Parenting & Family Quote by Michael Musto

The charm here is in the strategic undersell: "simple kid from Brooklyn" is a self-myth that instantly reads as both origin story and wink. Michael Musto is a writer who made a career out of chronicling nightlife, celebrity, and queer culture with an eye that’s equal parts fan and forensic critic. So when he claims he "landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable", the phrasing does double work: it offers the fairy-tale arc of upward mobility while quietly signaling how absurd that arc can be in the context of glamour industries.

"Enchanted" is the key tell. It’s not "successful" or "famous" or "rich" - it’s a word from children’s books, drag ball spectacle, Studio 54 mythology. Musto knows enchantment is manufactured: lighting cues, guest lists, rumor economies, the whole alchemy of being seen. By choosing a word that implies spellcraft, he frames his lifestyle as something bestowed, even accidental ("landed into"), which softens ego while admitting a kind of complicity. He didn’t conquer the castle; he wandered into it, wide-eyed, and stayed long enough to learn where the trapdoors are.

The subtext is gratitude mixed with survivalist irony. Coming from Brooklyn reads as class and outsider identity, a credential that lets him narrate the decadent world without fully belonging to it - or being owned by it. The line flatters the dream while protecting the author: if the enchantment breaks, he can always revert to the "kid", the observer who never claimed the magic was permanent.