Chrisette Michele: Change is good; growth is ‘Better’

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The constant scrutiny of the social media age has also been a source of frustration for Michele. She feels that everyone having a platform to voice their opinion has somehow undermined the public’s ability to appreciate art. “I feel like music isn’t celebrated the way it used to be,” she says. “Dance isn’t celebrated the way that it used to be. Freedom of speech isn’t celebrated the way it used to be. No one is reading into anything in an artful way or experiencing anything from a nonjudgmental perspective and it’s exhausting to be an artist where everything you do is judged as opposed to felt. No one is feeling anymore. People are just trying to make a point out of every single detail. No one is experiencing or feeling art anymore and it’s exhausting. It’s why artists travel to different countries to get their point across. Here in the States, I think we have a hard time feeling music the way we used to.”


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