How The Music Industry Broke My Spirit
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- Опубліковано 15 кві 2023
- In this video I talk about my experience trying to make it in music and the toll it took on my mental well-being and sense of optimism.
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Damn I know exactly what you’re talking about, I could’ve made this video lol. I’m going through the early stage you went through, I’m 21. I’ve been kinda isolating myself and making art of all kinds but a lot of music mostly. It’s funny because the more you make, the harder it gets. Little by little all of your illusions shatter. After like 3 years I can finally make a song that’s produced, mixed & mastered and listenable. I’m still not even remotely where I’d like to be with my music but I’m proud of a lot of the stuff I’ve made. If you’re doing music alone, it’s the hardest art form by far
Well, at 21 you have a lot of cause for optimism, and so do I at 30 tbh. It's not like I'm 90. But yeah if I could be 21 again I would definitely try to enjoy it more, because in retrospect it should have been easier to see the funnier side of it back then. Of course as time goes on it gets more pressurised, but if I were you I'd try and be really financially savvy and find other ways to make money and just enjoy music as much as possible and really focus on making great stuff without pressure or fear. And then in a few years it's still not where you want it to be you can try and think of another way around it. But I regret the short-term approach I took when I was younger, I wish I'd thought more about my day jobs/savings/future etc. It would have made the creative part less stressful and actually given me more time and energy to work on what I loved doing. Whereas instead everything felt like a mad disaster all the time and caused a lot of stress. You can't get that time back. Don't get locked into tunnel vision like I did.
Hang in there, don't change. Its a tough road but you are on the right path. I'm 45 now and have felt this way since forever. Don't join the masses. Be yourself even tho you will get shit. Your doing it the right way. Stuff thoes robots 👊🏻
Me and you are the same person
Great album on bandcamp. I took the best quality version for free. Thank you. Its a banger of an album. I don't like therapists either. Most have not been through what I have and just cannot relate. Peace and knowledge ✌. Keep doing what u do. Its original and quality 👊🏻
Thanks dude, I really appreciate that. And likewise!
1 min in i worked in the film industry mainly full of low lifes to be honest im actually going back to uni to study it anyway ill kep watching and see where the video goes
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Listening to some of your videos which I came across recently, it sounds to me like you have an obsessive personality. We have a guy who's currently become obsessed with getting into the celebrity fitness industry. He's desperate to get the phone number of one particular executive.
😂Took a couple days but i watched the whole vid n i think now i got to listen to ur music wats ur spotify or where ever u release
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@@BigDome1 thank u i must say imma honest guy if ur music aint it ill tell u by commenting this aint it😁
@@AstroXBnb ok lol thank you 😂
no one in the last 20 years has made music for money. the only way you can do so is to play covers of the rolling stones to old people in a bar in spain. music is manafactured because real music causes people to rebel against establishment. they cant have what happened in the 60s to happen again as it casued economic collapse as people stopped going to work
I agree there's fuck all money in it but there are other measures of success. And it's still possible to have a career making alternative music, a lot of people do it. Most of the time they are essentially paying to play but there is still room to manoeuvre and make things happen.
I think about 15 years ago, in the early days of MySpace and smaller, independent blogs (as opposed to the conglomerate owned ones now that only market themselves as independent) there was something resembling a genuine kind of meritocracy in music or at least some amount of unpredictability. Gradually there has been more and more label/establishment activity behind the scenes to the point where industry plants are much more common than their genuinely organic counterparts. I can think of very few artists whose success has seemed organic in recent years. There's a pretty depressing homogeny to the stuff that's around now, especially ideologically. It's basically all the same in terms of the message and ideals, even if they random mish-mash of recycled genres is slightly different every time.
@@BigDome1 in my opinion success is what it means to you, its good for music in a way because it not dioverts back to being an art like in the times of bards. play for yourself, write a sonet about a loved one. thats true music. trying to gain money from your art diminishes it from being credible
@@BigDome1 also we are living in an 1980s time frame again, next up is the 90s so could be fun
@@ricwhite612 I'm not interested in making money from it, I've never particularly cared about that. Of course it would be nice but above all I want to impact/influence people on a much larger scale than I currently do. That's always been the primary goal in releasing things. If I wanted to make money I would have done something else. But success and money tend to go hand in hand regardless, and feed into one another.