Thank you for including my songs "Debriefing" & "Gavroche" in this video! I've loved & learned from all your videos so far, so I'm honored. To whoever is reading this - wherever you are in life - as long as you're here there's time. Though this world will often disappoint us in as a many ways as it can with it's arbitrary distribution of both good fortune and horror, it can also be a canvas for the most amazing possibilities. Until you draw your last breath, do not give up on yourself. Trust your process. Trust your vision. Great video, again. Much needed advice as I'm balancing the acceptance of these truths, and a hastier subconscious version of me trying to deny them.
As someone who is 34 turning 35 this year, I spent years go into circles about my writing and comedy. I spent years listening to family and friends about “ getting a real job” and “ art doesn’t pay the bills” only to eventually tuning that noise out. I want to share a perspective with artists who may in the comments older. Although you are pursuing art at an age that’s not “ celebrated “ look at it as how much incredible experience you’ve gained. So many people wish they have life experiences to create from. I thank God I didn’t pursue standup at a young age bc I wouldn’t have shit to talk about. Now in my mid 30s, I have endless material to write jokes. You have time and you’re not too old to do anything.
thats the importance about creation. some A&R that has never created a day in his life is going to be the one that tells you to stop at 35? but God gave you the gift and the means to express it, so you do it. You dont tell a painter to stop painting at 75. You dont tell an actor to stop acting at 60. You dont tell a pianist to stop playing at 30. a novelist to stop writing at 50... so its miserably misguided to tell an artist, whether you sing or rap(which i now just call vocalists) to stop creating art. if you put the time into your project and it sounds incredible, the world will recognize it and appreciate it.
I didn’t write an original song into I was 30 years old. Now I’m playing in a band, composing for film and making my own music on the side. I’m 33 and still rising!
That's amazing! And very inspiring to hear. What made you finally start creating? Im 30 and ive played guitar most of my life at this point, and i love to be creative but my ideas never go further than a voice memo on my phone. I always felt uncapable of making music for real, even if i know that's not true. Instead of creating i obsess about improving my playing, which is kinda useless considering i'm just playing by myself and know no other musicians lol.
@@menamgamg i think at some point i gave up on being “good enough” and just focused on recording my ideas. It’s all very rough and has plenty of flaws but i just try to remember that none of that matters and to just write for me. I know you have it in you as well and as long as the song is meaningful to you then it doesn’t matter what other people think of it
@@mattymcfabb Thank you. I think perfectionism is definitely a problem for me and i always keep moving the goalpost of what good enough is. I'm aware that this behavior is a form of avoidance because I'm afraid of creating for some reason, but i don't know why i have that fear honestly and i know it's irrational. Maybe it's the fear that i will find i'm incapable.
I’m 58 now. I’m almost finished my second album. My first one was crap. I’m proud of this one. I doubt anyone will listen to it and that does make me wonder why I bother but creators must create… I’m also a huge Miley Cyris fan!
Just a couple of years behind you, and doing the same. Except I decided not to make an album, I've been using AI assisted video editing software to make lyric videos that I post to UA-cam. Like you, I don't know if anyone will listen to what I putting out there, but I'm loving the process and v happy to be still learning stuff, despite the advancing age!!
@@repeat2fade hey, that’s fantastic! I’ll listen for sure! What is the name of the software you are using. I need to make lyric videos for my songs but I have no clue how to do it :/
Good for you! I just turned 54. Started music when I was in elementary school and played on and off through my 20s. Then life got in the way and I started doing other things. Picked it up again when the pandemic hit and have been writing since then. Fourth single releasing on Dec 8, but I'm mostly interested in writing. I release music to get my name out there, but...the hardest part for me is I don't like promoting myself on social media. I definitely feel like I'm too old for that, especially TikTok. I have a day job, so this isn't a make it or break it thing for me, but it would still be great if one of my fave artists called me up and said "hey, love your music and would love to write with you!" A girl can dream...
Just hitting my 40s still feeling like a 20yr old, I realize the meaning of “it’s never too late”. Especially as a creative, your age DOES NOT translate your creativity. Even in this day in age, if you feel you’re “too old” for certain things, you gotta think that you’re already several steps ahead of your younger counterparts. If you’ve done your homework, then you need to take advantage of that. But with age aside, success in life involves seeing things that others haven’t seen yet.
Thanks for spreading your story and support on the page here. So great to see people resonating with this one, and the positivity that's coming out. Thanks for taking the time.
