Re: "proud" to make music people dont like (was something else)

[ArsOcarina@aol.com]

Michael,

In a message dated 8/23/02 12:24:57 PM, Nemoguitt@aol.com writes:

>do you really believe that some are "proud" to make music people don't 
>like?

I know your question was to Kim, but I thought I'd chime in here too.

I know people who are (quite perversely) EXTREMELY proud of their 
self-perception as iconoclasts. It sort of plays into the whole "suffering 
artist as professional pop-cultural victim" syndrome. I could name names 
but shall decline to do so. I have close artist and musician friends who 
are the living image of this (at least on the surface).

For the record . . .

I am very aware that I (for one) make music that most folks don't like. 
I need look no further than my most immediate "significant others" to 
find that out. But it's not that I set out to be "unpopular" by design.
Maybe it's just bad music. Maybe it's just me. But I do what I do.

I play the stuff I do because it pleases me to do so. It'd be terrific 
if it were popular enough to be a self-sustaining activity . . . really!
But it's not as yet (as if it even ever will be) and there is no point 
crying about its lack of prospects. It's certainly gratifying enough 
that a few folks do. But I'd still be doing it even if they didn't.

I imagine that there are a lot of folks like this on this list -- not
entirely indifferent to popularity -- but not particularly enslaved 
to it either. Maybe I'm naive. Maybe I'm just fooling myself. Maybe
we're all bozo "wannabes" on this bus.

Best regards,

Ted Killian

www.mp3.com/tedkillian
http://www.pfmentum.com/flux.html