Will Young says he doesn’t like the “vulnerability” of releasing music
nme.comWill Young has spoken about the difficulty he has found in releasing music and facing the judgment of listeners.The singer is preparing to take a prolonged break from music this year and currently starring in a one-man play, Song From Far Away.
Despite being in the music business for two decades, the singer told The Guardian that although he loves performing, he “doesn’t love” the industry side of operations, saying that “after all this time I still don’t know if it works for me.”He continued: “But I don’t like the vulnerability of writing songs, releasing them and the result being judged.
I never have. Even if they prove successful.”Young said that he still had a fair amount of unreleased music in his back pocket: “I’ve already got two albums that I’m sitting on.
One is totally ’80s, and the other is psychedelic folk. I can’t make a choice. It’s debilitating.”When it comes to acting, he said he believed his performance could speak for itself. “What the audience thinks of me doesn’t matter.
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