Nothing to Prove
Friday, April 10th, 2009Look at Green Day perform. They exude confidence. They own the stage, and everything they do earns the approval of the audience.
Compare them to some of the entrants in the early stages of an Idol competition. They shuffle around the stage in the hopes of earning brownie points from the judges - hoping that they’ll make it through that round and get a shot at stardom.
The difference?
Green Day have made it. They’ve sold over 65 million records, they’ve been around for over two decades (an indicator of success in itself of a band) and they have an enormous fan base. The Idols don’t have any of that.
But still, the early Idol competitors don’t have to be feet shufflers. They don’t have to awkwardly seek our approval - they don’t have to get anywhere.
They just have to strip away their self-inhibitions, because they too have nothing to prove. The performers who win our hearts aren’t out to prove that they can; they’re out to do great performances.
