Annik's sensitivity to her subject is excellent. She allows David Byrne the space to speak freely and with a childlike candor and innocence that is facinating. His insights and perspectives unhindered and facinating.
I feel the exact same way! It makes me think that if people can like David and think he's cute, then they can think the same way about me! In fact, David is the only reason why I started being myself and not a fake annoying extroverted class clown.
@@talkinglegs9606 same here. I see myself in his way of talking or reacting to other people. And that he has transformed his special way of being in an important part of pop culture is so inspiring. I trust in being myself a lot more now
@@talkinglegs9606 That's scarily relatable to me. Sometimes we just need a role model who isn't afraid to be themselves, (especially if we have the same personality) which can encourage us to be ourselves.
I love his voice and i love everything he has to say, it always comforts me knowing there's someone like David Bynre who sees the weirdness of things and questions evrything and talks about things so inteligently
I always believe in questioning things, something which has been lost, I think, because since the days of Thatcher and Reagan people have neither been taught or encouraged to question things, because the politicians both at the time of Thatcher and Reagan and afterwards consider intelligent and questioning people as a threat to them. All that means is that these politicians, who we were always encouraged to believe were some of the greatest thinkers of our time, and some of the greatest politicians both then and amongst the ones who went before them, is that they were not very intelligent politicians themselves, which is why they were so eager to place everything in the hands of those who paid them the most to support the greediest and most evil policies in the history of politics in the world.
In all fairness, this was relatively early on in his career (he started singing with the talking heads when he was just 22 years old). It had been 7 years in his career so far at that point.
MrDave 777 because on stage you see the real David Byrne. He likes to be seen singing and dancing and expressing himself freely the way he wants and he needs it.He is not uncomfortable with people when doing so because nobody judges him in these moments. An interview is more intimate and requires you to react directly to someone and it s intimidating for someone with poor social skills. Still this guy is a real gentleman
Boss Tanaka I wanted to say you composed a terrific response! Thank you! You worded that perfectly! Their live concert SMS is a masterpiece! I haven’t listened or watched in over a week yet find myself singing bits of songs from that concert throughout the day! When music does that, the artists are on to something! I have a difficult time listening to TH studio albums! I had their greatest hits and liked just a few songs! With that said, SMS took a lot of those songs, perfected them. AND all the artists were at their musical peak! “They’ve enlisted all their family, they’ve enlisted all their friends...”. Another bit I can’t get out of my head!
I think it is amazing that so many people who have similar types of mental illness to the one David Byrne has, turn out to be some of the most artistic people around. I can understand why people such as David Byrne can feel more at home on the stage, a place where you would think they would be their most uncomfortable because they are exposed to hundreds and thousands of people looking at them and possibly judging them. However, that is not what occurs to you when you are on stage, because you can sort of pretend to be someone else while you are on stage, and you can forget your troubles when you on stage,, because you have to concentrate when on stage. So, being on stage can be a form of distraction, something which is very important for people with similar mental illnesses to the Asperger's that David Byrne has, and to people who have depression and anxiety. In my opinion, I think David Byrne and Talking Heads are some of the most iconic people and bands in my lifetime who have been responsible for some of the most iconic songs and lyrics of my lifetime.
There is so much Aspergers going on here. I support a few young men who are exactly like David in this interview. I really gives me hope for their futures.
I love his voice and strange accent...American-Canadian-Scottish (he moved to the United States/Canada at a very young age) with a hint of a Scottish lilt. Very soft spoken and sweet.
He was so awkward then but now he's much more comfortable and confident speaking, I wonder how he overcame that cause that's something I'm still trying to figure out. He's so cute and soft spoken in these older interviews
He says that performing over the years made him more comfortable with social interactions. Music/art often does have that affect with people on the spectrum, myself included.
Time! I used to speak exactly like him on this video a few years ago and then received my diagnosis and some tips on how to socialise and also followed sign language classes (for nonverbal communication). I also went to art school and leading critiques really helped. I still behave like this in unfamiliar situations but as you grow used to things around you you'll grow more comfortable and more knowledgeable of the codes of the world. To each their own pace! :)
This man and his band provided the score for much of my young adult life, maybe late adolescence too. Much of that score still resonates today. It makes me smile that I learned only a few years ago about his place further along the spectrum than many. How obvious it once we've been told. The music is extraordinary. The lyrics and their delivery are sublime. I never saw TH live, bit managed to see DB with a band at Eastnor, UK, about a decade ago. Just as good as I hoped he might be. Lots of TH tracks and even one piece from Bush of Ghosts. A maestro.
I've been listening to TH/DB for over 30 years now and everything makes sense. He's quite a tricky metaphorical poet. Deserves a Nobel Prize, in my opinion.
I always knew David was a little bit off you could see it in his work. That's why I love his work makes me feel sane because I've also always been considered a little bit off. He is so different from his later interviews when he's much older.
I’d love to sit down and talk with him- His tone is comforting and we have similar manners of speech and thinking, it would be nice to have a conversation without any filter of our weirdness. And I do in fact have Asperger’s, and I have quite bizarre interests- I’d like to tell him of all the interesting art I find and study !
I think it's difficult for extroverts to understand how difficult an interview like this is for an extreme introvert, even if they don't have Autism. It takes a lot of time and practice to become good at it, but it still isn't comfortable, no matter how good you seem on the outside. He has done very well at performing during interviews as he has gotten older, but I am sure they are still very difficult for him.
Well to be fair, he was/is very well known to be socially awkward, anxious, and painfully shy (especially in older interviews) so he’s probably speaking like that as a coping mechanism.
Stop Making Sense was recorded in mid December 1983, and Talking Heads were busy touring the US from August until early 1984 with no shows in other countries, so this (recorded in Belgium) would have been from either before August or a period during the tour where they didn't have many shows, possibly November. I'm guessing it's from around June though
Apparently that happened a lot and was one of the reasons the band broke up unamicably. I can imagine that Tina, as strangely as she’s reflected on it in some of her statements, carried resentment for feeling like she had to mother him to make gigs work. And you can understand why-women especially-would be drawn to feel that way, although not a good behavior.
@@electricfishfan7159 yeah it’s a terrible reality. I’m diagnosed autistic too, but I’m very lucky to have a somewhat ‘normal’ outward expression. I can’t imagine how horrible it feels to be someone on the spectrum who has an expression similar to David Byrne and just getting babied all the time.
I think he definitely leaned into it for comedic effect as you can see in his self-interview and his stage presence. I do the same thing, and so do a lot of comedians and people in anxious moments. Brian Eno attested once that David was mostly like this all the time, even while being mugged, for what that’s worth.
I think most people don't understand that people who are on the spectrum may act like what you see in the interview but when you get them to do something they are very passionate or obsessed about whether music, a certain hobby, sport etc..they can perform all of these confidently with no hint of nervousness because they are so into their world that they could care less about the audience or spectators. I probably didn't explain it well here, lol
the artists experience of the crowd vs the camera spotlighting him to boil down his soul to conversation or a medium of expressing himself in which abstract creativity is crippled
Hey Byrnism. What got you started in your love for David? How many years? If you could mention the epitome of a TH song. What is it? Thanks for all the content!
So either all of you who keeps talking about what drugs he's on are either too stoned yourself to observe the absence of behaviors associated with these drugs or you know nothing about these drugs.
