Time & Perspective Quote by Marc Almond

There is a particular kind of pop-star candor in Marc Almond admitting he was "a little too diverse": it’s both an apology and a flex. The phrase sounds self-effacing, but the real message is about control - of narrative, of audience expectations, of the brand that gets built around an artist whether they like it or not. "Diverse" here isn’t corporate diversity-speak; it’s genre, image, and persona. Almond is naming the whiplash of jumping from one aesthetic to its "complete opposite", the very thing that made him magnetic in the first place, then acknowledging the cost: audiences don’t just consume songs, they buy continuity.

The repetition - "I think... I think... probably... probably" - matters. It performs hesitation, the careful self-editing of someone looking back with affection and a little regret. He’s not renouncing experimentation; he’s diagnosing a communication problem. "Confusing people" is the key tell. Artists often talk about growth; Almond talks about legibility. That’s a musician speaking from the long arc of a career in which reinvention can be praised by critics and punished by casual listeners who want the same feeling on demand.

In Almond’s orbit - post-glam, post-punk, camp, romance, darkness, synth sheen - swinging between extremes was the point. The subtext is that his past was ahead of the audience’s appetite, and that pop culture tends to reward risk only after it’s been safely translated into a recognizable lane.