@@adriannaalba2649 Queen Latifah and MC Lyte are still hailed as queens. Nah, f-that, ‘queen’ gets thrown around to easily these days. They are the goddesses of hip hop. Then you got Lil Kim who paved the way for the queens of that raunchy/ratchet style which I’m personally second to. But in the male-dominated environment of hip hop, yes, the females have to work that much harder to make their mark. We got Nicki who’s prolly the oldest of that Lil Kim style staying relevant. But I honestly prefer to see more of that Latifah/Lyte style come back which I see in the likes of Rapsody, Young MA, and Mumu Fresh. Ultimately, what really matters is putting your heart and soul into your craft and people will see that. It’s terribly sad, especially for females having to “sell” themselves whilst putting their actual talent to the side.
I am a 53 y/o painter drawer sculptor. I can asure you that it would been simply impossible, to create the work i am now creating any sooner. Especially without the past 28 years of searching, reading , researching, getting to understand my subject matter and maturing. Some art can only come to fruition after a long journey.
45 yrs old and back in the game after a 12 yr hiatus from doing original music, and i'm working on the best album i've ever written, all because of the accumulated experiences and maturity. I needed to hear this reassurance.
Same here. I quit at about 33 now I’m 45. I’ve been at it for the last couple years now not at all as much as I should. I have kids and I work seven days a week but little by little.
This video reminded me of a quote from Richard Hamming “For mathematics and physics, the best work is done by the young. It takes raw creativity to identify truths about the universe. For music and novel writing, later in career produces best work. It takes experience to create a masterpiece.”
Thanks for dropping the quote, and glad the video brought it up. I have a friend who teaches maths - I'm going to ask them about this next time I see them. Cheers again for taking the time.
Man I'm not gonna lie. feeling old all the time since the industry likes to highlight super young artists. I've been thinking about it differently lately. but yeah also this video is beautiful bro. love what you do.
I hear ya Trevor. The trick “on the industry side” is to find someone who is coachable, someone who wants to be groomed… someone who will lie and do things that they don’t want in order to become “successful”. When someone is willing to do that, they can be taken advantage of and won’t see it coming and also doesn’t know what to do about it. Industry is manipulation. The lie sold is… you can do it, just let us help… once you are controlled, they can shelf you or drop you or ruin you.. but only on the large scale..
The reason the 'industry' like young talents is because it immediately makes everyone feel useless.. keeps up the 'mysterious virtuouso' marketing schtik. Ironically you don't become a young virtuoso without having some kind of lack luster child hood.. there fore easy to manipulate.
As someone who was on a path to join the "27 Club" well into my 30s, I can tell you that all of this is true. Im almost 49 now, and Ive been through all the addictions, predatory contracts, let downs, and I truly don't beleive my career actually started until I was in my 40s.
Do you have a legitimate mental disorder? Joining the 27 club ends the second you turn 28. I thought that was a given, considering it’s called the 27 CLUB.
Don't we all have mental disorders? I have music placements on thousands upon thousands of television shows, and none of that really started to happen until I was in my fourties and relatively cleaned up. So... it doesn't matter how old you are. You are the result of your choices. @@Ash-j2h4x
I’m 67 and can honestly say that my songs are better than ever….problem is that the rest of the world just don’t care. This however won’t stop me from writing….your indifference is not my problem. I’ve accepted it and look at my creativity as therapy in a world increasingly getting crazier and colder.
37, and it's just me, loop pedal, and a bedroom on guitar. No one else is subjected to it. I suffer my 'art.' it's just meditation, like fasting, breathing, cold showers. It's that flow state of riding bike through a city. Everything is a rhythm. Thanks to all the drummers out there, because I really hear the guitar more as a student of percussion.
Just before I turned 50, I was inspired by Ren to finally record a song I wrote 20 years ago, accepting my scarred vocal chords for what they can do now, instead of waiting for perfection. If The Rolling Stones can release a new album at 80, why can't any other 80 year old release their first album? Hurt was one of Johnny Cash's most powerful songs, not despite his age, but because of the wisdom he brought to Trent Reznor's words.
The strange thing is that music is something you get better at as time goes by. But the music industry (does that even exist?) does not appreciate this. My advice is to do it for yourself as self-fulfillment or as giving yourself personal goals and this will be more rewarding ultimately. Many of the great composers of the past never even got to hear their own music performed. So at least we are lucky in that respect.
