Picking up from yesterday –
Even my hero (Michael Jackson), whom I look up to in large part for him using his platform to sing about a ton of different issues/stories/interesting things – Brilliant Michael Jackson, who had songs from Heal the World to Black or White, to Jam, to Little Susie, to Tabloid Junkie, to Scream, to Earth Song, and soooooo many more… Even he still had In The Closet, Remember the Time, You Rock My World, The Way You Make Feel, She’s Out Of My Life, and plenty of other songs about romance and/or sex and dating and blah blah blah.
Relationships and all that jazz is part of life! And it feels nearly impossible to avoid talking about that stuff completely, especially if you wanna write and perform things (like I do). Heck, even as an editor, I’ve had to have a million conversations about sex and/or relationships in various jobs in which I’ve edited things that have to do with all that stuff (and people’s opinions and personal experiences start to come out in your office, when you’re all discussing how something should play, or how it should look)…
You might be able to write you own stuff without sex/relationships in it (if you’re writing all by yourself), but when you’re part of someone else’s show, you’re part of it. And relationships usually creep in, in one way or another.
They’re. part. of. life….
But all that has nothing to do with me and sexual assault guy. And if I write a normal non-abusive guy/girl couple, or if I talk about silly dating stories at a bar, or if I write a sketch about a “funny” miscommunication (or if I still laugh at that Key and Peele sketch)… that all has nothing to do with him either.
[Basically, some miscommunications, sometimes existing in the world, doesn’t mean that sexual assault guy so often using “miscommunication” as an excuse to hurt me all of a sudden becomes valid….]
And we’ll pick up here tomorrow!