The questions you ask, how you word them and your delivery sets the table for the range of likely responses.
Your questions don’t get better by making them longer.
Before you start the interview know what the interview is is for…is it to be informative, entertaining, inspiring, controversial, affirming, promotional?
How might an interview with you be fitting in to the artist’s overall career and agenda?
If you don’t like the music, there are lots of ways to still be positive and encouraging without saying that you like the music.
You are the guide, let the artist be the hero.
A good question isn’t necessarily a question that stumps the artist. A good question isn’t necessarily a softball for the artist. A good question opens the door for an artist to go somewhere they have energy and excitement for…and is often a little unexpected.
If you want to be the type of interviewer who asks how they got the band name, it’s not the worst question in the world but there are already plenty of other people already asking that. Why not try something else?
