Every Artist Should Be A Blog.
I’m starting to think that no artist/musician ‘has’ a blog, or whatever internet persona they may choose to be. It’s simply a continuation of their artform, a form of expression as disembodied as anything would be these days. And I don’t mean that as a bad thing. I think every artist should be a blog. There’s no need to shroud yourself in mystery anymore. Actually, being a blog isn’t a demystification of anything but a logical conclusion of being a virtual human being/artist/musician. If you pull the curtain, you see there’s nothing really underneath to begin with. I think that’s the real lesson of reality tv. If a celebrity depended on mystery to sustain their iconographic status then every celebrity who’s appeared on vh1 would cease to exist. The reality of reality television (and the internet for that matter) is that forms of media have no basis in what used to be considered real. So any artist that winces at the thought of being a blog should realize that they already are.
