Rising EDM star Nicky Romero yesterday made the frank yet shocking admission that he considers his position as one of the world’s most well known EDM performers as “just a job like any other job, it’s nothing special.”
The declaration is sure to shock fans of Romero who are known to expect nothing less than complete musical fortitude, commitment and love from their EDM favourites.
“I don’t want to disappoint fans but this really is just a job for me, I don’t hold any special love for the music I’m making and playing,” explained Romero, pictured going through the motions. “It really is just a regular job for me, like performing monkey, or mercenary.”
“I don’t even like music all that much,”stated the DJ. “Music is my job, so listening to it when I finish work is very much a bus man’s holiday. It’s like if a bricklayer came home from a hard day of laying bricks to kick back and relax by laying some bricks.”
“I mean come on, I don’t want to be doing this for the rest of my life, how dull would that be,” he asked. “I clock in and clock out the same as anybody else. Once my set is done then I’m rushing back to the hotel room to curl up with a good book, take a hot bath or catch up on a boxset of Downton Abbey or Mr. Selfridge.”
“Right now, I’ve got a large following because I look young and clean,” he continued. “I get that, and I’m willing to trade on it but at the end of the day I’m a professional. I’m here to do a job of work and that means standing in front of a deck with my hands in the air playing…well I guess you’d call it music…for a few hours on the weekend. That’s all there is to it.”
“There’s no passion in it, I might as well be sweeping a street or renting my arse, it’s all just a fair days work for a fair days pay.”
“No one actually likes their job do they?” he asked. “Sometimes when it’s getting to the end of a set I’ll see I’ve only a few minutes left and get really excited and people mistake that for excitement and happiness in my job but really it’s because I’ll be clocking off soon and looking forward to taking a quiet, relaxing shit.”
Romero claimed that the partying lifestyle and adulation is all just a part of the job and something that comes with the territory. “Although it’s not all wild parties,” he claimed, “but sometimes I will be contractually obliged to attend an after party where I’ll glad hand and pose for stage managed photos with fellow EDM stars.”
“Once in a while I might bring a model back to my room to keep my image of a young guy living a hedonistic lifestyle but I don’t enjoy it,” he added. “The sex is always perfunctory, quick and emotionless and I’m glad when it’s over.”
Romero insisted that he can’t see his career continuing indefinitely and that he was hoping he could make enough money over the coming years so that he can retire peacefully.
“My plan is ten years of this, make as much money as I can and then do something really worthwhile with my life like gardening or collecting and fixing up old wheelbarrows, something that will really leave a mark on history, not this EDM shit.”
“The job of a DJ isn’t physically taxing,” concluded Nicky. “But mentally it can be quite a challenge listening to track after track of commercial crap, I’m much more into legitimate musical expression like Yo Gabba Gabba and nursery rhymes. I’m looking forward to a time when I can really explore those bastions of the musical artform.”
