{"id":526187,"date":"2022-12-12T19:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T19:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:36:17","slug":"alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something\/","title":{"rendered":"#Alex G is trying to tell you something"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a261ed21b052\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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.custom-attribution a {\n   color: #9cca0c;\n }<\/p>\n<p> article.custom .content_block blockquote.pull_quote {\n   color: #9cca0c;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240531\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Alex G is trying to tell you something\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      As the cult singer-songwriter\u2019s music becomes more confounding and compelling, his process becomes more mysterious \u2014\u00a0even to him.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"photographer\">Photographer <span class=\"credit_name\">Justine Nelson<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" 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src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Twitter-8d78f695280aa3f8a4461702c68e9fcbfd6042af1600c62d49fdec4b735fb57a.png\" alt=\"Fdr socialsharing twitter\"><!-- <span>Tweet<\/span> --><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/logo-snapchat-5f1563935ac089d0cf1773f642ddbfb6cdb16e8c4ac14fec95a3c11b6f963389.svg\" alt=\"Logo snapchat\"><!-- <span>Snap<\/span> --><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240529\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span class=\"lead-text\">There is a point<\/span> early on during my conversation with Alex Giannascoli when I realize that he is physically struggling to answer a question. It\u2019s an unseasonably warm fall day in Toronto\u2019s East End, the latest stop on a North American tour to promote his ninth album <i>God Save The Animals<\/i>, and the 29-year-old singer-songwriter is sitting next to me on a park bench staring out at a motionless man-made lake. At his feet is my dog, Maggie, a five-year-old mutt who I\u2019ve brought with me in a thinly-veiled attempt to help Giannascoli open up. He occasionally reaches down to scratch her right ear, and they both seem h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ier for it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Giannascoli has never enjoyed talking about his own work. Even in his earliest interviews, he seemed to be struggling to express exactly why he felt compelled to keep writing and recording. \u201cI have like, a feeling, and I make music to match this thing, this feeling,\u201d he told Patrick D. McDermott at The FADER eight years ago, when he was first emerging as a preternaturally gifted indie songwriter. \u201cIt&#8217;s extreme. It&#8217;s like, not being able to deal with the way reality is.&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/qkgeg7\/alex-g-is-all-grown-up\">When I interviewed him for Vice<\/a> five years ago around the release of his seventh album, <i>Rocket<\/i>, he spoke about his own process as though it were an arcane, foreign subject, something he\u2019d just learned about the previous week and suddenly had to speak about in depth. He says that he works almost unconsciously, on instinct, without stopping to over-analyze the oblique poetry of his lyrics or the odd melodic turns his songs might take. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240542\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03149_cwagtf\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Alex G is trying to tell you something\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240532\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            At this point it\u2019s probably true; Giannascoli isn\u2019t squirreling away secrets about the way he writes. But it\u2019s impossible not to push him on the subject. Increasingly, the albums he\u2019s released as Alex G \u2014 and briefly (Sandy) Alex G \u2014 have had their own particular focuses. On <i>God Save The Animals<\/i>, as ever, Giannascoli sings through characters, each with their own motives and flaws; he snakes between glowing alt-country and paranoid, angular rock. But throughout, his protagonists circle back to faith, religion, and God \u2014 subjects he\u2019s only really considered in passing on previous albums. He writes about these ideas so affectingly \u2014 he opens the album by hypnotically repeating \u201cAfter all, people come and people go away \/ Yeah, but God with me he stays\u201d \u2014 it seems each line must have been crafted and redrafted over and over again. <\/p>\n<p>            Even when Giannascoli insists that this isn\u2019t the case, though, he\u2019s kind and thoughtful. He knows that he can\u2019t explain what exactly it is that makes him write and record music, or why he writes about one thing over another. But he\u2019s determined to explain why he can\u2019t explain it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"content_block flush image\" id=\"content_block-240538\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03201_rvmou5\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Alex G is trying to tell you something\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240530\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/09\/arts\/music\/alex-g-god-save-the-animals.html\">You gave an interview to the New York Times recently<\/a> where you said that your songwriting process was unconscious, a bit like catching a ball. <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Alex G:<\/b> Right. If I think about it, then it starts to screw it up.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Are you familiar with the concept of the yips?<br \/><\/b><br \/>No.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>They say that baseball pitchers or golfers might get the yips. Everything goes wrong with their motion or their swing, and it&#8217;s because they start thinking about it. Rather than relying on muscle memory, they start thinking about every single movement they have to make. I wonder if it\u2019s the same for you: if you had to start thinking about it, then it would be a conscious act.