Different topic.
I wanted to bring this article about Avicii's illness and death over.
While the headline may be eye-catching, the article is certainly very level headed and does not easily put blame to just one side or the other.
What overall becomes apparent is the constant pressure to produce, stay on top, make more money, be more famous, takes a heavy toll on the artist who spearheads such a money and music making machine.
Reading through all these Elvis comeback 68 posts on here, it occurred to me that Elvis may have also had to - at some point - walk away from it all. I always thought of Elvis' enlistment with the army and being stationed in Germany a huge waste of a top talent in the US. Until now, it had never occurred to me, that maybe that was just what he needed to do to get away from all the crazy, be for a moment nothing special, but just a common soldier like anyone else, even though of course he could never totally be that anymore. But still, he certainly dialed back everything he could with his enlistment.
Adam has never experienced this totally insane level of fame, but when I read something like Avicii's story, it makes me think about our wishes for Adam to be more famous, more successful, more engaged, and on every award show, or that we seem to treat every non-invitation on an award show as a personal slight against him, which imo is nothing more than speculation anyhow. Who knows what their reasoning is for what they do, or what the reasoning of a certain journalist is, who happens to write about Nate, but not Adam. In such an opinion based industry, you also need to let the chips fall where they may, imo.
Adam gets lucky breaks one minute, and finds a door slammed in his face or at least shut the next, but he is certainly having a wonderful and great career, overall, without it being this total insanity. If Adam can have a great career and still strike a balance that makes him have a happy life, then that is all I could possibly ask for for him.
As fans, I think, we need to a) respect his career decisions and not demand or tell him what he can or cannot do, and b) jubilate, enjoy, tell everyone about it, etc, each in our own personal style. But if we always want to push for more, I think this article is a good reminder to maybe take a step back from the ledge.
Just my opinion, as always.
ETA:
Wow, look at Adam's latest Instagram. About balance between career and private life....