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Originally Posted by Tellurium
And people are reversing the cause-effect relationship here. People don't vote for Stevie songs because they're "Stevie fans". Rather, people become fans of Stevie in the first place because they love her songs.
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I think that's only correct to a point. Yes, the music may be what draws you in, but once you become a fan of someone's you're often going to have a bias towards their songs period, regardless of merit -- even if merit is what got you there in the first place. Love and familiarity breeds a lot of leniency. Also, there's a natural tendency to want the star you like to prevail no matter what, even in a small poll.
I'm a Fleetwood Mac fan. I'm pretty sure if I was voting in a poll I'd have a tendency to give even their foulest songs a more favorable vote than I would an Eagles' song, regardless of merit.
I don't care what Tom Petty has done. I don't care how good he is. When I went to his concert, I wasn't going there to see him and there's not a hit he could perform, no prowess he could exhibit that interested me as much as Stevie simply singing back up on
American Girl, much less doing
Insider.
Michele