Can someone explain why there is so much resentment on the Genesis Facebook page towards Peter Gabriel lately?
Not being on FB, I haven't seen this. What's being said?
It always maked me wonder why fans think musicians owe them something. It's up to them to record music or not.
I agree about fan entitlement, though there's nothing wrong with fans feeling perhaps frustrated at his inertia. During these years when, apart from the occasional individual new track, he's focused on retreading old ground in various ways I can't deny it slightly saddens me to see an innovative creative artist concentrate on re-heating old material. But as I say, that feeling is borne of frustration rather than any kind of resentment or a sense of "he owes us a new album!"
It's an interesting illustration of the artist-fan relationship. An artist creates stuff and puts it out there, and it then becomes a case of whether people like and go along with it. If they do, and like getting more of it, they're fans. Ultimately yes, that artist can choose to stop doing it and that (you hope) is entirely their decision. But if that relationship has been established the fans can then feel a bit cut-off and adrift when the material stops. Sometimes that feeling can be expressed as resentment. I don't agree with it but it's how it sometimes emerges. I want PG to do a new album but it is indeed up to him! If he hasn't felt ready to do one or maybe even is past doing albums, that'd be a shame but so be it.
We're on a board for fans of a band that have had an interesting relationship with its followers. I sometimes see that sense of entitlement coming out in what some here say about the band's changes of style, a kind of resentment of the way their music progressed and a sense of the band letting them down because they stopped doing the kind of stuff those fans preferred.