I’m about to hit 40 and I just got my first international booking. Which is a dream come true. There were and there are still days where I get down on myself or I don’t get the approval or reaction from the people who are playing my records but I’ve learned lately that if I like the record then that’s all that matters and If I didn’t make anything that I did like then I have to remind myself to keep going.
I'm 62. I recorded and released 13 albums, composed a symphony and two orchestral fantasias, produced over 50 music videos, designed and built my own instrument, toured the US and Europe, composed music for over a dozen independent films, dance companies, and theater groups, and produced my own concerts. I've also written books and my paintings have been in several galleries and openings. Hell, I do entire concerts where I improvise every note of music I play! My music changed A LOT since I started. This is the natural order of things. But I'm as creative as I ever was. I can't turn it off! And after over a half century I have been making music, I feel like I'm just beginning. Does anyone think I should stop making music because I'm in my 60s? Stop me. I dare you to try.
The one thing that I’ve been emphasizing to my friends who are also creative, is when they make a project and they get in a small hole of uncertainty, doubt or resistance. I ask them “are you making this for you or are you making this to be liked?” and usually the general answer is , “I’m making this for me.” and then you follow up with the question “do you like it?” and most the time they say “yes, BUT… “ and that’s where you have to stop them. the moment they say but there’s no need, if you like it, you like it. that’s all that matters, everyone else comes after you.
I hear that. So tough to try and quiet that voice of others in your head when you're working. Thanks for sharing your piece and story on this - it's appreciated.
If you want to have a career and get paid, it’s important to make music that you think others may also like. If it’s just a hobby, then your opinion only matters. But if it’s a career, you do have to try and give people something they can connect with
@@trashyraccoon2615 but you’d still have to have a liking to what you’re making. You can always be considerate of what people might like, but if you’re an artist and you compromise the entirety of the project for others there will be no correlation with what you wanted to make for yourself
I was the local artist’s artist in the band’s band pre-pandemic. We were all in our 20s and then the pandemic happened and we all transitioned to our 30s with everything on hold. Most of the bands who we shared bills with called it quits. My band and the bands I was in fizzled too. Since, I’ve been alone working in creative isolation and I’m starting to figure myself out. I thought it was over for me too now that I was irrelevant by way of a crumbled “era”, but recently art has started making sense and I’ve been creating for and from myself and I’ve never felt so free. It’s a really tough place to get to and through especially with how dark and cynical it it can get. If it's feeling like the end, take a break and your art will come to you when you need it, not when others do.
Honestly I have never seen a generation so obsessed with age like this generation it's weird failing to understand some artists back in the day didn't hit their creative highs until they got older being young is that your your young your still learning & trying to figure yourself out so the music reflects that but when you have Life experience because of age an Artists has plenty to sing or rap about
Im 27 and I thought I would be too old but that's so silly, especially since so many of my favorite artist popped off later in life. I have so much more focus and clarity on what i want to do, that I am kind of glad that I waited.
Im almost 31 and have been working hard on music for 8/9 years now on my own original music. It is not easy. Yet, i feel its something that sort of siphons out those who dont truly love music and makes you really either double down or slow down. Im at the point ive said its music or death. We keep pushing. I appreciate this video
I often like to remind myself that Colonel Sanders was 65 when he (eventually) established the fast food chain KFC, having previously tried many business ventures with varying degrees of success. His 'time' came later in life... As for me? I'm 60! I have never stopped educating myself. With You Tube, the process has been made so much easier! My creative journey is still unfolding.
As an aspiring rapper/music artist myself, I needed to see this video because I have been doubting myself lately because of my slow progress trying to do music and I’m just trying so hard not to let those doubts get into my creativity and my mindset as a songwriter and artist even though I’m only 24 I been putting out music since I was 17
As a creative twice your age, I’ve dealt with those same feelings throughout. Things have definitely changed to allow creatives to be heard. Only if your brave enough to share your creations. Being honest with myself, I’ve personally WASTED so much of my creative life due to FEAR. Time that I’ll never get back. In the end, as long as you create freely from within, and YOU like it… That’s all that truly matters. (Wish I would’ve understood that long ago.) ✊🏾👍🏾✌🏾
i started late 2020 i was 21 and some times i wished i started earlier like 17 perhaphs id gone far but nothing so i started making beats thinking ive started late till i watch a video of a producer from kvxi interview and he said he started two years ago and now his beat is on drake's new album ..... and that got me motivated
This video was exactly what I needed, I was fighting demons. Whispering my most personal insecurities to me. Encouraging/Convincing me to be passive. This video is art and a blessing. Thank you and shalom
Glad this one resonated for you and where you're at with your work right now. Thanks for taking the time to drop in and support in the comments - it's appreciated.
