Talk:Appetite of a People-Pleaser/@comment-53539-20171019085612/@comment-28951715-20171107210509

If anything I'll applaud the amount of effort that GHOST puts into her  art for the songs. I've never been able to listen to their music or Creep's that often because it's more readily categorized as "noise" than music. My understanding is that GHOST and Creep are as popular as they are because they're dark and "edgy" (lol) and just write that kind of intense weird dark stuff that has personal meaning, so people can relate to it to a degree.

That being said, it's always been hard to understand GHOST's lyrics when they're sung. I don't know if they've ever played around with phonemes beyond making Flower sing Engrish in a somewhat passable way, but english vocaloids typically need a lot of fiddling with when it comes to phonetics.

Overall I just don't like a lot of GHOST's stuff or Creep's because as mentioned before, it's repetitive and it's the same, and it all has the same theme. GHOST does well with art and it's been interesting watching how they grow as an artist, but at the end of the day the music's just...subpar. There are lots of people who'd be willing to help with mixing and tuning, and they'd be willing to do it for free.

But GHOST could also go to someone and pay them to mix/tune, because they do have a patreon and are making hundreds of dollars every month. So there's not really an excuse for the mixing sounding as horrible as it is. Especially considering they've got the economic means to do better, which very few upcoming Western producers have.

It's just a bunch of underserved hype, imo. I want GHOST to succeed and be a better producer, which can be achieved if they put in the effort and branch out, trying to find others willing to help. Find someone who's strong where you're weak (the mixing jesus christ) and go from there.

I've never bought into the whole "dark/creepy" western music because it's just messy and poorly written and poorly executed. I'm like...is the market for this 13-yr-olds who don't listen to music or- lol

Just kidding. But seriously; it's not hard to improve if you're willing to research and put in the effort. And again, when you're making hundreds of dollars a month, one would think you could use that and put it to good use; making your music good.

If not for yourself, for the people giving you the hundreds of dollars. How long before they get tired of hearing the same thing over and over?