OOOOOH, YES. That is so revealing. She seems to constantly feel the need to assure us that none of it's conscious and she's not putting on an act etc etc, but all that does is tell us that everything that happens onstage for her comes from an entirely real place. And it's like when Jamie said it seemed like she was performing when she was OFFstage - like that's where she's deliberate about her actions.
God, I wish someone would ask those questions now, it would be so fascinating. But it seems like most interviewers aren't actual FANS so they don't have the awareness - either that the sexual tension was ever there, or that it's gone now.
Also, that interview sort of implies that they used to behave that way even offstage, doesn't it? Because Alison says they play the songs onstage as if it's just the two of them in the room they write/play in. And it sounds like she's saying they didn't realise it seemed weird or sexual, at first - as though it was only when they started PERFORMING that way and people started reacting that they became aware of it.
But then, like you said, she says that onstage she can't control any of that stuff, as though offstage it's different? I DON'T UNDERSTAND. I can't really wrap my head around the idea of them behaving that way when it's just the two of them, because it does seem like the audience is important somehow, like it gives them an excuse almost - they can pretend it's part of the show, and neither of them are going to stop the other one and be like "wait, should we be doing this?" Buuuut it is weird that instead of treating it like an excuse and being like "I'm just playing a character onstage and none of it's real and it's all a performance" etc, they actually say outright that that's when they're most honest.
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God, I wish someone would ask those questions now, it would be so fascinating. But it seems like most interviewers aren't actual FANS so they don't have the awareness - either that the sexual tension was ever there, or that it's gone now.
Also, that interview sort of implies that they used to behave that way even offstage, doesn't it? Because Alison says they play the songs onstage as if it's just the two of them in the room they write/play in. And it sounds like she's saying they didn't realise it seemed weird or sexual, at first - as though it was only when they started PERFORMING that way and people started reacting that they became aware of it.
But then, like you said, she says that onstage she can't control any of that stuff, as though offstage it's different? I DON'T UNDERSTAND. I can't really wrap my head around the idea of them behaving that way when it's just the two of them, because it does seem like the audience is important somehow, like it gives them an excuse almost - they can pretend it's part of the show, and neither of them are going to stop the other one and be like "wait, should we be doing this?" Buuuut it is weird that instead of treating it like an excuse and being like "I'm just playing a character onstage and none of it's real and it's all a performance" etc, they actually say outright that that's when they're most honest.
I JUST DO NOT GET THEM AT ALL.