There are people in this business (You know who you are) who love nothing more than to infantilize the artists they deal with. Sometimes these people are lawyers. Sometimes they're agents or producers or executives. Sometimes they're even D-girls, if you can imagine.
And there are artists who slip into the role of helpless child with such ease and frequency that slowly over time, imperceptibly at first, they get sort of glued in stuck into the costume. And they end up prisoners of a sort... ambling through life like helpless innocents looking for guidance to all the adults in the room. I don't have a lot to say about this syndrome, save this:
It makes me sick. Maybe because I've never played well at this game. Have you ever seen that look on the face of someone who wants to treat you like a child? You can see it as clear as day when a suit you're dealing with is suddenly irritated that you not only have a brain but you choose not to hide it.
And I truly believe that artists will get far more of the things they desire if they enter a room as an adult, not as a helpless babe in the woods.
There. I'm done for today. I've said my piece. Thank you for listening.
