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Stick to One Talent, Please.


October 10, 2007 | Tags: none


We’ve all seen it happen. The lyricist turned <insert second entertainment industry profession here>. Maybe it’s vice versa and it’s the professional sports player turned musician*. Perhaps an actor turned politican (because we all know politics is nothing but a big show anyway…), or music producer turned rapper.  The multitaskers. The people who think they’re just blessed with all the talent in the world and can do anything.



Yeah…no. While some people just flop at doing this (read: Mariah Carey in Glitter), some actually pull it off pretty damn well (read: Tupac going from Digital Underground dancer to rapper…) But switching to a new profession (or trying to handle two at once, a la Kanye West) isn’t an easy task to accomplish. You have to fine tune your skills that probably didn’t come as naturally as those that put you into the game in the first place, you have to have some good networking connects to get you the opportunity to pursue your second talent…it’s not easy!



Which causes me to wonder: if you’re going to put that much effort into trying something new that you’re probably only mediocre at talent-wise, why not put that effort into the talent that you discovered first and made a name for yourself with? To bring up Kanye again, since that seems to be the thing to do lately…I always felt like the guy was a way better producer than he was a rapper. But look how much effort Mr. West puts into promoting his rapping skills. Imagine if he put that sort of energy into progressing his already decent producing skills! This is the point I’m getting at here – if these second professions of sorts came naturally to these people…wouldn’t they have started out doing that instead? Why put your efforts into something that you have to force yourself to be good at, when you could put that same amount of effort into something that comes naturally to you, thus making you a prodigy of sorts at your craft?



If you ask me, if these people (and you could really go on for days naming the people that fit into this description) just focused their sights on one goal, instead of two or more, the final product of their labor could probably be even better than it already would have been had they tried to diversify their talent. I mean shit, look at how Mariah Carey ended up – she learned her lesson. She stopped acting, recovered from her loss of mental stability, and then came back with an album that would earn her a grammy, the title of having the best selling album of 2005, and a porn star look alike that wants to jack her name. Now, who the hell wouldn’t want that?




*Don't act like you don't remember when The Rock was trying to make music.





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