Reply To: A Talk with JoCo, part 1 (Early Years)
I had read them all when I posted what I said, having read them all it made me very hard to comment on anything in these threads due to worrying I would reference something that had not yet come up, thus my lame read too many interviews excuse. I read them pretty much as 1 lump so didn’t really distinguish between them.
I suppose subject matter did change a bit but I think that if JoCo had got a response from other songs he would have gone down that route. So I suppose in a way you are right that where he was lead has shaped him today. However, if we look at his most recent songs, not so geeky. The aftermath is almost devoid of obvious geek content, unless I am forgetting something obvious. So maybe it only made him take a different meander in the path than he would have otherwise, albeit a meander that made him famous. He, I think, is quite capable for catering for his audience in song content as long as it is allowed to contain his usual themes (sick love songs, break up songs, etc) then the rest is pretty free reign to him. He just took it where he saw an audience. An audience is what he was looking for.