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For someone who claims not take anything on the internet seriously, you certainly spend boatloads of your free time talking about or responding to it:
| quote: | It's heinous. And I'm such a sucker for it too. It doesn't destroy my life at all. I'm not making music for people that think I suck. I'm making music for people who either appreciate music or don't appreciate music, but can kind of take it in.
The internet is such a fucked-up bizzaro land. I'm not exaggerating when I say that of all of the places that I've gone, I've had a great fucking time and not one fucking person comes up to me and says, "You suck!" And then I get home. And I hop on these message boards and see, "Yeah, he's such a dickhead. I saw him at this thing once and…" And then they'll make up this midget polar bear story, you know what I mean?
I think I'm an easy target. Fair play to them: Maybe I'd do the same thing if I was in their shoes. Anonymity + an opinion + an audience? It's a recipe for… But, you know, I'm the same way. You should see me playing Counter-Strike.
I don't take any of it seriously. And, of course, after reading this people'll be like "Well, you should take it seriously. We're your customers." Well, contrary to your belief, you're .0001% of my success, so… People don't get successful because they get hated on by everybody. People get successful because people appreciate what you do and they support it. And they tell a friend. And that friend tells a friend.
In retrospect, I would have liked to have developed as an artist so that I could have been that underground dude. Take Shlomi Aber. He's not making too much noise, he's not wearing a big fucking head, he's just in there. But if he comes around and does a crossover track? Welcome to the dark side. You have to be careful with that stuff if that's kind of the way that you want to present yourself. It's just…
I'm not out to be a superstar DJ. It's just the way it fucking happened. I'm not going to take it all back and retract my Deadmau5 identity, go back to my humble underground roots. Contrary to popular belief I was very underground. I was in my Mom's basement tooling away on Impulse Tracker on a 386 just doing Nintendo music until some Loop Library company hired me as a producer. |
Would seem to me the best way to play the "it doesn't bother me at all" card is just to simply not respond to it at all.
But hey, what do I know, right?
Carry on.
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