Something interesting about meeting or coming to know an artist I admire, personally, is that their art pieces feel different to listen to or look at or read; it makes it a little less a song that helps me learn about or express myself, and a lot more about learning about and understanding the other person, the artist themsleves I know ok a more three-dimensional, less paradoxical capacity.
This is not a bad thing, at all. It's just different.
It feels less to interpret as my own in my experience, and really more as music in their life, instead of mine.
So the shift can be a little confusing. I don't want to listen to their music just based on my own individual mood as much anymore. It becomes when it's that *and also* when I want to connect my experieces to their life in a way that is more rich and simply possible because I know this person as a full person now. Not full as in I know everything about them, but the line between performance and expression starts to erase. And that is a very beautiful thing.
They have been people this whole time and when people forget that it is maddening; please, people, recognize their humanity.
But there is a difference between someone you know of, and someone *you know* to some revant degree.
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Coming to know an artist you admire - not necessarily a bad thing at all, but a change - while some say "don't meet your heroes" and change can feel intimidating, this csn be a very beautiful and worthy change.
When adding tags for this post I was reminded of an old piece of writing/concept/choice/mindset called "the perfect stranger pact." You can click the tag or type search that phrase to find it; or, I may update this post directly with it for it to be more accessible.
It's not the exact same concept, surely. But these thoughts are no far connection away.
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