This is awesome. I think we all need tk learn is that not everyone peaks in their late teens and 20s. We as a society need to allow room for those artists who peak later in life to have a stage if they have earned it.
As someone who had folks around me that told me I only had a limited time to do what I love. Thank you for making this video. I don’t think I could ever walk away from making music. It makes me feel so free.
As a musician who played in highschool, gave it up for 10 years and started back at 31, this video echoes a lot of what I've felt. I am a completely different person now and have a much different perspective on music and life. Great video as always!
As a 34 year old artest that hasnt had a release in 10+ years and stumbling onto this channel, what an eye opening piece, thank you for this. I needed to hear this.
I didn't know myself until I hit a bottom at 23. After being sober for 2 years, I have purpose and can reflect. I feel ready to share a perspective and my music shows that now.
I liked this video. Seeing Miley front and center made me not wanna watch at first because though I enjoy her, she’s a nepo baby and got her shot super young. Seeing & hearing about people who got their shots later in life is more inspiring. That’s just my perspective though, thanks for putting this vid together.
Right. It put me off too cause why is this nepo baby who gained her success in her teens being used as an example of “feeling behind in life” in terms of career success? And she’s in the middle of the thumbnail too… Kind of defeats the purpose of this video.
Someone asked me today why I’d waited so long to start in musical theatre. While it’s been painful to (realise how much I) have been cut off from part of myself for decades, I do think taking the long way to find myself has given me a breadth of life experience and perspective. And maybe that maturity adds depth to what I create and how I perform in some way. I really appreciated this video, especially the segment from 5:29 to 5:59. Thank you!
I gave up my dreams at 23 and settled to see music as a 5 minute hobby every Sunday or as much time my job allowed me to. "It will go away, and I will forget those dreams eventually." But the thing is, creative minds cannot be contained, controlled, or have the capability to forget. Our minds are tied to the joy that comes from creating. 20s, 30s, 50s and beyond, music doesn't leave us. Nowadays music is still my hobby; the difference is that I make use of all my free time to do it. The joy of hearing a finished product that I visualized in my mind, overrides the pain of disappointment of those dreams that didn't come true. And we keep creating as life goes on.
When I heard Tonis voice before the cut went to her I realized this was going to be one to sit down and full get a hot drink and be with. Thanks very much for more magick.
I take great comfort in knowing that someday when I am old, even crippled and alone, I still can do something that I love: make music and write lyrics. Just started last year, in the age of 45. People think I am crazy, but I think they just don't know how liberating it feels to be able to create something from the air.
Charles Bukowski has always been one of my biggest inspirations, because he never found success until really late into his life, but he still never gave up
I just turned 34 and have been struggling a lot with this. Making my best work ever for sure. But I’ve been trying to get to a stable point in my career for 15 years and still haven’t. I feel like it may never come and that scares the shit out of me because I’ll I’ve done my whole life is sacrifice and work relentlessly towards this
Progress in your work sounds great but yeah thanks for sharing that more than valid fear there also. It's always good to hear a bit of the story of people watching these videos. Yeah, know it's appreciated, and just glad this one connected.
Man bro I relate to this deeply. I want to really encourage you how I am encouraging myself, to innovate yourself. You’ve mastered music take it beyond music. How many ways can music/the artist evolve? Is the final form of the artist playing and singing? Or is there more? What is the future of the artist? How many ways can you package this to create a shock factor? These days any thing is possible man. You’ve mastered music now Innovate innovate innovate!! We can lead the industry by innovating every thing.
I started recording over 30 years ago on a 4 track tape recorder. Stumbled my way through digital recording over the last 20 years. I recently started using an ai vocal plugin and I'm writing lyrics for the first time in my life. Now I'm re-recording and finishing songs I started on my 4 track. Some of my best work. I'll never stop doing what I love
I'm turning 32 next month and I feel the most artistic I've been in my 13 years of making music. I'm from DC and I felt like all my musical friends were leaving me behind in the begining. They all found success early. After my Mom died 9 years ago, I stopped doing music for 4 years and moved to China. When I first got here, I gave myself some time to just experience everything here in 2016. By the time 2019 came I was ready to start making music again and it was the best decision I ever made. I learned so many new skills, expanding my genres, and feeling more free to make what I wanted. I even started performing live. I learned how to follow my experiences to make my art and let go of the emotions that were holding on to me.
