I'd like not to be antagonistic here, however as you don't know me, PWM, I don't see how you can say he got under my skin: I thought I'd made it clear that given a choice of taking or leaving him, I left him strictly alone.
My artistic medium is vocal - I'm a top backing singer, I've worked on stage with people like Goldie, Ariella Grande, Shlomo, David Byrne, so I don't see why I should have to publish here as a prerequisite to being to express an opinion, I'm afraid, people who don't sing come to hear me. I've had applause in my own right, it's out there on the web, leading the backing group doing the blow-off section of David's Atomic Bomb recording as I was the only performer from the backing group with experience of the HiLife style we were working in, which is why I got to frontline that choir of 180 singers doing every whit as important a section of work as Money Mark and the others. There are some who want me to go solo myself: having experience of the vocal profession which verges on the other scandals in film and theatre (I had to sort out the results of the Britten paedophilia scandal as an adolescent, laying the foundations of a choir which has produced a lot of pro vocalists, Florence Welch, Pixie Lott, Ed Simons among them), I chose not to, I perform for my pleasure as a resident vocalist at a major UK public venue and for not other peoples' wealth. I don't just sing, I mentor, and have written music too. That's what gives me a right to criticise on the terms you set.
I wasn't criticising his style, I was criticising his subjects, which I'm entitled to do as a member of his audience. He didn't address a void, he addressed people, readers here, and those people are therefore entitled to express an opinion of what they invest their time in. I simply said I reached the point where I found his work more often than not unpleasant in theme and so chose not to waste any more time on it: that I should say so says more about my appreciation of the Forum than about my disdain of him. I don't rap because I don't like the gang environment, "dissing hos" is exactly the kind of hate zone I dislike in Daffy's approach too, the closest I come is acappella beatboxing, to show the crossover: I was raised in an area, the edge of Brixton, where that was part of the culture, one I opposed and walked away from. I don't disagree with your comments on Gromet's right to pick and chose who he allows here, however, it's his site: I still wouldn't wish to read Daffy. Life's like that, some things are pleasant, some less so, we have the right to choose where we can.
If you can't stand criticism of your work, don't put it in the public domain. This is an open access site, so it is in the public domain: there are more private sites. Equally, you're as much entitled to a different opinion, I'm not criticising that, I'm defending my right to my own, as you crossed the line in trying to diss me.
