Quote Originally Posted by Vivi22 View Post
I would give the community here more credit and say that I doubt they would mock your music.
Have you not read this thread? :P

You might find some constructive criticism from those who are interested,
I'm not really looking for that here. It's perfect. :P

Seriously, I must have done a horrible job at describing what the point of this thread was to have been. I wanted a discussion amongst people who have released their music publicly about the contradicting emotions that surround it. I didn't want a thread where people could listen to my music and post niceties. THAT would be egocentric. Something I feel I was unjustly accused of by bunny.

or a "it's not my taste but congratulations," from those that aren't interested in the style but mocking?
Yes. Down right rude insults were posted on this thread, so I would expect nothing less should I have actually posted links to iTunes.

and some more faith in your own music for that matter.
Eh, you misunderstand me. I have complete faith in my music . . . verging on arrogance. I simply don't want to have Bunny or people like him posting oh-so-clever insults about it.

If you can't handle even some well intentioned criticism than you shouldn't put your music out there at all.
Again, I think you misunderstood the purpose of this thread. I'm not looking for critique on my music here, well-intentioned or otherwise. Honestly, I'm not looking for critique on my my music at all anywhere, least of all here. I'm not belittling this forum, but it's a Final Fantasy forum, not a New Age composers forum.

And you're surprised some people have made joking comments
Um, I don't know which comments YOU read, but I didn't read many jokes. I read insults. I'm not sure how "you are a tool" or "egocentric drivel" or "get over yourself" can be construed as jokes.

about you making a thread saying you released an EP and not giving the information needed to download it?
Again, I thought I set up pretty clearly in my first post that this thread was to have nothing to do with the music specifically, but about the process and the emotions in the process and for other musicians to discuss their similar situations. Apparently I hadn't made that clear.

You can't please everyone with your music, so as long as you're proud of it that is the only thing that matters.
On that we can agree. That's WHY I didn't provide links (well, amongst other reasons) . . . because I'm NOT here to get people's opinions. Had I provided links it would have been pages of "yay, good job!" and "new age is lameorama" and such. I'm not interested in that. I wanted a discussion amongst musicians about the process of releasing.

My apologies to everyone if it came off as bragging or as if I wanted a thread all about me and people congratulating me for releasing stuff or whatever . . . nothing could be farther from the truth. I just wanted a discussion amongst musicians about the process and emotion of releasing music.