I played sang in a band, wrote and had some decent art design skills in my youth. When our band eventually had life hit us in the face, we all started families and got real jobs. We hadn’t played in 10 years I had almost completely erased the thought of playing music or doing anything art related in anyway. During the pandemic we decided to get back together and go get a legitimate studio recording of the old songs. That opened us all up to playing again and with that came all our life experiences and higher musical knowledge as well as a little more disposable income. I will say I trust myself in my writing abilities more now and I like what I’m writing so much more. As well as I started designing again all our merch and album art by yours truly and I love it. I think all in all there was much more fear in me and my abilities when I was young cause I thought that it meant everything now I know it doesn’t and as long as I make what I want to make how I want to make it I can feel good about it now.
I just turned 30 and I’ve been creating nonstop since like 22 and i feel like I’m becoming my own, but sometimes the pressure of responsibilities overwhelm me. I want to push barriers and i find creating to be the most therapeutic I’ve EVER experienced. I’ll never let it go, and i just did my first set of shows in LA. I sometimes feel guilty for pursuing it like i am. Anybody else feel guilty or selfish with their passions ?
I feel the same some times, it usually has to be with fear; fear of not finding success or being criticized for my creations, or being criticized because i speak, create and share as if i am already that succesful artist. guess what, i am already a successful artist if i think i am, but also i am not if think that way. I am here because i am getting aged, close 30s, feeling i am far far away from something i dont even understand; maybe it's the urge of controllig things or my future. Clicked on the video as i wanted to hear what i already by intuition know - i trust my path, i trust what i do. Sometimes you feel lost, some times you feel on top of the world. there's dark and brightness, up and down, sunrise and sunset. so i think it's normal to feel like this some times. it part of the process. some experiences take more time than others. I think you are on the process of getting confidence on your craft. You can only get confident by confronting, by doing the things you FEEL right. do it for you. share no matter what happens, you cant control the result, only your actions. it did not work? action again. it did work? action again. finally, your state of mind (i am already a successful artist) can iluminate people. some of them will support you as they get inspired by you, some will get inspired in silence, and some of them will reflect their insecurities as they would like to be as brave as you. do not forget why you do it. it has to be for you. that's why you sing, rap, write, paint about your own stories, and as you cant control the results, you only control action, the activate that energy, and that energy will align with the right people. you talked about music being therapeutic, then, continue to heal my friend, and help others to do it through out your music. you already have purpose. i wish you all the best!
@@Kidgondi this is amazing thanks for taking the time to say this. It is a lot of peaks and valleys and through the ups and downs I’m always reminded i love if still. The fear you speak on sometimes comes from a place of knowing I’ll never give this up but i want it to sustain me. I’m having the most fun right now with it and I’m fighting to keep it that way where i should just be grateful for the moment and just remembering this is already everything I’ve dreamed of doing. Thank you!
Definitely relate to this. Feeling like you should be at a more responsible established place but chasing the dream. Glad to see some one else relates.
Thanks for this video, as a 55 year old artist, I realised I had ADHD at 50, so I feel that my life is only just getting started after 50 years of having no direction or motivation, I’ve finally started working on my goals/dreams of being an artist. I have always been OBSESSED with making art, but feel I’ve wasted 50 years! I only have 28 UA-cam subscribers so far, and a very tiny trickle of Etsy sales, but it’s a start 😬🙃
Holy crap... and here I thought I was screwed by being diagnosed at 30. Sadly, for ten years, having that confirmation has meant nothing and I totally relate to you on the no direction/motivation thing. Sure, I had been in bands and such, though I have sacrificed and lost so much chasing that dream. Moving across the country for it multiple times and having lost everything I own, no less than three times, including my guitars/Amps/Gear. I mean, how much punishment is someone supposed to take? Yet every time I try to break up, Music is creeping in my DMs trying to rekindle things. Sadly, one day I woke up and it was gone completely. Six years later, I have tried to pick it up again, though it's like starting all over, being so much older and having absolutely nothing to show for all of my previous work.
I still make music at 39. I feel that my music is much better now because of all the experience that I can call from. I’ve loved more I’ve lost more, and you can hear that soul in someone’s voice.
