Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.
No one knows anything for sure.
I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.
I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.