About love and artists: A silly little essay to get things out of my head.
Love in and on itself is hard enough to explain. It's a word that encompasses too many different feelings, sensations, types of relationship and that is only thinking of the use of the words towards other people. We love our family, we love our partners, we love our friends and we love icecream. That's a lot of love, so let me try to explain which one I will be talking about here:
The love towards someone we don't know but still feel like home.
I could write many more words about this kind of love, but I believe it is quite unique and different for everyone, so let's leave it at that. Now, how can we love someone we don't even know? Because we believe we do. As humans, we seek for connection, identification and most of all, we seek to feel. Art makes us feel, music makes us feel therefore, artists makes us feel. When I listen to a song from an artist I like and admire half of me relates to the lyrics, melodies and feelings of my own life and experience and the other half relates it to the image I created of the artist in my head. This image comes from a lot, from articles, interviews and photos to more subtle content, perceptions and feelings I have while listening to an interview or watching a live video. With internet and social medias, content is almost infinite and with every video I watch the image I built in my head grows stronger and more and more real.
There is one important point here: This image is not only aparences, it's a whole person, with their values, beliefs, flaws and personality. This image is the artist, the artist is a image that reflects the person behind it and still protects their personal life. It's like a character in a book or movie. Harry Potter is as much of a person as any of us, even if he's a lot of different Harry's in all our minds. But now that I think about it, aren't we all a lot of different versions of ourselves in everyone we know minds? well, let's leave this for the next rambling.
But the love is as real as it can be. We love them. Because how could I not when I identify so much with them? When I feel their fears and feelings through their songs? When I recognize their voice faster then I would my own family? When I have so much of them to go back to when I'm feeling down? Many people judge us, the ones who love artist with their whole being. The fangirls, delussional and naive. That's not it. I dare say its the opposite. What we feel is pure love and we just want to give it, offer it. Its genuine and simple. Beatiful. If everyone could feel this kind of love inside of them, maybe we would have a kinder world. And that's the point of it all, isn't it? To live and to love? To feel and to respect?
We love someone we don't know because they make us feel. And that's more than enough. There will never be something wrong with loving someone.
So keep on loving without shame, keep on respecting the boundaries between the artist and the person behind it, keep on feeling.
And if you came this far, thanks for reading and I LOVE talking about all of this, so if you want to share something, my DM's are always open.
