bellascribe

It doesn’t matter how you answer that question publicly. It matters how you answer it to yourself, and you’d better goddamn answer it.

The world is full of people who want to be writers, but don’t want to write. The airwaves are filled with people who want to be stars, and since they don’t give a shit about anything else, they’re easy to package, market and ship.

Does the occasional artist slip through to star status? Sure. But count to me the people who started out intending to be stars and became artists later. I’m sure examples exist, but the exception doesn’t disprove the rule.

It’s about WHAT YOU WANT. If you make something that satisfies you and pays your bills, is that enough? An artist can be happy with that. But if you want to be a star, that’s NOT enough.

How can you miss the essential practically of the question, John?

What I don’t like is this naive sense that pervades the culture, telling us that you can be both. Well, statistically speak, YOU JUST CAN’T. It’s like a business plan that’s based on winning the lottery.

And because we don’t draw those distinctions, we have to listen to a bunch of shallow assholes like Britney Spears talk about whatever they do as if it’s an artistic process. No, it’s a commercial process that has zero to do with art.

What do you think?