YOUR QUESTION:

09/15/2020 Are you able to articulate what it is that draws you so persistently to Britney Spears? Like why her of all pop stars? You don’t strike me as the ironic type (and it’s clear that you genuinely enjoy some popular forms of music) but it seems like at some point being a super Britney fan became a kind of shtick for you (that your weird, obsessive fan base continues to feed and nourish) and as the years pass further and further into the digital post-everything abyss, this peculiar personal characteristic seems less impactful and more and more meaningless. Like, for a serious jazz musician to “admit” that he likes Britney Spears in 2020 means nothing essentially, even if it might have meant “something” in, say, 2002 or somewhere around there. I don’t know if I’m expressing this clearly. I guess what I’m trying to say is, you don’t have to keep trying into your fifties to prove to the world that you are obsessed with Britney Spears and platypuses. Free yourself from the constraints of your past identity markers, Trevor!!

MY ANSWER:

I’m not sure why it’s perceived that I am drawn to her persistently. I wouldn’t say that’s true at all. I’m curious as to what you are drawn to: what the truth is about my life or what you read on social media and such. I certainly have no reason to prove anything to anyone and implore you to show me where at any time in the last 15 years I have said anything to express some sort of obsessiveness with either Britney or the platypus other than answer the questions of interviewers who chose to ask me about such topics. And then there are those who continue to read those interviews. Sounds like a the same style of “identity markers” that fans like to put on public figures. Thanks for the advice though!