I'm 27 and my new band has two members in their 40's completing the trio. I've always been working with older people. Got my vocal chops down with a Doobie Brothers tribute band, learned how to track in a traditional studio, learned live sound engineering, etc with people in their 40's, 50's and up. I'm currently in another band, the singer is 60, she wrote 26 original songs in 2 years and booked a 15 000 people festival feature as our FIRST ever gig. The whole culture of "you only get one chance" is the most toxic lie ever told. The music industry is a fcked up place, and I thank God my dad was here to help me navigate it.
With the most common comment hitting my socials and yt, "This is majorly underrated" it has hurt for many years to not see as much growth as I'd like, but only in the latter 2 years I have slowly grown closer to the notion that I'm starting to find a joy - I am finding a voice that allows the art to breathe, be itself, and let's me be myself and see this act of maturity come through. It's beautiful. And this video further propelled that concept forward. Some of our "musical circles" are toxic, because we're in rough dopaminergic times but this was a healing medicine. Thank you for this video.
Thanks again for this video I finally break through my real self now and I am 53...and I am younger than ever. Age is mainly in your mind. I do collage, I am writing again and have a lot of project. I like to listen to the new generation of artists. They are amazing! I also have my roots in Jazz, Funk and Rock. The most important is how you feel and where you are now in your journey. For me I am finallyu on the right path. Missguided is the exact feeling I had during all those years. Once again amazing video. 🙏🙏
Absolutely love you for this, it’s scary as even the young artists in their mid 20s, that we work with in the studio, worry that it may be too late for them to succeed. We tell them that Love & Hate are just opposite ends of the same stick/spectrum and that Love focuses energy internally but Hate focuses energy externally. Your message about homing in on life experiences and turning one’s focus away from societal expectations to yield one’s own creative mastery are the exact teachings we want the artist around us to learn from. So agin, thank you. I think we are going to all of our artists in to watch this as a group and form discussions around this profound message. 💚
In my 40s and finally writing music I personally enjoy. All through my 20s I felt like bands pushed me to write what they wanted . Thank you so much for this video!
I feel like as you grow older the content of the music grows deeper and deeper - I think that's the cool thing about getting older as an artist - the art/music is going to naturally be more meaningful - we only have to look at Mac Millers artisitic journey. Anyways every video you make just gets cleaner and better! Well done!! 🔥
Honestly I’m growing into becoming more comfortable with experimental artwork and music…it speaks to exploring myself at the deepest lengths, creatively and humanely. When I say experimental, I do it for myself…not with the intention to showcase the work looking for others to be impressed. I dabble in different mediums to keep strengthening my creative freedom. By not producing for mass culture, this is the key to unlocking a never ending flow of imagination, creativity, and artistic joy.
I am 32, my band is called Box Elder from Jackson, Wyoming and as an indie musician playing in a very active alt rock band, trying to navigate the industry as the “old guys,” it’s very discouraging. We’re always the old dudes in the room playing a house show of 21-25 year olds, waking up on the floor of some random person's house after playing a show 2000 miles from home with our bodies completely aching with another week of that ahead of us, having to do vocal exercises and go for a run every day of tour just to stay show ready and keep my body/mind from breaking down, trying to navigate trends like TikTok that go against everything we knew playing in bands as early adults. The biggest thing I have realized is to just keep going. This is what we love doing and I truly hope one day it works out but until then, I am going to keep playing my guitar. It takes time. It takes energy. But we get to do things only a small percentage of other people on this earth get to experience.
This channel reminds me of old school youtube. Just really well made, heartfelt content. Sharing knowledge to help others. Thank you for these. I've been drawing more cus of these
Great video, thanks. My two cents as a working musician of 40 years - be mindful of your intention. What is it you want in relation to a music career? For many years I said I just wanted my own studio with lots of instruments where I can do whatever i want to do. As a youngster I assumed that would be as a successful artist in the industry, and instead I ended up running a community based studio doing project me with young and old, seniors and adults with developmental disabilities. It’s allowed me to play very kind of music while making a difference in my community. Look around, there’s lots of opportunities. This aligns with the videos focus on purpose. Things keep evolving and I always am amazing that after this long I’m still discovering new ways to express.
