.electrolemon's 'September 21st' videos remain a source of pleasant nonsense in a world increasingly full of a more malicious chaos. He spoke with BethyBSQU about the pressure of being other people’s source of joy
Demi Adejuyigbe in 2020’s “September” video. Photo: Courtesy of Demi Adejuyigbe We rarely know when we’re in the middle of a life-changing moment. Despite what movies tell us, very few people meet their future wife and immediately think, Oh dang, that’s who I am destined to wed. Likewise, artists don’t know what work will connect with a larger audience and become what they’re known for.
But it’s a strange experience to feel it coming on. Every year, for the last three years, I’ve thought, I should not do it this year. Or else I risk setting myself in a perpetual cycle: I guess I’m gonna do this until I die. So every year, I think, I won’t do it this year. I tweet, “I won’t do it this year.” And then I come up with an idea and I go, Okay, that might be fun. Maybe I’ll do that. That’s the cycle every year.Not really.
I’m honestly the same way. There’s a lot of cynical and anxious thoughts inside me that I have no interest putting out, and I don’t know why. It’s not as much active suppression of thought as me going, I don’t have to think about it because it’s not gonna happen. It’s not real. Which I think helps me cope and do other things, and put off the pressure of being the September Guy for 11 months.
Yeah. It’s funny, I had just started that first music video in August when I said, “Let’s start on the September video.” Preproduction and brainstorming on this was simultaneous to the Open Mike Eagle thing. And that all swirled with The Amber Ruffin Show and also this other show that I’m writing an episode of, so it’s a lot of stuff at the same time. It feels like I went from doing nothing to doing everything. But that’s sort of pushed me to realize that I want to do it all.
I don’t want to do anything right now that feels like just a fun distraction. I feel very weird about people saying comedy is what we need now more than ever. Sure, we can do comedy, but it doesn’t have to be separate from [politics]. I feel like comedy is a very fun and easy way to get your real opinions and feelings out into your art, in a way that doesn’t feel like you’re hitting people over the head and going, “Believe what I believe!” or whatever. It’s a pill in the applesauce.
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