WEBVTT - What’s With Musicians Turning To Acting? 🎵 🎭 📽️

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms.

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<v Speaker 2>Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex and Frooms catch

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<v Speaker 2>up podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Flexing Frooms on cater I'm very mindful of referring to

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<v Speaker 1>people doing things as trends, because sometimes we just do

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<v Speaker 1>stuff in big numbers. But for the last ten years,

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<v Speaker 1>and for the ten years before that and the ten

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<v Speaker 1>years before that, we've seen a ton of musicians move

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<v Speaker 1>into acting. Who's to say, what was the intention to

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<v Speaker 1>begin with? Maybe they always wanted to be an actor

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<v Speaker 1>and became a musician. We've got Harry Styles, yep with Griana,

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<v Speaker 1>Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Ludacris.

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<v Speaker 2>Lady Madonna, Madonna did some acting.

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<v Speaker 1>Can we get a fact check on that one? Anyone

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<v Speaker 1>from from the last five years? Prominent? Donald Glover he.

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<v Speaker 2>Was an activist? But yeah, or was he different? It's

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<v Speaker 2>different when it goes the other way?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, we all got We've got to know, No, it is.

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<v Speaker 2>It's different when you become an actor to a musician.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a harder jump. That's a harder jump because people

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<v Speaker 2>don't take it through seeing who else. It's on the

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<v Speaker 2>tip of my tongue. Donald Glover, Drake de Grassy, De

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<v Speaker 2>Grassy came first matdow khin radio presenter into being a musician. Anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>it's multimus, I'm in touch.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you, we'll get that fact check. We'll say it

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<v Speaker 1>for like a little treat, little treat for us. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>Like I said, I want to call it a trend,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's an observation that I'm seeing and when I

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<v Speaker 1>observe things, I want to pull them apart and see

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<v Speaker 1>why that could be happening. Now, thanks to TikTok kind

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<v Speaker 1>of exposing the reality is what it is to be

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<v Speaker 1>a musician for people who are up and coming and

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<v Speaker 1>trying to break in. It's illuminated in more ways than one,

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<v Speaker 1>how exploitative the industry can be. People signing these contracts

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<v Speaker 1>that are trapping them into making no money for an

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<v Speaker 1>extended period of time, signing away their creative rights, their

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<v Speaker 1>creative intention, and becoming their likeness, their likeness, all of

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<v Speaker 1>the above, and so have some to think maybe, if

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<v Speaker 1>we want to be critical, maybe it's just not sustaining

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<v Speaker 1>to be a successful musician, aside from the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>you know you won't make a lot of money with streams,

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<v Speaker 1>and so you have to tour back to back to back

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<v Speaker 1>to back, hasn't. Harry Star has been on tour for

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<v Speaker 1>like three jillion years. He has all you do a

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<v Speaker 1>little one tour and charge six thousand dollars a La

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<v Speaker 1>Taylor loves dollars. It's a lot of money. Though you

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<v Speaker 1>can see the whole thing on TikTok. Everyone's like, how

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<v Speaker 1>can she charge this much? Master's price gouging.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought you meant she earned six thousand, Come on, now,

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<v Speaker 2>be for real.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I thought, maybe being a musician isn't inherently.

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<v Speaker 2>Attacks a lot. To be fair, she got a haven

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<v Speaker 2>in Panama, perhaps off the coast, little beach shack, flying

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<v Speaker 2>playerut in that plane, not five oo, which relies Kandama

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<v Speaker 2>like carly enough.

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<v Speaker 1>M. Then we think is because being a musician isn't

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<v Speaker 1>sustainable and being an actor is a far more I

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<v Speaker 1>would say, maybe reasonable way to make your money. You

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<v Speaker 1>know what you're signing up for, you know how much

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna make. You do the job, you get paid,

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<v Speaker 1>it's done. Whereas you're a musician, let's say you're someone

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<v Speaker 1>with an intense hype train around them, like when Frank

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<v Speaker 1>Ocean took a five year hiatus. You're coming back to

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<v Speaker 1>so much immense pressure before you've even made the money.

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<v Speaker 1>You spend five years making an album, you release it,

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<v Speaker 1>you get a few streams, you might not make any money.

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<v Speaker 2>J reckon he was working every day or having little

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<v Speaker 2>holidays to work. That's true in the creative process. I

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<v Speaker 2>apologize missed Ocean.

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<v Speaker 1>Anything else you want to add?

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<v Speaker 2>What a voice?

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<v Speaker 1>Do it be worked every day?

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<v Speaker 2>No, I'm actually wondering because like, like if you're not

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<v Speaker 2>in the creative industries, you'd be like why does it?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, people say like when's the album? Whn's the album?

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<v Speaker 2>Like he were having creative ruts.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, to be fair, he took that long because he

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<v Speaker 1>was he was finding a really clever way to get

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<v Speaker 1>out of his contracts, not get out of them, but

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<v Speaker 1>to fulfill the obligations of his contracts really quickly and

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<v Speaker 1>make twenty million dollars releasing Endless with.

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<v Speaker 2>Apple Panama on the Beach. This is the most part

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