Is it just me or are almost all musicians boring people? You couldn't pay me to care about their lives or watch their interviews
>>130646275Most musicians are assholes.
>>130646275define "musician" because some of them were genuinely suffering from schizophrenia and paraded around like a freakshow
>>130646275"yeahh uhhh i just kinda play the guitar yknow i dont know how i do it maaan"
This is a dumb generalization but I want to play around with it anyways. I think the problem is a lot of musicians smoke the devils lettuce and weed tends to make it hard to articulate words even if you haven't been high for one or two weeks after and they're usually just stoned constantly
>>130646275Creating music has nothing to do with personality. In fact, seeing people in general in any field, it's pretty apparent that personality hardly correlates to professionals accomplish. That is especially true in sciences where people could have 3 fucking Phd's and still be retarded normies.Making music is not that difficult so the bar of entry is low.
>>130646346It's this, they literally just pretend to be retarded and downplay their abilities to appear "down to earth" so their normie audience sees them as one of their own, and it's a shame that's the standard now instead of giving people an enviable personality to look up to
>>130646489Making legitimately great music is very difficult hwoever
>>130646489Insanely resentful take
>>130646275I like watching/reading interviews with Ben Gibbard because I relate to his music :-)
>>130646667Just like with anything, most of the time the thing that separates something good from great is really... luck, right place right time.
>>130646672t. makes aggressively mediocre music
>>130646275>Is it just me or are almost all musicians boring people?Almost all people are boring
>>130646275Art is bigger than the artist, probably it's not even coming from the artist themselves, he is just a mediator of forces he can't understand. So yeah, they might be boring, ignorant, or stupid
>>130646275Maybe not at first. Depends how they started. If they weren't trust funders, they have a more organic rise and cool stories they built their songs from. But even then, after awhile, you're immersed on the road or in soulless shitholes like LA and NYC where you're constantly surrounded by fake motherfuckers and you finally have nothing to say yourself. At best, you're one of those shitty bands that just sings about some groupie you met on tour. Half of 70s rock songs were about this bullshit, even from bands that started off interesting.
>>130646275why would you care about anyone's lives other than people you personally know?
>>130646275Yes and the people who invest themselves in artists lives have something deeply wrong with them they arent willing to confront
Deguello [Warner Bros., 1979]These guys got off the road for real--sounds as if they spent all three years playing the blues on their front porch. The strident arena technique is gone, every song gives back a verbal phrase or two to make up for the musical ones it appropriates, and to vary the trio format they not only learned how to play horns but figured out where to put them. I've heard a shitload of white blues albums in the wake of Belushi & Aykroyd. This is the best by miles. A-
>>130646275no surprise that music journalists used to hype up anyone that actually came to an interview and say/do something interesting
>>130648479case in point. ZZ Top took a hiatus for a bit and were able to sing about stuff other than the rock star lifestyle again.
All the non-boring musicians usually either end up killing themselves by the time they turn 27 or they end up getting killed because they pissed off the wrong people. The music industry has a selection bias towards boring people since they are the only ones that manage to live into old age and actually create a legacy
