Policing the opinions of the audience is a lot less cool than members of said audience complaining about a song they don't particularly like

No artist and no art is sacrosanct; all humans everywhere reserve the right and ability to criticize any art they feel like criticizing

If I don't like a song I'm not going to hold my tongue. Honesty is the best policy. No one should pretend to like every Phish song simply because they're a Phish fan. It's ludicrous to expect EVERY fan to like EVERY song. Come on.

The worst thing you can give to an artist is an uncritical audience. The artist gets lazy and stops making vital art if there's no audience there to give feedback

Just let people like what they like and dislike what they dislike; if I don't like ALBTD, I'm not gonna blow smoke up the band's ass and pretend it's a brilliant song lest I hurt someone's feelings in the process. These musicians are not little timid children who will stop making finger paintings if there are mean adults around; these are mature, responsible, smart adults who know damn well that not every song they create is gonna be spun from fuckin' gold. They're self-aware, they know songs like Jennifer Dances weren't beloved by fans and can understand why with some hindsight

No one needs to hold Trey's hand and reassure him that his songs are good. He's not that fragile. If you don't like a song, you should not be policed from saying so by other fans

Why is this on the front page of this site right now? Is this message THAT important? "Don't be big meany poopyheads you guys" seems like it could be relegated to a thread in the forum, it's not so earth-shattering that it belongs at the very front of the site