are looking for a wild ride when they come to your show. If
world with her music. The only way this could be achieved
they aren’t then you are REALLY boring, and should use a
was for the nice girl to create a ver y impolite and engaging
stage name like Michael Bolton or Amy Grant to streamline
character (Trixie) to be her rep out there on stage. Trixie hap-
the process for ever yone.
pens to be a hell of a lot more interesting than the real person
Now there is a girl out there named Trixie Rasputin, and she is kind of a self proclaimed badass. Her real name is not Trixie, nor does she get paid to wear slutty outfits. And yet, at ever y show she’ll be wearing something that will simultaneously give you a boner AND make you feel like it’s your fault for being creepy. This is all intentional however, because Trixie is an alter ego of a person who is really quite nice and polite, but with an insatiable need to write, sing, and torture the
inside of her, mainly because she is imper vious to emotion, criticism, and embarrassment. That’s the point of persona. It’s absolutely essential for any musician to practice choking off the real person and letting their inner problem child out of the cage. If musicians don’t do that, we’ll be forever stuck listening to people like Michelle Branch tell us how hard it is to be pretty, white, and young in an industr y that favors people who are pretty, white, and young. SHEESH.
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