Pokáč: No Marriage Proposals From Fans – Singer Reveals All

I don’t have a clear answer to this question, but it occurs to me that I make even more mistakes when writing songs for children than when I write for adults. Some animals often appear in the texts, they are more rhyme-like, relaxed. I also successfully tested them on my sons, which I don’t do otherwise.

Rather, it happened that some appealed to them more and others less. Not that I wouldn’t be able to stand it, though. This happens to my wife. I often come across this in my work.

On the other hand, if the song goes well with her, people usually like it too. My wife Eliška is the prototype of an independent listener who doesn’t decide whether there is an interesting sequence of chords in a song, but only whether she likes it or not.

It was definitely not the plan. On the contrary, when one of my favorite musicians gave birth to children and started writing songs for them, I found it annoying and told myself that I would never do that.

Since all my songs are a kind of diary of my life, it also includes the fact that I live in a time when I have small children. They are happy to have me, I am happy to have them, and that’s how it showed in my work.

In addition, I coincidentally had the idea last year that I would really like my next album to be different from the previous ones. I considered whether it would be metal, pop or country, but in the end it made the most sense that it would be full of children’s songs.

It is true that more children went to my concerts than to the concerts of other singers and bands. At the same time, I composed my songs almost purposefully for my peers and for myself. Children probably found their way to them because they are musically and lyrically playful and because they understand them.

I used to have, and still have, a problem sometimes that as a listener I don’t understand what the songs are singing about. They are sonorous, melodic, pleasant, but I don’t understand what they are about. But over time I found out that it’s not just my problem. When I started asking the people around me what the pop song they just played on the radio was about, they couldn’t answer me.

And so it was always important to me that all my songs were clear in content. That’s why the lyrics in them rhyme nicely, and even though I’m sometimes criticized for it, I like it so much. I like catchy tunes anyway, although there are many people who perceive the word catchy as dirty.

I don’t force anyone to find a complicated way to my songs. I’m happy if they catch your eye on the first listen.

When a singer begins, he enjoys every moment of being seen or heard. He wishes there were as many such moments as possible. At the same time, if he sees a colleague of his who appears in the media all the time and in all of them, it creeps up his neck. And then he realizes that it could happen to him too, and he could get on someone’s nerves, and he takes precautions.

So although it is said in our industry that when self-promotion is already creeping up our necks, it means that people are just starting to learn about us, it is necessary to keep it in the norm. A while back I was putting out a music video every two months and working with pretty much anyone who asked.

It’s different now, because I’ve probably moved from the stage of being a budding musician to the stage where I consider every step I take. So I systematically work to make sure that I am not on the air too much and that every entry I make is worth something.

The other day in a coffee shop, a lady I didn’t know before told me that there’s no need to spout songs. And I took it to heart. I don’t step into it the way I used to. Actually, also because I have children who won’t be small forever and I won’t be interested in them forever either. I want to be with them, raise them and enjoy them.

When I talk to people after my concerts, they often tell me that we live in a time where those who are eccentric and extreme are generally seen as more interesting than those who are not. But they like me precisely because of my civility. They tell me that I seem to them like their friend from school or from the neighborhood, who puts stories from everyday life into songs, including theirs. It could be because of that.

Besides, I’ve been writing and singing my songs for years before people even knew there was a Pokác. It didn’t work for me for a long time, I reaped failure for a long time and the response was scant. But I continued to work and dreamed that one day it would be at least half the way it is today.

However, these are only my assumptions. All I know for sure is that I am grateful for it all.

Although it was one of the things I hoped for at the beginning of my music career, I have to say that to this day I have signed more men’s breasts than women’s. It’s probably the fate of a boy who entertains people, and therefore is mainly interested in boys who also try to have fun.

In short, it has never happened to me that I received a marriage proposal from a female fan or that a bra flew onto the stage. But I still found my wife, so everything is fine.

There will be seating only, with the exception of the so-called steam rooms, which will be in the front near the stage. But they are already sold out. And it won’t just be a concert. It will be an audiovisual experience with a story. I believe that it will be an intense experience for children and their parents. The launch of the album Sheep on the sofa will also be part of it.