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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I know I'm going to sound cynical, but addicts are incredible liars. We've also seen a lot of celebrities that talk about being clean and sober and happy, but they're still deeply addicted. We only really need to look at Scott Hall, who for a long time purported to be clean and sober and loving life, but we've learned, that he never really stopped drinking.
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I should listen to the interview before posting but I do know that in the music industry it's very common now for artists to speak to playing shows sober more in terms of immediate sobriety during the show.
Blink 182 and many other major bands have spoken to the difference between the old days and now. In the old days bands would be ripped and stoned and charging $10-$30 a ticket and it was seen as rock and roll to be wasted while playing. Things changed to the point where a major rock band had to put on a major show each night, that required being hydrated, alert and rested to pull off, more like an athlete than an old school rockstar.
You could no longer be a drugged out, drunk artist in front of 15000 people paying $50-$200 a seat and expecting a 2 hour plus arena show. Taylor may have been alluding to not being drunk or high while performing rather than his private, off show battle with opioids and painkillers.