#filter bubbles

Meanwhile, Eno was stealing the show from Ferry, not musically but with his image--his flutterlashed amphetamine spider look on the inside of For Your Pleasure is alone worth the price of the album. Later he would abandon things like makeup and outrageous clothes both in and out of the public eye, opting instead for a more modestly functional look (even if he doesn't always keep his shirts buttoned much above the navel), and looking back on those wild visuals today he says: "It was just a piece of work, a very interesting person that I made for a little while. It was a person that was slightly separate from me as well, and the problem with it was that it was very quickly became a limiting for a little while. It was a person that was slightly separate from me as well, and the problem with it was that it very quickly became a limiting identity because for one thing it scared everybody away," he laughs. "Things like that act like filters, and this was acting as the wrong kind of filter. It filtered out exactly the kind of people that I wanted to meet, and attracted exactly the kind that I didn't want to. You'd have to have some idea of the English trendy scene at the time... it just attracted assholes I didn't want to have anything to do with. There was kind of assumed heroism about it, when in fact it was very easy to do. There's nothing heroic about it in that kind of situation, because if you're in a band you're in a totally protected environment. It'd be a lot more difficult for a schoolteacher, say, someone who actually had to deal with people outside the same set of assumptions. It's an easy way of getting a reaction, and being easy doesn't cancel it out--I suppose what also happened was that I fell out of love with that aesthetic of... not shock, but flamboyance.

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