<br \/><\/b><br \/>It sounds like a cop-out answer, but I guess I&#8217;m just trying to be honest when I talk about it; it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m consciously not thinking about it. I just do it. And I am thinking about it, but I couldn&#8217;t tell you what I was thinking about. It&#8217;s not an effort. The effort comes in when it comes down to the stuff that comes after the bulk of the song has been written, when we do production stuff. That is pretty grueling. The essence of the song is something I sit down and think about and do. But if I try to talk about it, it&#8217;s dishonest. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>The way you talk about it, it sounds very close to the literal meaning of inspiration: being spoken to by God.<br \/><\/b><br \/>I don&#8217;t know what it is. Sometimes I wonder if it&#8217;s just some weird innate desire for attention that I don&#8217;t have control over. I&#8217;m not trying to be attention-seeking in my everyday life, but I have that urge to do it over and over. I guess now it&#8217;s my career, so that&#8217;s another motivation.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240536\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03112_xhle4w\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Alex G is trying to tell you something\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; 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If you knew that nobody else would hear it?<br \/><\/b><br \/>Well, I think even if no one else was going to hear it, I would always be doing it for other people to hear it. Like when I started, when I was a kid, the only person that would listen was my sister and maybe some of my friends. But in my mind, I was like, &#8220;I have to do this to show them and whoever else.&#8221; It always felt like a big deal.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240637\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>I guess faith is believing that you deserve to be loved. I don\u2019t know much about any religions, but from talking to people who are religious, loving yourself because God made you\u2026 there\u2019s a purpose for you to be here.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240537\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>So do you think you&#8217;ve always written with an audience in mind? Surely you don&#8217;t think about an audience when you&#8217;re writing it.<br \/><\/b><br \/>I&#8217;m putting a piece of myself out there. I can craft it and take as long as I want to craft it to make sure that people will accept it. It\u2019s much more complicated than me being like, &#8220;So tell me I did a good job.&#8221; It&#8217;s not that simple. But I think, in essence, it&#8217;s just another way to be accepted by people.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>What does faith mean in the context of this album?<br \/><\/b><br \/>In life, you encounter people with different points of view and you mull them over yourself to see how it would work with your perspective. Experiences like that made me try out writing from different points of view. I think on some of the songs, it&#8217;s a resigned point of view \u2014 which I guess isn&#8217;t true faith. But then on others, I guess faith is believing that you deserve to be loved. I don&#8217;t know much about any religions, but from talking to people who are religious, loving yourself because God made you\u2026 there&#8217;s a purpose for you to be here. You deserve love innately because of that. It&#8217;s not a matter of what you did or who you are, it&#8217;s just because you&#8217;re a person, you deserve to be loved. But honestly, man, I don&#8217;t think I cover that very well in the songs. The songs are so scrambled. It&#8217;s just something that I guess I had thought about during the time I was writing, but I don&#8217;t know if I put it into the songs that effectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            I guess it comes back to what you were saying when you were asking me before about what I do, and I am thinking about it, but I couldn&#8217;t tell you what happened between when I had a blank piece of paper and then when I had lyrics on it. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"content_block flush image\" id=\"content_block-240541\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03186_sjts3p\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Alex G is trying to tell you something\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240539\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>We literally had to take a back exit from a venue to get here. You\u2019re a rock star now, and with that comes increased scrutiny on the songs and on you; people want to decipher things. Does that make you feel uncomfortable?<br \/><\/b><br \/>The only times I get uncomfortable is when people are looking into my actual life, just because, like anybody, there&#8217;s tons of stuff I&#8217;d like to keep private. I guess I&#8217;m happy that people do that because it means something to them. It feels good. I guess that&#8217;s the idea, is to make something that people can immerse themselves in. The stuff that I like is kind of escapist stuff where you can just dive in and get lost in it. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>You are studiously not on any social media.<br \/><\/b><br \/>Besides advertising stuff. I just have no interest in it and I guess I wouldn&#8217;t want it to get in the way of anything I&#8217;m making.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Would it interfere with your mind in a way that would alter your creative process?<br \/><\/b><br \/>No, I feel like my personal shit isn&#8217;t relevant or important so I have no desire to put it out there. I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Oh my music&#8217;s so important.&#8221; But that&#8217;s something that I spend time crafting and so I&#8217;m proud to put it out there. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>I wonder if having music to put out there sort of negates the need. That&#8217;s your way of communicating with the outside world.<br \/><\/b><br \/>Totally, yes. A hundred percent. I just have nothing to say on this level, just talking, I have nothing to say. Music\u2026 I love communicating like that though.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-240540\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/DSC03214_ej8ryd\/alex-g-is-trying-to-tell-you-something.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Alex G is trying to tell you something\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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