Simon Prodromou wrote:
What a good interview. We heard it from the horses mouth, the new album is the most modern sounding of all Baebes albums and was made to appeal to a wider audience. If that isn't selling your soul then what is!!!
Dear Simon, something isn't getting through to you and I think its this; art is a form of
communication, an artist feels the need to express something whether it be in paint, song or stone and bravely sends their work out into the cruel uncaring world, hoping that some few will find something that in it that chimes with their own experience or feelings. Until that circle is closed the work is in some way incomplete. It follows therefore that the more people who respond the more satisfaction the artist has that they have done something worthwhile. All artists want their work to be widely appreciated, they dont want their message to go echoing around an empty universe and coming back unsought and unheeded. To want to "appeal to a wider audience" is the natural aim of all artists, Van Gogh, for example, would love the idea of millions of people buying posters of his work, you probably think he has great integrity because he almost starved and died frustrated and despairing, but believe me that wasn't how he planned it.
That aside, great interview, and dont apologise for your English guys, having spent years studying French and still struggling to put a coherent sentence together you put me (for one) to shame.