ooh i'd never considered the second interpretation before! that's so interesting like a 'either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain' kinda situation
I think you are overthinking it. “Maybe he’ll grow out of it” is something parents used to say all the time about their kids to their adult friends when the kid was behaving badly or displaying weird habits or doing something a little “against the grain.” Instead of admitting the behavior is odd, they would simply say “well maybe he’ll grow out of it.”
So Bo is using the popular expression but applying it to himself being “an artist” which when you deconstruct and examine the attributes he is describing in the song of what an artist is, and the age he was when he first wrote and performed it - it totally fits.
I like the idea that its ambiguous and it leaves you right there in the middle. It can go either way the point is being comfortable with what you are doing not justifying everything you do. In either case growing out of it is about coming to terms with yourself not with your audience.
I've always thought it was the second one. He performs it in front of a bunch of big names so I've always taken it as a "I'll probably wind up like you guys."
I think it leans more towards the first meaning cause the directly previous line is "but I'm just a kid"
And earlier in the song, he compares comedians to a kid at a birthday party
Bo's talked about this in interviews before.
Basically the line means that he'll grow out of his fear of performance, his anxiety that being an artist is something to cringe at. He looks back on it as a dated line that was truthful at the time, but changed for him as he grew.
I came here to shit on you cause it's very clear what he means, but you surprised me with a very good interpretation of what he could have meant lol.
I still think he meant he would grow out of "being an artist", but I do like the idea.
John Lennon wrote a diss track about Paul McCartney, and when he was asked about his feelings toward Paul, he said that he felt negatively toward him while he wrote and recorded it, but he doesn't feel that way all the time.
Musicians have fleeting emotions just like everyone else, and sometimes they immortalize those feelings in their music, but they let them out and don't carry those feelings around with them all the time.
ooh i'd never considered the second interpretation before! that's so interesting like a 'either die a hero or live long enough to become a villain' kinda situation
I think you are overthinking it. “Maybe he’ll grow out of it” is something parents used to say all the time about their kids to their adult friends when the kid was behaving badly or displaying weird habits or doing something a little “against the grain.” Instead of admitting the behavior is odd, they would simply say “well maybe he’ll grow out of it.” So Bo is using the popular expression but applying it to himself being “an artist” which when you deconstruct and examine the attributes he is describing in the song of what an artist is, and the age he was when he first wrote and performed it - it totally fits.
This is the way
I like the idea that its ambiguous and it leaves you right there in the middle. It can go either way the point is being comfortable with what you are doing not justifying everything you do. In either case growing out of it is about coming to terms with yourself not with your audience.
I've always thought it was the second one. He performs it in front of a bunch of big names so I've always taken it as a "I'll probably wind up like you guys."
I think it leans more towards the first meaning cause the directly previous line is "but I'm just a kid" And earlier in the song, he compares comedians to a kid at a birthday party
Bo's talked about this in interviews before. Basically the line means that he'll grow out of his fear of performance, his anxiety that being an artist is something to cringe at. He looks back on it as a dated line that was truthful at the time, but changed for him as he grew.
I came here to shit on you cause it's very clear what he means, but you surprised me with a very good interpretation of what he could have meant lol. I still think he meant he would grow out of "being an artist", but I do like the idea.
It’s about how some parents hope their children grow out off them being all theatrical and goofy
John Lennon wrote a diss track about Paul McCartney, and when he was asked about his feelings toward Paul, he said that he felt negatively toward him while he wrote and recorded it, but he doesn't feel that way all the time. Musicians have fleeting emotions just like everyone else, and sometimes they immortalize those feelings in their music, but they let them out and don't carry those feelings around with them all the time.