The Model Epidemic

So here I am, I've signed up for Style.com's daily newsletter. I am happy about this because I will get to see what's happening on the runway, patterns, trends, hairstyles. I find this to be a way to get really inspired. 

But I'll tell you what's happening. All I have been receiving in my inbox from Style, are emails about models. What they have been posting on Instagram, what they have been wearing, where they have been vacationing, and so on.

There is an epidemic. A model epidemic. A world wide obsession with models.

Let's look at this from a real analytical point of view. What have models done or proven as individuals to really make them all that interesting? Don't get me wrong, I love as much as the guy and gal next to me, to look at these lovely faces. I am human. I can't help it. But isn't it getting a bit repetitive?

I'd rather have Style send me stories on interesting people to follow instead, interesting stories, about people who have voices and something to say, people who are artists. The real artists, the designers, the photographers, the editors, writers... The ones who are behind the art that is fashion. That's what I want to see. 

talent in film vs music

The difference between talent in the film versus the music industry, is that in the film industry, the talent must be talented. I mean, you must be a very talented artist to perform well for films and take your close-up, where there is no way to mask behind a bad performance. However in the music industry, you dont have to be an artist at all the stand behind the monster giant of the major label or behind the tricks in the recording studio. You dont have to play an instrument or know how to write a song, or really even know how to sing. The label will do that for you.

You see, the major label works like a big fat machine. It's a machine that takes people in, and spits them out, millions of bucks later. The machine has different parts, it has ghost writers, it has producers, it has stylists, photographers, video producers, PR companies, marketing gurus and so on. There is no need anymore for a "musician" to actually make real art. Cause it's all so compressed and packaged and perfect.

In the film industry, actors of all ages are respected. You must have actors of all ages to make films work, to play these interesteing characters and tell these insteresting stories. We need old men, we need unattractive people, we need real people.

However, in the music industry, so much emphasis is placed on appearance, on the young and beautiful. I don't see artist like Joplin or Hendrix or Cobain in the limelight anymore: people who are really fucked up and having a rough time and expressing it openly. That's what art is about! But nobody seems to want that anymore. They just want to see tits and asses, and young pretty faces.

But I still believe in real music, music that you wont see anymore at the Grammys. I believe in music that is real an honest. I still believe in that.