Tech | July 20, 2009 | 4 comments

Amanda Palmer: Did internet kill the singer-songwriter?

source: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/07/interview-amanda-palmer.html

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The first of a 3-part interview on Hypebot with Amanda Palmer, talking about art and the internet and fame and how easy it is to get confused where they all intersect:

"Being alone is hugely important. I've often thought that if I'd had the internet as a teenager, I may never have become a good songwriter. I think would have been too addicted to all of the wonderful possibilities online - I was a very connection-hungry kid. But that time to INCUBATE as an artist, to really spend a lot of time alone and improvising and being bored and finding ways to fill up space, that's what made me blossom creatively. It took SPACE."
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4 comments // Amanda Palmer: Did internet kill the singer-songwriter?

  • SDLN
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      SDLN  

    • It saddens me to watch my teenage nephew spend an entire day texting on his phone and wondering what my life would have been like with my face buried in a digital distraction for the past several decades.

      I've always had (what I call) a healthy dose of anti-social tendencies, so that kind of obsessive behavior has never been a problem for me. I can't even identify with it. I had a beeper back in the day, and it damn near drove me nuts. I have yet to get a cell phone for that very reason. The home-phone+answering-machine gives me some degree of control over my communications (e.g. "I was out of the house for the weekend" still works for me). I see no benefit to an upgrade.

    • 2 years ago
  • Cuddlebones
  • AndrewH13
  • quixotic12
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      quixotic12  

    • I would have to agree in some ways. I spend WAY too much time on the internet, and I am positive that there are many more like me, and many more that are even worse. *sigh* But I like reading about the world too much.

    • 2 years ago
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