Tiesto revealed an unexpectedly sensitive side behind his usual trance-by-numbers automaton like persona this week, revealing that he occasionally feels offended by hyper-critical postings on forums.
“In the past I noticed comments from people who were also in the music scene, like other DJs or producers. And when you make one or two small mixing mistakes a night, they write on the forums ‘my whole night was ruined because of that’. Come on – one or two little mistakes during the whole night, big deal! Stuff like that can happen!” the trance star complained. “Well, that is how I personally think about it,” he continued. “We’re all human and we all make mistakes. I see everybody going nuts and that’s the most important thing for me,” he told Scandinavian portal Trance.Nu.
Thick-skinned techno type Dave Clarke empathised, telling Skrufff, “I try to deal with criticism in the same way as when I get over-praised, but yes, I’m human and yes, it can hurt. Sometimes I read forums, and yes, of course, I have been criticised, but most of the time the people that do it have false names and the comments are often by people that profess to know me when they have maybe at best had two words with me at the end of a set,” he said. “Some of the bullshit is legendary, like I had rich parents who paid for everything when I started (was that before or after I was homeless?), insults aimed at my family, crap about my rider that simply isn’t true. There are some vicious PR companies out there as well,” Dave added.
US progressive house star Chris Fortier said he rarely visits forums nowadays ‘unless someone sends me a specific link’ after realising he was being ‘distracted from his real work’ by their commentary. “I think overall forums are good for dance music as they provide more people with more knowledge and information, and that is a good thing; my only problem is how some of the speech can so hateful,” Chris told Skrufff. “Critical and negative viewpoints are fine, but there really is no need for anything to be vile and hateful and just plain evil,” he said. “I am sure there have been some negative or critical things about me or my music, and that is fine. My only hope in those cases is to make sure the facts of the circumstances are right,” Chris continued.
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