How good a violinist is she, really?
Opinions vary all the way from “The world’s greatest violinist” to “truly awful”. But the extreme opinions are probably influenced by her image and looks, either by people that idolize her or people that want to demonize her. Even some harsh critics who hate her image concede that she has talent. She was a child prodigy but today she seldom has time to practice and study and develop her classical repertoire because of her very busy schedule. Her concert tours are quite different from guest performances by conventional classical virtuosos, so she has been performing the classical music that is on her albums plus a few more pieces, rather than needing to develop a very large classical repertoire. She can play very fast, especially on her own songs. Some critics say that making a fair judgement of her musical technique is very difficult because of her pop star image. Anyway, making detailed comparisons of whom is the world’s best violinist is rather pointless, because violin playing is no
