The public sees you as one single person. They don’t see all your different moods and ideas and projects as seperate parts of your persona as you do.
ACDC sells one brand of hard rock and they haven’t changed the flavor since they opened for business in 1970whatever. Lady Gaga became famous for dance rock then switched to crooning and now does I don’t even know what kind of singer songwriting. That’s great for her to be so versatile but for me as a listener she has lost me. I want the Just Dance Gaga that I originally fell in love with. I want the Gaga brand before she smeared it.
I do comedy I act I design shirts and I release songs. To me they’re all completely different things. This could confuse the public. I don’t want people to laugh at my songs. Imagine Louis CK as a rapper. It wouldn’t work. Imagine Jay Z as a comedian. Would be horrible. Kanye as a comedian however… hmm. Might be hilarious.
Being a nut job on YouTube on stage and on Vine but then being serious on my songs can depreciate my brand. But since my brand isn’t even defined as it is, I am even harder to discern.
If I wear big shades and smooth sportcoats that’s great for my cool musician image but it detracts from my whackjob comedian perspective.
All of this makes me harder to market to the public and to cast me in television shows and movies, my ultimate career ambition.
The irony is, a greater actor should be able to embody all sorts of roles and take on all sorts of personas but on a day-to-day basis this is not what casting needs. They need the guy who rips off the bodega in Brooklyn or hands off the fulcrum to a secret operative. Maybe I’m thinking too small. Ok so I want to star in several movies and shows as an outlaw cowboy in the old west, then as a conflcited rock star, then a hilarious sitcom dad, then a failed actor who moves back in with his parents, then an interstellar border patrol agent who arrests illegal aliens in space, then a surreal weirdo whose senses never make any sense and he can’t tell where reality starts and his imagination ends, then an angry pizza chef who can’t control his temper, then then then then.
What do I say what do I look like who am I what do I wear who do you think I am?
Try to brand me but not with a burning hot iron rod because then I’m just a lousy cow on a ranch.
10/12/2016