Re: Tim's interview: Preach! I am floored that he actually mentioned Heated Rivalry and buddie in the same sentence, it's crazy. To me it reads as: "listen, if (WHEN) we do this, it ain't gonna be like that gay hockey show because we just don't have the focus or the air time. You will get glimpses of the relationship and not an hour long slice of life dissection of their most boring secluded Canadian "silent retreat". that's what fanfiction and romance is for and that's cool, but at the end of the day, this is a procedural about firefighters so please don't expect anything else."
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Exactly - I too was stunned that he brought up HR - and your thoughts on his reason for doing so are exactly the same as mine! Tim isnât stupid and he knows how to answer an interview question. He would never have even brought up HR if he wasnât trying to tell us something whilst also trying to set expectations about how buddie canon will be presented - it just wasnât necessary - there are a hundred different ways to answer that question and actually shut down or reduce hope when it comes to budding without needing to bring up HR - in fact bringing up HR rather does the opposite if you wanted to do that- you wouldnât want you queer ship that isnât canon remotely connected to HR if said ship wasnât happening because thatâs just asking for trouble and you being accused of queerbaiting!
I like to go back and read interviews after a season has ended because they hit so differently because you can see how much they actually gave away without giving anything away and Iâm pretty sure this one will be the same - we will look back at the end of s9 and this answer will feel even more revealing than I think it already feels!
Glad weâre on the same page - itâs always good to know others feel the same way you do!! Iâm even more excited for tomorrow night now!!
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The interview was enlightening, and I like having the information, BUT I have to admit, I will be pretty disappointed if Elain doesn't get her own book.
Feyre gets a trilogy, Nesta gets her own book. If Elain is side-lined in this epic saga she has written it's just going to feel like she's shunted the character to the side.
Which doesn't really feel that good. Especially when she's been dropping hints about Elain throughout the other series.
Idk it will feel pretty icky if Elain, who's a character who is used to not being listened to, and ignored as just a side character, is actually treated like that by the author.
Anxiety is really shitty. Like I just nailed an interview, got the congratulations and everything from the interviewer, and my anxiety is all "ok, but clearly they hated you and you suck, and you're going to get a phone call that will list all your failures and no one is going to like you because you couldn't pass the interview."
But I KNOW I passed. I've tanked enough interviews to know how bad ones end. And it's not with congratulations.
My biggest fear is that I tell people I passed and then have to be like "oh, no, I actually failed and lied to you all."
So I wanted to talk a little about this interview. Itâs a pretty intense interview in that you can tell the moodâs a bit somber. Itâs from December of last year, so the boys were crazy busy then and you can tell theyâre exhausted.
In this interview they touch on a lot of sensitive topics, like how sleeping 2-3 hours has become the norm, how much extra effort Jin and Namjoon have to put in to learn choreo and still struggle with it, their strict dieting including Jimin and Jungkook eating once a day, and how different their reactions to outside pressure are, especially yelling.
That last bit is the part that really stuck with me. Suga says that he often yells at Jimin because he feels it has the most impact.
Suga: Itâs unconditionally effective. If you want to give up after being yelled at, then that person cannot sustain a long career in music. I think thatâs the most important thing about our job.
Jimin immediately rebuts.
Jimin: I donât think itâs a good technique.
Then goes on to say later.
Jimin: I absolutely do not like that . I really canât understand why one must say such excessive words so I really hate that way of doing things. On the other hand, you will have to do it after being yelled at⌠so half of it is true.
Itâs important to note that this response is something Yoongi built up after being constantly yelled at and told that he was âno goodâ and that heâd ânever make itâ. He reacts to criticism bitterly and with aggression because thatâs part of how he found the fight to continue rapping and succeed.
Jimin on the other hand is much more sensitive, he calls himself âtimidâ and he didnât have much experience with heavy criticism before all this. Especially not concerning vocals as he had never really sang until he got recruited. He also shows his tendency to avoid conflict in that last statement by adding that Suga is half right. He canât bring himself to disagree with his hyung totally.Â
Unlike Namjoon, who I think butted in because of the conflict, and stated that different people need different approaches, and that he also can't take criticism like Jimin.
They all put in their two cents. J-hope feels the same as Jimin, but doesnât like people to know heâs hurting so he hides it. Jin and Jungkook let most of it just roll off their back, and V is relatively flighty so if he feels he canât succeed at something he just gives up and moves on.
All of this is really crucial to their group dynamics. We know that Jimin struggles with his self-confidence and we know that he plays the maknae of the group because heâs the most innocent and easiest to tease. But heâs also the one thatâs hurt the easiest and struggles to feel accomplished. Whereas when Suga gets criticized he gets angry and uses that to force himself further ahead.
