March 17, 2005

Bright Eyes on Individuality

(Filed under: Culture)

"I would never say, 'You shouldn't live this way,' because I feel like that, in itself, is hypocritical and wrong. But a lot of the way that I write about politics in music, through the songs, isn't necessarily to say, 'Do this, don't do this.' It's more to show the way that these things affect individuals and a person's pscyhe. If you're talking urban sprawl, and The Desaparecidos record--living in this modern state, this specific suburban life, I think that it's detrimental to the spirit of a person.

"And that sounds maybe condescending or something, and I'm sure there's exceptions. I'm sure there are people living to the fullest. But I think that the way that America is set up now, it marginalizes the individual. You get put in to your little demographic and you get sold these products and this entertainment that's specified to what you're supposed to be, and you're never challenged, and you're never asked to live beyond this state where you're giving back to these companies. Giving them money so that you can continue to spin in their little thing they create for you. And I just think that's wrong. I think that being alive and being a human, you should want to be more than a target group."

-Bright Eyes, aka Conor Oberst, who just released two albums, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. (Source: Paste Magazine, February/March 2005)

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at 4:05 PM

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