>>12283505>objectivelyliterally, definitionally nonapplicable. there are certainly times when they've been most popular/successful, but that doesn't mean those songs are just better.
plenty of artists have gone on record saying they think they'd be way more successful if they made X sort of music or just kept their original style but they don't because they just don't like it as much. no matter what an artist puts out there's always going to be someone who likes it a lot, it's just a matter of how many of those people there are and if they were already fans.
taking it to a logical extreme, if metallica decided to become a jazz band halfway through their career and lost all their fans that doesn't mean their new music is objectively worse, it just means the people who liked them before don't like them anymore and jazz has a smaller audience. if they did make that decision it would be super lame if they kept playing metal at concerts just because that's what the fans want.
i'm just arguing a less extreme version of that. i think it's perfectly reasonable for artists to play what they believe is their best work or identifies closest with the current image they want to portray rather than owing it to the fans to just play their most popular songs.
well yeah but this isn't there first japanese tour is it? point is that they've played that stuff in concert in japan recently, so it makes sense for them to have a very different set for this tour
