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Snarky answers to stupid feedback

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Jun 2, 2024
  • 2 min read

'Sellout!' - Actually, I haven't sold out. I'm still as indie as I ever was. šŸ‘‹šŸ» 'It was cooler when you weren't trying so hard' - Total bullcrap. No, bougie people just preferred it when I was an underground hit versus when I started to become well-known (and began to challenge their cultural supremacy..) Speaking personally, the underground is overrated. I got assaulted in that milieu. 'You smell' - yes, but showering every day isn't good for your health, and frankly both my odour and my weak-as sense of smell are hereditary. Plus, to quote some science, human body odours are filled with pheromones and are genuinely attractive to certain types of people. So, a number of you might think that I smell awful, but what that really means is that we have shitty sexual chemistry. šŸ˜‚ - 'Give VUW a chance' - Well, for starters I already spent four years there, and I'm really sick of their attempts to butter me up. My protest of avoiding their campus is an outgrowth of my desire to do so. - 'Be unrecogniseable' - No. I'm not living in stealth, and that's not my goal. I'd rather that people worked with my self-imposed style limitations rather than pressuring me to give those up. 'Stop being so crazy; give up the booze' - Well, I'm willing to concede that heavy drinking isn't good for me, but it's bloody difficult to motivate myself to cut back. As for the craziness, stop stalking me like it's 1984 and begin writing to me. I block the news feed on Facebook, and I barely check pages: email is the best way to get in touch with me, or FB messenger.

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