![]() ![]() We talked about the album, but more about what it’s like to be Moby in 2013-to know governors and senators, to return home for your high school reunion, and to receive a creative pep talk from David Lynch as you near your fifth decade of being alive. He’s also fastidiously productive, having recently released Innocents, his fourth album since 2008 that, without getting into it too much, sounds as good as anything he’s done since becoming popular. He is powerfully aware that he sounds like Moby. This must be strange for a former punk rocker who admittedly grew up “poor white trash.” He’ll attempt to disarm the dynamic by offering to make me tea the moment I sit down, and by occasionally preceding a statement with a self-aware caveat meant to pre-empt the dismissive reaction (“Wow, that sounds like Moby”) to some of the things he says. We sit in his apartment, which is a living monument to his success-it was featured on MTV Cribs, after all-and is nice enough to immediately remind me that he is a Famous Person. He was a public vegan, and became the type of pop culture entity who could make a Funny or Die cameo hilarious through the simple act of appearing to parody himself. He was a stand-in for the rise of techno and an unwilling foil for Eminem, an unlikely celebrity who dated Natalie Portman and provided the leitmotif for the Bourne movies. But Moby, nee Richard Melville Hall, has spent nearly 15 years as a pop culture phenomenon whose existence and success meant something other than itself. This is not always true of all celebrities-I would bet within an inch of my life that certain editors of this website have thought longer and harder about Drake than Aubrey Graham ever will. It’s fatuous to say that nobody knows about being Moby more than Moby- obviously-but perhaps less fatuous to say that perhaps nobody has thought more about what it means to be Moby than the man himself.
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