Itâs also important to note that despite Suga saying he yells at Jimin, we have a lot of evidence that heâs also really encouraging to him. He wants to write a song just for Jimin, and heâs made various comments about how hard Jimin works and how much they appreciate all his effort. Him yelling is him trying to help. He wants Jimin to be prepared for criticism and be able to move past it like he did. Iâm not saying itâs the right response, but itâs what he feels will help Jimin adjust to the music scene.
I also wanted to point out how stellar Namjoon is as a leader in this interview. He interjects and supports Jiminâs opinion about the yelling, then takes pressure off of Jiminâs embarrassment about his diary by adding that Jin also has one, and then when theyâre talking about V constantly wanting to do his own thing he says that as long as they change it up a bit V can do amazingly. He really carries the conversation and tries to balance the pressure onto the group and not let any one person get too focused on. He works really hard to preserve their image and their feelings.
Anyway, I have a lot of thoughts about this whole interview but this is already waaaay too long. So there. Bangtan does their best to always show us a cohesive and happy unit, but they all have extremely different personalities and they try so freaking hard to be able to show us that image. They struggle with outside pressures, but they also struggle with each other. But thatâs why they work so well together, because theyâre open about their differences and they hash them out. I think theyâve grown a lot together and changed each other for the better and weâre all blessed to be a part of that.
I was messing around on Facebook and I ran into some things that both Matt Fanale of Caustic and Alex Reed of Seeming had mentioned. It had to do with interviews given by music magazines and other online scene sites. Caustic mentioned that a question heâs received is âWhat challenges do you face as a white guy in this genre?â Alex Reed had mentioned some other standard questions that have lost traction over the years. I had mentioned that very one in passing and he agreed that it was one that had lost itâs merit.Â
It got me to thinking about that question in general. Why would that be a taboo question? I have a probable theory in regards to it. In the industrial scene, it seems rather homogeneous: white guys. Sometimes there are bald white guys, but thatâs another running joke for another day. There are women and other PoC in the genre, and Iâm sure the question has come up at one time or another. However, when should it be used if at all?Â
If an artist has a formative experience that pertains to said question, itâs quite possible that the artist will bring it up without significant prompting. On the flipside, if you are interviewing a rather prominent artist that has well documented experiences, you owe it to yourself to look these up and avoid the beaten path. Always do your research, folks. The interviewee will thank you for it.
I feel that you may be able to skate on this premise when interviewing someone thatâs considered relatively new to the game and has gained some notoriety. Even while keeping that in mind, still do your research. Treat each interviewee with respect and do your best to make the interview process as engaging as possible.Â
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I had a good weekend paling around Northhampton (western Mass) with my friend Maria. Went to a concert, enjoyed the relative suburbia of the area ($5 dollar sweatshirt at Walmart say what?) and best of all wasn't at work.
I'm back in my house and now that I have respite from the mountains of anxiety that surrounded by interview with the local university in Cambridge (LOL), I'm painfully aware of what a fucking mess my apartment is. So I guess this weekend will be cleaning up so I don't feel like a failure of an adult.
And oh, on the 10th of November I have a phone interview with a university that all the hipster kids in NYC go to (for some reason feeling like I should be evasive in this post?). I was kinda "just do the best you can do" lady, and then I got an email from the HR hiring manager and it listed the seven people on my PHONE interview and all their titles and I felt anxiety start to bubble up again.Â
So writing this down is my challenge to myself that even though it is my inclination to say I'm gonna be all chill, and let the leaves fall (autumn reference?) where they may be, I *will* get more anxious as the date of another interview approaches. And that it's just how I am, but getting more sleep (instead of none two days before my interview), breathing, preparing*, makes it all a little less daunting
* I've done web research for interviews before and gone over possible questions in my head. But for the interview that I just had last week, I looked over the job ad and I wrote down my thoughts and relevant experience for each tenet of the job interview. And then I also wrote down specific questions for each person that I individually talked to, and then a series of questions for the final interview that was a panel of five people. And OMG, it made me feel so much better. I didn't rely on my notes [though I did glance at them briefly during a break and the panel] but since IÂ both thought and written about the things I wanted to mention, I REMEMBERED them and didn't fumble as much as I usually do. Or start to trip over my words and get all anxious.Lesson learned.
....... i do not have time. if this interview doesn't start soon i'm going to have to call in with a few words. Â Â JUST LITTLE OL' ME BEING PATIENT FOR THIS INTERVIEW BECAUSE I LOVE B5 TURN UP.
