A career in music demands commitment. You can limp along for a while and justify the daily grind as the thing that allows you to do what you love, but eventually you need to jump in with both feet. Half self-help video, half music video, that’s what Tyler Guest (BROTHERS) is getting at with “All In.”
Of course, that maxim can be applied to all aspects of life in one way or another. As the video says: “There are some games that you don’t get to play unless you’re all in. The other thing that’s so interesting about being alive is that you’re all in – this is going to kill you. […] So I think you may as well play the most magnificent game you can while you’re waiting. Do you have anything better to do?”
“Man I’ve been chasing ideals my entire life,” explains Guest. “There’s pressure in the context of my family to be better than I am. I slumped into a shitty cycle of addiction after travelling around after high school. Since then, the battle has been an angry one. I, as an individual, am constantly pinging back and fourth between what I want to be, and what I don’t want to be. You can see that clearly in the video as I’m struggling to reach another version of me; a subjectively better version of me.
At the end of the day what brought me to this was the ever lasting reach for an ideal that I don’t even know exists. But even if it doesn’t, I have to always promise myself to commit. No fucking around. I’m all in – just like you, and everybody else with a heartbeat.”
At the risk of sounding like some television dad from the ’50s, get out there and make something of yourself. You’ve only got one shot at this.
“All In” will be appearing on GUEST’s three song EP Circles , which is expected out sometime later this Fall.