaken, those are the laziali.

Well, what do you have against the Romans?