elucidating artists
(dynamic thread I will expand on this)
We have a desire to know about the artist just enough and then create the image in our heads

A sense of mystery appeals to us
-Daft Punk wearing helmets everywhere they go

• Weeknd being faceless when he 1st came up
  —Kanye wearing a mask
  -Travis covering his face or looking down in every pic
  -PND rarely showing normal voice
  -new generation never doing interviews
  -Carti never dropping

scarcity is aural

It’s like a dialectic of having to be mysterious and relatable but not show too much. Kendrick perfectly encapsulates this with his videos like compare the NLU.video to HitEmUp

that mysterious s*** doesn't work on tik tok brain society

Yeat has done 2 interviews ever and there’s almost no details about him out period

Plus carti

Wiping your whole IG is just corny

Adds to the allure

Prime example is Drake heading to IG after MTG talking bout

“If yall can find my daughter I will come work for yall!!”

next to Kendrick not saying a word on social the whole beef

Also literally no one knows who Shakespeare actually is and there is zero records of him actually living in the area it’s claimed he lived in, zero books owned by him found ANYWHERE after he died. He supposedly had the most extensive library of books known to man and yet not a crumb of any evidence of the dude ever existing has been found

Could do a whole thread on Shakespeare alone. Many have claimed he was an alter-ego of Sir Francis Bacon

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They’re not being mysterious for the sake of being labeled that, they’re choosing how they’re being seen, how much of themselves they want to show and maintaining privacy or hiding insecurities.

Daft Punk wore different masks for a while to control their image and the mask evolved into the robot identity, plus they were inspired by other artists and media where identity was hidden.

HARRIS: What’s so interesting about that is you were this shadowed figure, and I feel like each passing year you’ve been slowly coming out of the shadow, so that now you’re no longer just The Weeknd, you’re on the cover of this magazine as Abel. Was it hard to take off the mask and step into the light?

TESFAYE: That’s very poetic. I wanted to be very calculated about how I wanted people to see me or hear my music. The initial reason I did that was I didn’t think I was marketable when I was younger, especially for R&B. I didn’t think I had the right look.

HARRIS: What was the right look in your mind? Because you’re a very attractive man.

TESFAYE: Oh, thank you. I think I’ve worked on it more now. Laughs The R&B look was very sexual back in the day. Obviously there were a lot of singers that didn’t have the conventional R&B look, but for me it was more of a personal thing. I liked getting an unbiased reaction from my music. People got to just judge me for the art, for the music I was putting out.

So it worked in my favor, and then it became a gimmick. No one else was doing it at the time, so it was a breath of fresh air. And then the mythology and the mystique of it ended up becoming as interesting as the music. I tried to ride that wave as much as I could. In the internet age it’s impossible, but I got a few years in.

Yeah but no
Travis we’ve seen photos of
Kanye we’ve seen photos of
New gen does interviews if you look properly

Daft Punk and Burial were the closest we got to truly ‘anonymous’ artists but that’s because they wanted the music to speak for them and didn’t necessarily want the fame imo

The ‘sense of mystery’ around artists is a f***ing corny concept

and that's the reason yeat isn't a star

There's a difference between "mystery" and "anonymity"

this is what happens when artists are too open

Still nothing mysterious about who OP is referring to

Carti is the definition of mysterious

His main fan base is on tik tok

once i found out nav was indian i stopped listening

there’s plenty s*** out bout yeat ya buffoon

It adds to you more if your s*** is objectively “good sounding”

spesh ed example

did that nigga eat his belly button lint, and while on live stage

remember when a whole maxwell album got buried because pitchfork writer invented some term like 'pb&r&b' and ppl fell for jmsn

that's a good thing

i found 5 different yeat interviews right away just by typing in yeat interview on google video search

and theres more if you search specifically on youtube or tiktok, also yeat does random ish on social media

tiktok era does not like mysterious nor diva stars - which is why most artists nowadays are active af on social media about "everyday" things

you dont need an interview to not be mysterious lol you just need to seem relatable or actualloy touchable which is what the current gen prefers - they dont care about old media nor industry politics

yall really are old niggas b

Yeat is afraid of people learning he's not about that life

when yeat did 5 different interviews i was there