As a film maker and a collaborative artist this song holds great weight for me. If you want to make a successful film (or any art piece) you often have to push people away if they're not helping the piece. You want to be your co-worker's friend, but you also love the work you're doing and know that if you don't do everything you can to make it the best it can be, you'll hate yourself.
And so you push people away. Sometimes it's impossible to the responsible thing in terms of professionalism and in terms of your own personal life. It really hurts and it's hard for your friends to forgive you and even harder to forgive yourself.
I think she's saying that as a creator she has had to give up things, including some relationships, but what's ultimately more important is the work she's doing (music) and getting out her message.
She only hopes that the art she creates and the lives she changes will be worth the things and people she's had to give up personally.
"L.E.S. Artistes" was written after Santi White moved to New York City. The song "is playing on the fact that everyone tries to make things fancy and it's really pretentious" and "about being accosted by the New York scene and the scenesters and hipsters, who are really not artists and are just pretending to be. They're all about just being seen."[4] The title stands for New York's Lower East Side. "It's not a French thing," White stated in an interview with PopJustice.[4] On MTV's FNMTV, Santogold stated that the title literally meant Lower East Side Artists....
"L.E.S. Artistes" was written after Santi White moved to New York City. The song "is playing on the fact that everyone tries to make things fancy and it's really pretentious" and "about being accosted by the New York scene and the scenesters and hipsters, who are really not artists and are just pretending to be. They're all about just being seen."[4] The title stands for New York's Lower East Side. "It's not a French thing," White stated in an interview with PopJustice.[4] On MTV's FNMTV, Santogold stated that the title literally meant Lower East Side Artists.
As a film maker and a collaborative artist this song holds great weight for me. If you want to make a successful film (or any art piece) you often have to push people away if they're not helping the piece. You want to be your co-worker's friend, but you also love the work you're doing and know that if you don't do everything you can to make it the best it can be, you'll hate yourself.
And so you push people away. Sometimes it's impossible to the responsible thing in terms of professionalism and in terms of your own personal life. It really hurts and it's hard for your friends to forgive you and even harder to forgive yourself.
I think she's saying that as a creator she has had to give up things, including some relationships, but what's ultimately more important is the work she's doing (music) and getting out her message.
She only hopes that the art she creates and the lives she changes will be worth the things and people she's had to give up personally.
"L.E.S. Artistes" was written after Santi White moved to New York City. The song "is playing on the fact that everyone tries to make things fancy and it's really pretentious" and "about being accosted by the New York scene and the scenesters and hipsters, who are really not artists and are just pretending to be. They're all about just being seen."[4] The title stands for New York's Lower East Side. "It's not a French thing," White stated in an interview with PopJustice.[4] On MTV's FNMTV, Santogold stated that the title literally meant Lower East Side Artists....
"L.E.S. Artistes" was written after Santi White moved to New York City. The song "is playing on the fact that everyone tries to make things fancy and it's really pretentious" and "about being accosted by the New York scene and the scenesters and hipsters, who are really not artists and are just pretending to be. They're all about just being seen."[4] The title stands for New York's Lower East Side. "It's not a French thing," White stated in an interview with PopJustice.[4] On MTV's FNMTV, Santogold stated that the title literally meant Lower East Side Artists.