I realize it has been a while since Ive written anything. I haven't really had time, or much to say, but lately something has been bothering me, and since i have a day off and no one has responded to my text messages yet, I figure I can put something to paper. I've
I have been a Bon Iver fan for a while. I can remember driving around in the snow two winters ago listening to Skinny Love and the rest of For Emma, Forever Ago to calm my frazzled nerves (believe me, it worked.) Skinny Love and RE: Stacks ended up on most of the mixes i was making during that time. I couldn't get enough. Justin Vernon was doing something that wasn't like anything else i was listening to at the time, and i appreciated it, and fell for it, head over heels.
Bon Iver's self-titled album came out, and i was immediately in love once again. i talk in that entry about holding my breath, and not remembering to breathe, and i find that still happens, months after my initiation. i knew at this point that i was a fan of this band, and was glad that the circumstances in his life brought him to make such beautiful music, and that the circumstances in my life brought me to find said music.
I have some friends that love bon iver like i do. LB comes to mind immediately. I have no problem with other people liking Bon Iver...if he isn't selling albums, he probably wont keep releasing them, because that would be a waste of money.
But now that he's won a Grammy, i feel like his music is the trendy thing to do now. people up and down my Facebook feed are falling in love and I'm having a hard time dealing with that. Hell, he was a SNL skit Saturday night, but when he was on SNL a few weeks ago, there were a mess of people in my various social networking circles wondering who the this dude was, and why does he sing like that? fast forward through the Grammys and they are all fawning over him like...like i don't even know what.
i shouldn't be angry or upset about this. i realize its stupid and elitist of me to be harboring these feelings of "he was mine first" especially because i spent a lot of time trying to share his music with everyone i knew. maybe that's it. maybe I'm just pissed because i regularly posted videos and quoted song lyrics and no one took the bait, but one stupid music awards show does what I've been doing for years, and everyone is into it.
Yeah, i laughed at the SNL skit (i even suggested recently to a friend that this would be good music to listen to while trying to rock her new baby back to sleep at night). but I'm struggling with what comes next. conformity to make records sell and sell out shows? a change in the music? a change in his style? i sure do hope not. THAT would break my heart more than any song Justin has ever written.
