'I don’t like crowds and random spectators. I don’t like going to movie theaters or festivals. I just don’t want to get shot randomly. That’s why I stay home a lot.'
“My homie Reed told me that I should ask them for their name,” says Dominic Fike, when I ask how he handles people coming up to him in public, an occurrence that is much more frequent this spring than it was a year ago. In a time that catapults people from briefly tasting fame to being genuinely famous overnight, the 23-year-old musician sits somewhere in the space between.
, but he could also walk through Midtown Manhattan, on a block with both a Sweetgreen and a Chopt, without being recognized., was recorded while Fike was under house arrest on charges of assaulting a police officer. That detail, along with the bidding war following the release of his debut EP that led to his reported $4 million deal with Columbia Records, has added a great deal of allure and mystery to his rise.
Fike’s future, to some degree, terrifies him. “When I’m onstage,” the musician says, “I feel a lot of love. But I don’t like crowds and random spectators. I don’t like going to movie theaters or festivals. I even get freaked out at other people’s shows. I just don’t want to get shot randomly. That’s why I stay home a lot.” And yet, the things that Fike worries about—the fame and the masses and what comes with it—are also the things he clearly wants.
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