Does an artist need conflict in order to create? Do we need the world around us to collapse in order to rebuild? Do we need to starve in order to fully give ourselves? After a while, there isn't much left to give.
Artists like Marilyn Manson, Eminem, and even Good Charlotte got boring after they stopped doing drugs, felt better about themselves, or just got rich. The problems they sang about went away. Is that why we're so much less impressed?
The point of making music is to better understand ourselves so we can change. Once we've gotten perspective on life, we do change. We grow above it, mature beyond it. Sometimes it may mean not needing that artistic outlet anymore. We've found other ways to express ourselves.
Those of us who don't, end up on shows like celebrity rehab.
Those of us who were never famous or rich, end up in the gutter.
Sometimes, art really fails to make sense to me.
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