I’m 42 year old too .. I agree, everyone life is different.. for me I was just a singer till 36 years old .. after that I tried hand at songwriting and my life changed after that. Now i am 42 got a million streams on Wynk Music India. Greatful ❤
Art is all about a conversation. And wherever you are at in your life, there are gonna be people out there who are the exact people that need to hear what you’ve got to say, at that moment.
thank you for another great, unique and much needed video on a random note: i love that you transcript what it's being said into text because it helps absorb the message (especially when you've got an adhd-leaning brain and struggle with focus and attention, which in this day and age is most of us lol). I also really like how eclectic and open minded you are, making space for both sugimoto and miley in the same video for example, yes to that.
Thanks Serenity now - always great to see you in here, and really glad the stuff I'm making is resonating with you - thanks for the specific feedback also.
. When I hear a matured artist sing or tell a story there is something that is just immediately fascinating about it to me . They almost are indie by default as they just have carved their own lane and don’t follow a trend or anything . There’s something in their voice ( the depth and maybe the storytelling ) and how they see music or any medium really that is so different than mainstream younger artists . I think older & younger artists should definitely have something to look forward to as they age. I do!
Thanks for this! Pretty much how we're feeling as a duo in our mid thirties. Many blessing to you all and your creative journeys. Your gift to the world is you, and the expression of it and your experience through your art.
These videos are so so so so crucial for me during this time, I haven’t quite found my creative tribe so I feel alone in my creative journey all the time! I’m gaining a lot of insight and comfort from all of these points on bringing my art to fruition!❤ thank you all
My last album release was an electronica album in 2001 when I was 29 years old. Three years later I changed gears and put a soul/R&B band together and I was the singer, keyboardist and songwriter. We started recording an album. We played live a lot at first but the momentum slowed down because everyone else was getting married/having kids/etc. I delved in other endeavors in life that turned out to not really work out. The album was finally finished and mixed a few years ago but then The Pandemic hit. Some of us still play together sporadically but I've always wanted to put out our album...but things just keep coming up. "Feeling behind in life" is an understatement that describes me. Today just happens to be my 52nd birthday and I somehow stumbled upon this video, so thank you, I needed this.
43 and just released my first album with another due Spring 2024!!!! Published 3 books in the last two years as well. Never too late! I had to raise kids and build a business first so I could afford studio time and control my intellectual property so I wouldn’t have to “sell my soul.”
seeing all the musicians in here coming together and being positive about their passion and never giving it up really inspire me so much. I’m 18, im more than grateful to have this headstart. No matter how long, rough, and stressful my journey is, I won’t ever give up 🤘🏾music is what I love
So good and so true. I didn't really find my voice until I stopped trying to please everyone else. When I began to do it for myself, my own enjoyment and self fulfillment the floodgates opened.
Much of the way that I used to see the world was part and parcel with being young, and the hubris and particular blindness that always entails. You miss the energy level and the certainty, but at the same time, you freely understand all the basic ways you were wrong.I do wish that that the good aspects that stood the test of time could be found in younger artists coming up, but they are instead unique to my perspective, and will be lost if I don't put them out there.
This video gives me hope. I keep going through these cycles of feeling excited and hopeful to feeling deflated. In my 30s with a tiny social circle. Thanks for this mate
I'm 57, but with time, I lost all the drive to almost everything. When we are young, we have something essential to a music career, beyond talent: The energy, the sillyness, the motivation, the drive. But as time passes, I came to the conclusion that either you do, or don't, it doesn't mean anything at all. I still love to play and listen to music, but there are too many good artists already. I don't like to lie to myself. Dreams about that are a thing of the past. We get tired to try, to work, to struggle, but, hey, you come to your senses and asks: What's it all about ? Why do this, why do that ? And you finally discover that life doesn't need to be a struggle, this eternal competition, and you begin to love nature, who you are, and you finally discover the fullness of life. You simply let it be. 🎉🎉❤
When i was younger my writing was definitely more charged. It had more fire, but the fact is fire burns indiscriminately. I had no focus and my ability to learn the things i needed to learn suffered greatly. I needed to focus on completing certain steps that required all types of investment, and i was just exploding on paper instead. I am a firm believer that no time spent writing is time wasted. I can still use those lyrics, in its entirety or maybe revised a bit. The beauty of lyrics is it captures emotion and energy that can be harnessed at any time. I can perform them and feel what i was feeling, it was me, so i can step into that energy even all these years later. The difference is, im older now with the ability to do something with it. I have more patience now. My work isnt so rushed like i have a time limit and i realize its all a process. A real artists work comes together like puzzle peices when its time. You just have to look at the whole thing as a timeline, a process, and invest yourself into your art with patience and understanding.
