Single review: Bullet For My Valentine – “Hearts Burst Into Fire”

ok man idk who u r or who u think u r
but do us all a favor n stop bein a faggot n replacing the pictures with that stupid message
no one gives a rats ass about ur bandwith so chill out
if thats really what u worry about in life in stead of what normal people worry about like your health or your family then u need to stand in front of a mirror, look yourself in the face and say:
“what’s wrong with me?”

and scream aim and fire may not be as good as the poison was but its a fucking awesome album so get over yourself because no one cares

ok sorry im not from the uk you fucking dick
im sorry i dont feel like typing proper language and being all british up the ass sophisticated
shut the fuck up man
oh and by the way im a guitar and drum teacher and i make $34 an hour for it
im also only 16 so i dont give a fuck if i have a high paying career at the moment
so forgive me that i don’t exactly agree with your stuck up opinion that you feel it necessary to flaunt all over the internet so people will hopefully read it and notice you.
ok granted i may have gone a bit overboard with the comments but come on man you wrote an entire article about hearts burst into fire
and yeah its “anthemic” but who gives a shit
would you rather be the musician not giving a fuck about publicity rotting in the back of a van or the musician who has a huge commercial hit and makes money? Once again strategy. and even though bands like fall out boy and panic at the disco are all commercial but they suck and have no talent whatsoever as opposed to b4mv who are fucking insane so seriously man just stop writing shit about music that you could never write yourself.

I really think you need to calm down a bit, my friend. I wrote a bad review of a band you like; as you say, it will probably make no difference to their career whatsoever. I have as much right to write a review as you have to respond to it. Get over it.

And what you describe as “getting menstral” about the reposting of images is an automatic script that prevents a practice referred to as hotlinking. If you don’t love B4MV enough to learn how to right-click on an image and download it to your own machine before uploading it to your fansite or whatever, then I’m afraid that’s tough shit for you.

Next time you fancy debating someone’s opinion about a band you like, I might suggest that insulting the other person directly isn’t a very effective tactic. It draws attention away from your opinion, and focuses it on your poor communication skills and your essentially hypocritical argument, which effectively boils down to “well, I think differently, so therefore you’re wrong and I can insult you using racist, homophobic and sexist language, because that’s how little I care about your opinion”. Way to go, Hemingway.

So it’s lame to criticise someone for their communication skills, but then you just go ahead and do it anyway. Right on, “dude”.

I’ll use whatever words I like on my own website whenever I fancy it, thanks. Annoying teenagers with attitude problems in the process is an added bonus.

If it’s not a review, what is it exactly? Isn’t a review inherently an opinion? Or is an opinion only a review when it agrees with your own opinion, perhaps?

And I have no problem at all with Americans reading and commenting on the site. It’s the subliterate teenagers who can’t articulate an argument that wind me up… and claiming that to be a hallmark of being American is rather insulting to your countrymen, isn’t it?

Of course, you may have meant something entirely different, but it was just beyond your typing ability to express it, so sorry if the guesswork is a bit inaccurate. Oh well, back to MySpace, eh?

Okay! Let’s get down to brass tacks here.

I don’t care at all about Bullet For My Valentine. If they all suddenly suffered simultaneous, spontaneous, catastrophic stroke/aneurysm/hypovolemia/bus accidents, I’d probably say “Huh, what an odd and remarkable event” and then shut the newspaper and finish my Grape Nuts.

BUT! Statements like this one: “Reviews are not meant to be biased; show equal sides. You did partially but some of the ‘facts’ were taken aback from your opinion.” are no longer allowed. They are almost surreal in their complete lack of grounding in reality and threaten to get me kicked out of the library every time I read one. A “review” is quite CLEARLY one person’s opinion of a record or film or book or whatever; any attempts to be objective would yield only a bare-bones description of the item in question, along the lines of “This record is played on guitars and drums and stuff by some guys, and one of them does some singing.” The minute you try to compare it to something else, either specifically (“It kind of reminds me of Slayer”) or generally (“It’s in the broad tradition of heavy metal”) you immediately shift to the realm of opinion — it doesn’t remind ME of Slayer or heavy metal, so you’re wrong. See where I’m going with this?

Let’s be a little more judicious in the use of our intellects in the future, okay? That way, we can all avoid appearing (or actually being) absurd.

oh my bloody god. the comments above are so funny. but i do admit that the editor is very “stuck up”. sorry for not using your fancy language. but i do believe that even if this is your website you should not talk bad about the comments that others leave.

If you don’t like my website, don’t read it. Very simple.

But it blatantly isn’t metal, is it? Mastodon play metal; God Forbid play metal. Metal isn’t just long hair and black guitars with distortion, it’s an aesthetic that extends to song structure, lyrical content and much more. B4MV are a pop band. They play metal-tinged pop, but it’s pop nonetheless. What’s important here is to remember that “pop” isn’t necessarily a negative word; again, it’s an aesthetic definition, and in this case it’s a valid one.

gee can we all just get ova the fact that everyone has their own tastes in music!!! i myself love bullet for my valentine and i do love this song but not everyone like bullet for my valentine…

finally some common sense!!!