“The LA Opera, Metropolitan Opera and Royal Ballet and Opera shaded Chalamet following his comments during a live conversation with Variety magazine.”

Well what he said was the truth, and the truth hurts.  I agree with Timothée because I know what he means.  Pop culture and society as a whole doesn’t care about screaming (what’s officially known as opera).  Nor do they care about ballet.  He should have said that screaming (also known as opera) and ballet are both special niches, because they are, and that’s why “no one cares” about them, meaning society as a whole.  I understood what he meant.  Why didn’t these dense people in screaming and in ballet not grasp that?  Screaming (opera) and ballet attract only a certain audience/group of people/a special niche.  And those who disagree with Timothée are in Denial of that.

Just like what I write about, “no one cares” about that either because the things I write about have only a certain group of people interested in it.  They, too, are a special niche.

His critics were taking a very fundamentalist interpretation of what he said, taking it literally.  That’s what fundamentalist so-called Christians do.

When was the last time that screaming/opera or ballet were part of your newscast in that section where they may feature  pop culture artists, (if they’re going to feature anybody)?

Of course their little special group (niche) that they attract with screaming and ballet cares about them, but that’s it.  Society as a whole does not and that’s what he was saying.

Most people don’t care about symphony orchestras or Choruses of any kind either.  For years, I’ve heard and read about what’s known as “the greying audience” meaning most of the people in the audience have grey hair.  Where are all the others?  They’re not there because they’re not into that or they can’t afford to go.  Most people don’t care about Orchestra Choruses either and that’s why Orchestra Choruses are mostly down to performing “The Big Three”, (Beethoven’s Ninth, Orff’s Carmina Burana and Messiah), with few exceptions to that.  Apparently the Big Three is all the US public wants to hear.  Gone are the many oratorios and cantatas.  The repertoire is more varied in the EU.

Orchestras in the US have had to attract audiences by catering to stupid, dumbed-down, and the lowest common denominator:    These days — and for some time now — some (or is it most?) major Orchestras in the US have resorted to putting up a giant film screen over the organ pipes in the Concert Hall (if the Concert Hall is fortunate to have a pipe organ) and the Orchestra plays a soundtrack as the audience watches the film on the screen.  (Psssst:  One can do that at home).  That’s what things have been reduced to.  Or in other words:  Stupid.  Dumbed-down.

The screamers/opera crowd and ballet crowd can go on about how they’re selling tickets but, again, they’re selling tickets — assuming they are — to that special niche they have.

Society has a whole doesn’t give a fuck about screamers/opera screamers or ballet or orchestral music or Symphony Choruses for that matter.  They also don’t care about what I write about.  Again, I too, write about topics that are a special niche and I know that.  My articles are not intended for society as a whole, because most of society has no interest in what I write about.  Society would have an interest in my articles if I wrote about burning cars flying through the air and jetting into a skyscraper in flames.  That would be a hot topic, but I’m not into that.

But what Timothée Chalamet said was the truth, which the screamers and ballet crowd didn’t want to hear.  They also won’t like what I’ve said here, but I don’t give a fuck whether they like it or not.  Again, the truth hurts.