Nervous energy gets a negative rep. Somewhere along the line, anxiety was deemed ALL BAD. In actuality, nervous energy is untapped creative fuel. It doesn't always feel good at first, but you can use it to spawn fresh ideas, conversations and creative projects.
The two hours before I go onstage I often feel like dog shit. I am jittery and my brain is an assembly line of useless worries. The green room is cold n' smelly & I sometimes tell myself I don’t have the gusto to keep touring.
But when the time comes to play, all of that nervous energy explodes out on stage. It feels incredible. That nervous energy is my lifeline to keep creating. Some days, I am thankful for my anxiety.
This tune What'd Ya Got to Lose is about taking an "oh well, F it" mentality and just going for it. If you have a good head on your shoulders, you're going to land on your feet. FILMED BY Max Hauser
How do you feel when someone starts playing on their phone while you’re talking to them? It’s a dark moment. It’s a seemingly small, yet significant moment when we realize we’ve got work to do as both individuals, and as a species.
BRETT NEWSKI’s fourth studio album Don’t Let the Bastards Get you Down is a call to arms against whatever destructive forces we may find ourselves battling, from our individual struggles with toxic relationships, low self esteem, loneliness, and apathy to the more global challenges facing us in 2020: The erosion of face-to-face human connection, the breakdown of the proverbial village, the destruction of the planet, and the myriad ways in which our social media addictions amplify these problems. Depression and anxiety are at all time highs, with many, if not most of us, struggling to preserve our optimism.
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