Joe Keery Opens Up About His New Album, Stranger Things, & More In New Interview

Joe Keery caught up with The Daily Beast while out promoting his new album, DECIDE. The actor/singer opened up about his new creation while also balancing his growing acting resume. Highlights from his interview are below.

On fans’ obsession with his hair from Stranger Things: “It’s really ridiculous. It’s not something I have control over. It’s just internet fodder that’s carried over and is now attached to me. I can’t really knock it. I have a career, so I have to be like, ‘Who cares? I’ll take it.’ But it’s also not something I care about at all. Still, people seem to really care about it and fixate on it, for whatever reason. It’s so stupid, honestly.”

On how he sees growing up: “You think about your life in different eras, I guess. It’s easy to define them by location, for me. I think about my time in Boston as a kid. I think about my time in Chicago as a young man. And then I think about my time in Atlanta, starting professional life. I feel like the thing that took me a long time to realize is it’s not like you’re a kid and you grow up. You’re always growing up. You’re always changing.”

On how acting and making music differ: “You do the acting stuff and you’re a small piece of a large puzzle. You get to release some control. While that bar is being depleted, the music bar is filling up on the other side. It’s like, ‘Okay, I want to do this now, have full control and take this into my own hands and see it through all the way, and figure it out.’ So they do feed off each other.”

You can check out even more from his interview here. DECIDE will be available for download on September 16.