Would it be better for him politically or for monetary reasons just to get up and sing? Sure. I know that rubbed some fans the wrong way-but that’s one of the things I appreciate. “Dave was doing this live-stream concert, and he just called it shameful. “I was thinking back to after George Floyd was killed,” the USA Today columnist Suzette Hackney tells me.
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Plus he’s never been afraid to risk alienating some of the folks under his big tent when it comes to things that actually matter. Especially since Matthews is ultimately more of a brooding bohemian than anything else. Most of the time, though, if someone tells you they don’t like Dave Matthews, they’re really voicing a deep tribal aversion to the type of person they picture when they picture a Dave Matthews fan-spiritually incurious trustafarians, pumpkin-spice basics, fleece-vest IPA bros, or whichever straw-man stereotype offends their imagination most.īut it’s as unfair to judge Matthews himself by the perceived predilections of his audience as it is to judge David Lynch by the most insufferable dorks at a midnight Inland Empire screening. A lot of it has to do with Dave Matthews himself, an acquired-taste vocalist even in those moments when the words fall away and he’s keening into the mystic without losing the common-man touch of the college-town bartender he used to be, when he becomes the American Peter Gabriel, or more to the point Peter Gabriel if Peter Gabriel were also somehow Lloyd Dobler, a schlub beatified by the very ordinariness of his longing. Some of that hate has to do with aesthetics-either you’re down with DMB’s amalgamation of soul-stirring Joshua Tree anthem rock and smooth jazz and bluegrass-fiddle hoedown and hacky-sack funk or you aren’t. Of the varyingly extemporaneous guitar-based rock groups that emerged in the ’90s to fill the cultural gap left by the decline of the Grateful Dead-I won’t say “jam bands,” because the term annoys Dave, a person I liked from the moment I met him, for the record-they’re far and away the most successful, and maybe also the most loathed.
“I wanted to call my mom but they were asleep in Korea time so I had to wait a few hours until she was awake.The first five Dave Matthews Band studio albums have all been certified multiplatinum and the last seven have either reached the number one spot on the Billboard 200 or debuted there. “When my manager told me, I just broke down,” Kim says. She attended the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles, and soon she began attending auditions all while waiting tables at a restaurant to support herself.Įnter XO, Kitty, her first major project, and one she never thought she’d get. Numerous battles with her family and a pact with her mom later, Kim received permission to pursue her passion of performing as a career. “I just Googled for an audition near me and I found the audition for the community musical theater.” I’m gonna go back to my original passion,’” Kim says. “I was like ‘Okay, I’m going to find something to do for myself. However, when she felt lost and stuck amidst an unhappy relationship, she began questioning herself: “What am I doing to be happy?” she wondered.
Fun fact: her IRL brother is her XO, Kitty costar Sang Heon Lee, who plays Min Ho.Įven though she had loved the arts for as long as she could remember, Kim followed her parents wishes and worked a 9 to 5 job after graduating college. Gia Kim was also raised in a conservative Korean family, one that valued higher education and a traditional career path. Growing up in a multicultural environment, she spent her early years in both South Korea and China, where she attended an international school. It turns out Kim’s own childhood shares many similarities with Yuri’s. Related: Netflix’s “XO, Kitty” Cast: Meet the Characters and Who Plays ThemĪs Kim gradually overcomes her nerves during our interview, she reveals why Yuri is a character she treasures and holds close to her heart.
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