WEBVTT 00:00:00.332 --> 00:00:02.898 This is a video about platform shoes. 00:00:04.624 --> 00:00:05.871 Among other things as well, but 00:00:06.531 --> 00:00:07.585 mostly about platform shoes. 00:00:10.257 --> 00:00:11.952 For as long as I've been creative, 00:00:11.988 --> 00:00:13.035 I've been fearful. 00:00:13.685 --> 00:00:14.605 Fearful of rejection, 00:00:15.638 --> 00:00:16.784 fearful of failure, 00:00:18.374 --> 00:00:20.085 fearful of 'who does this kid think he is'. 00:00:21.289 --> 00:00:21.996 But a year ago, 00:00:22.706 --> 00:00:24.087 I signed my record deal 00:00:24.087 --> 00:00:26.721 and I thought I was going to wake up one morning 00:00:26.721 --> 00:00:29.894 and all of a sudden, be the dopest person on the planet, 00:00:29.894 --> 00:00:31.892 with sick style and incredible music. 00:00:32.702 --> 00:00:35.864 I realized soon after that it was not going to be that easy. 00:00:37.774 --> 00:00:39.469 I realized that the art that I appreciate 00:00:39.469 --> 00:00:40.961 and the people I appreciate 00:00:41.101 --> 00:00:43.148 are not just your average person walking down the street. 00:00:44.448 --> 00:00:46.732 You could take away their money and take away their fame, 00:00:46.732 --> 00:00:48.896 and they would cut up a garbage bag 00:00:48.896 --> 00:00:51.633 and be wearing it like it just came off the runway in Paris. 00:00:53.477 --> 00:00:56.065 They'd still be doing that thing that is just left of center 00:00:56.065 --> 00:00:58.229 that you either love or you hate, 00:00:58.229 --> 00:01:01.189 but to be frank, they don't give a fuck what you think. 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:05.141 Art is risk. 00:01:08.341 --> 00:01:10.806 Upon realizing this it's been an interesting journey. 00:01:11.366 --> 00:01:15.893 I'm on the path to being a person that I'm equally terrified by and obssessed with. 00:01:16.893 --> 00:01:17.591 My true self. 00:01:18.681 --> 00:01:21.178 I realize that if I wanted to make cool shit, 00:01:21.358 --> 00:01:22.969 I had to make cool shit. 00:01:23.669 --> 00:01:26.993 If that cool shit was letting myself scream into a microphone 00:01:26.993 --> 00:01:30.010 in a room full of people looking like a complete idiot, 00:01:30.010 --> 00:01:32.696 because I know that it's gonna sound amazing on the final track, 00:01:32.696 --> 00:01:33.740 it's about doing that. 00:01:35.060 --> 00:01:36.362 But this doesn't only apply to me. 00:01:36.692 --> 00:01:38.303 If it means taking rad photos 00:01:38.303 --> 00:01:40.388 that your friends are gonna condescendingly call 00:01:40.388 --> 00:01:41.509 'so tumblr', 00:01:41.509 --> 00:01:42.926 it's about doing that. 00:01:44.089 --> 00:01:45.992 If it's about singing at the top of your lungs 00:01:45.992 --> 00:01:47.220 when you're tone deaf, 00:01:47.220 --> 00:01:48.155 it's about doing that. 00:01:49.185 --> 00:01:50.608 If it's about showing off your ass 00:01:50.608 --> 00:01:51.983 because you know it's cute, 00:01:52.173 --> 00:01:53.672 even though you might get called a slut, 00:01:54.172 --> 00:01:54.738 it's doing that. 00:01:56.018 --> 00:01:58.673 If it's wearing something that you probably can't pull off 00:01:58.673 --> 00:02:00.976 like women's platform converse shoes, 00:02:00.976 --> 00:02:03.276 when you're a 19 year-old man, 00:02:03.276 --> 00:02:04.221 it's about doing that. 00:02:05.681 --> 00:02:06.491 Whatever it is, 00:02:07.101 --> 00:02:08.066 I urge you to do it. 00:02:09.126 --> 00:02:10.514 Don't let people stifle you 00:02:10.514 --> 00:02:11.867 because you're doing the shit 00:02:11.867 --> 00:02:13.572 that they have always been too scared to do. 00:02:14.852 --> 00:02:15.954 Love your body, 00:02:15.954 --> 00:02:17.520 let your mind wonder, 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:20.287 and let yourself be the person that you've secretly always wanted to be. 00:02:21.797 --> 00:02:23.248 Life isn't about finding yourself. 00:02:23.838 --> 00:02:25.254 It is about creating yourself. 00:02:26.724 --> 00:02:27.828 I love you guys so much 00:02:27.828 --> 00:02:29.477 and I'll see you all next week.