Amidst the acceptable rocking , mayana provided libations and alright beats of Animal Collective tonight I was able to muse on something musicish which has been bothering me for a while...well...not bothering but on my mind
It involves this man:
Mr.Sufjan Stevens has more spotlight than ever with Illinoise, and duly, but a lot of the stuff he says sends me spiralling into both questioning my love for him and how i want my artists, music and otherwise to ask (because of course i run a totalitarian artistic regime).
First, he said in an interview that "I don't have the inclination to discover new music. Honestly, I don't really care."
I don't know what to think about that. I personally like to have my musical cabaret/50s pop rut but then again i'm not reponsible for putting out records and making music (not since they took my means away). I'll allow my artists (extra specially musicians and visual artists if they produce stuff as good as stevens) to be a little eccentric but there comes a point when I go ...uhhhhhh... are you just being a pretentious jerk?
I'll let that statement slide though as I'm not really sure what he's saying or how or maybe he means pop music or something. What really is on my mind is on numerous occasions how he's said he's taking time off music to focus on other things like visual art and writing a book.
Now, when it comes to say me or my friends or brother or people i know in real life who arent famous for one thing I'm fine with them wanting to do other things and not be one note but there's something about artists doing it which makes me uneasy. We are in a time now where we allow it and it seems with agents and managers and crossover deals public and funders are more than willing to accept it more than ever. I always am just left to wonder did we really miss something because Chopin didn't get the means to write a novel?
I can't imagine the great classical artists just simply all weren't inspired to branch out but instead they chose/were forced to by circumstance to stick to one thing and craft it to amazingness. Is it unfair if i want artists to do that now? Am I some anachronistic De Medici?
The only way I can stop thinking about this is when I see what else he produces.
Maybe I just secretly hate him because he's talented and pretty.
CAM
It involves this man:
Mr.Sufjan Stevens has more spotlight than ever with Illinoise, and duly, but a lot of the stuff he says sends me spiralling into both questioning my love for him and how i want my artists, music and otherwise to ask (because of course i run a totalitarian artistic regime).First, he said in an interview that "I don't have the inclination to discover new music. Honestly, I don't really care."
I don't know what to think about that. I personally like to have my musical cabaret/50s pop rut but then again i'm not reponsible for putting out records and making music (not since they took my means away). I'll allow my artists (extra specially musicians and visual artists if they produce stuff as good as stevens) to be a little eccentric but there comes a point when I go ...uhhhhhh... are you just being a pretentious jerk?
I'll let that statement slide though as I'm not really sure what he's saying or how or maybe he means pop music or something. What really is on my mind is on numerous occasions how he's said he's taking time off music to focus on other things like visual art and writing a book.
Now, when it comes to say me or my friends or brother or people i know in real life who arent famous for one thing I'm fine with them wanting to do other things and not be one note but there's something about artists doing it which makes me uneasy. We are in a time now where we allow it and it seems with agents and managers and crossover deals public and funders are more than willing to accept it more than ever. I always am just left to wonder did we really miss something because Chopin didn't get the means to write a novel?
I can't imagine the great classical artists just simply all weren't inspired to branch out but instead they chose/were forced to by circumstance to stick to one thing and craft it to amazingness. Is it unfair if i want artists to do that now? Am I some anachronistic De Medici?
The only way I can stop thinking about this is when I see what else he produces.
Maybe I just secretly hate him because he's talented and pretty.
CAM
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