Well you are. Indirectly maybe but you are. If there's a minute's applause, regardless of who it's for, you DO feel duty-bound to join in, otherwise it makes you look a bit like you're the devil incarnate. In this age a phone clip of you not applauding posted on the internet will make you the...
It's great that people are prepared to try new songs, and as has been mentioned whether they catch on or not is nothing to do with the internet or even whether they're any good or not - they either do catch on or they don't.
The timing isn't very good though. Whilst I accept that the concept...