"I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure"
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Self-promotion is supposed to be the easiest part of being in a band: grin, hustle, repeat. Evan Dando’s line flips that script by treating promotion not as marketing but as identity work. “I guess” and “about ready” are classic Dando tells - hedged, half-apologetic, emotionally cautious. He’s not announcing a rebrand so much as asking permission to exist in public without armor.
The key phrase is “in a more human way.” It implies that whatever came before didn’t feel human: the glossy press-cycle persona, the too-cool slacker posture of ’90s alt-rock, the expectation that you commodify your charm on demand. Dando’s career has always been shadowed by the tension between the intimate songwriter and the public figure people feel entitled to comment on, consume, and diagnose. In that light, “promote myself” lands as a slightly queasy verb - selfhood as product - and “human” becomes a quiet rebellion against the machine that turns musicians into content.
“I don’t feel quite so insecure” is both modest and telling. The “quite” matters: insecurity doesn’t vanish; it just loosens its grip enough to let him speak plainly. The subtext isn’t triumph, it’s recovery - a musician recognizing that credibility doesn’t have to be performed through detachment. He’s signaling a new kind of authenticity: not the curated, mythic kind, but the unglamorous kind where you admit you’ve been scared and show up anyway.
The key phrase is “in a more human way.” It implies that whatever came before didn’t feel human: the glossy press-cycle persona, the too-cool slacker posture of ’90s alt-rock, the expectation that you commodify your charm on demand. Dando’s career has always been shadowed by the tension between the intimate songwriter and the public figure people feel entitled to comment on, consume, and diagnose. In that light, “promote myself” lands as a slightly queasy verb - selfhood as product - and “human” becomes a quiet rebellion against the machine that turns musicians into content.
“I don’t feel quite so insecure” is both modest and telling. The “quite” matters: insecurity doesn’t vanish; it just loosens its grip enough to let him speak plainly. The subtext isn’t triumph, it’s recovery - a musician recognizing that credibility doesn’t have to be performed through detachment. He’s signaling a new kind of authenticity: not the curated, mythic kind, but the unglamorous kind where you admit you’ve been scared and show up anyway.
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| Topic | Confidence |
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