Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.
So many artists try to be something that they're not.
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
Artists are like everybody else.