As a woman this is felt 10 fold because the whole world tries to instill in us that our value lies in our youth. It’s constantly trying to unlearn and hold strong against these debilitating societal beliefs
Still a pleasure to watch your videos. Always smart and inspiring. I like the way you think about creativity. I have the same kind of connection. Thank you for the job done.
This hits home. I'm 27 and hoping to start a career in dance. I dont know if anyone will read this, but I feel lost with no direction. I feel like im always grasping at straws, hoping something will stick. maybe this video will be the one that helps me stop overthinking. Only time will tell.
Good work here. So many ways.. to ‘get there’.. whatever and wherever ‘there’ is for you. I am realizing more that the manifestation works itself from the inside, out and not, the other way around. We can be inspired by others, as it should be - but our true creations come from within us - from the seat of the soul - from my Creator. Thanks for sharing this video.
42yo and still making music and writing songs. Am I too old? Maybe. Can I quit my day job? Not by a long shot. But to me that's kind of a liberating feeling - to know that I'm doing something I genuinely love doing, for no other reason than I just love doing it. Even if no one else hears my work, even if I don't make a cent, I'm confident in saying I'll be creating in some form for the rest of my life.
The thing that helps me is disconnecting from the belief of age. It's just a system of numbers you can follow or not, but at the end of the day.....your not age X. What you really are, is alive. And as long as your alive, that's all that matters.
I’m nearly 50 years old and have always played drums and back up vocals for other bands and groups ect , have now started working on some original music of my own , finally lol
Thank you for including my songs "Debriefing" & "Gavroche" in this video! I've loved & learned from all your videos so far, so I'm honored.
To whoever is reading this - wherever you are in life - as long as you're here there's time. Though this world will often disappoint us in as a many ways as it can with it's arbitrary distribution of both good fortune and horror, it can also be a canvas for the most amazing possibilities. Until you draw your last breath, do not give up on yourself. Trust your process. Trust your vision.
Great video, again. Much needed advice as I'm balancing the acceptance of these truths, and a hastier subconscious version of me trying to deny them.
As someone who is 34 turning 35 this year, I spent years go into circles about my writing and comedy. I spent years listening to family and friends about “ getting a real job” and “ art doesn’t pay the bills” only to eventually tuning that noise out.
I want to share a perspective with artists who may in the comments older. Although you are pursuing art at an age that’s not “ celebrated “ look at it as how much incredible experience you’ve gained. So many people wish they have life experiences to create from. I thank God I didn’t pursue standup at a young age bc I wouldn’t have shit to talk about. Now in my mid 30s, I have endless material to write jokes.
You have time and you’re not too old to do anything.
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Man I’m 42, I quit music at 27 and thought I was too old then 😂 so young and dumb. I’ll never quit music now. Having the time of my life.
Just checked out your page, your content is great and shot so well too, subbed!
@@ansomworld Thanks man!! I really appreciate that. Welcome 🙏🏾
keep the youtube content coming my guy. pages like you and archie help people more than you know.
@@FromTheHipp Thanks man! That’s why I keep doing it. I want to give back some value and also it’s actually therapeutic for me as well.
That's the age where I almost quit myself lol
thats the importance about creation. some A&R that has never created a day in his life is going to be the one that tells you to stop at 35? but God gave you the gift and the means to express it, so you do it. You dont tell a painter to stop painting at 75. You dont tell an actor to stop acting at 60. You dont tell a pianist to stop playing at 30. a novelist to stop writing at 50... so its miserably misguided to tell an artist, whether you sing or rap(which i now just call vocalists) to stop creating art. if you put the time into your project and it sounds incredible, the world will recognize it and appreciate it.
I didn’t write an original song into I was 30 years old. Now I’m playing in a band, composing for film and making my own music on the side. I’m 33 and still rising!
Yes!!
That's amazing! And very inspiring to hear. What made you finally start creating? Im 30 and ive played guitar most of my life at this point, and i love to be creative but my ideas never go further than a voice memo on my phone. I always felt uncapable of making music for real, even if i know that's not true. Instead of creating i obsess about improving my playing, which is kinda useless considering i'm just playing by myself and know no other musicians lol.
@@menamgamg i think at some point i gave up on being “good enough” and just focused on recording my ideas. It’s all very rough and has plenty of flaws but i just try to remember that none of that matters and to just write for me. I know you have it in you as well and as long as the song is meaningful to you then it doesn’t matter what other people think of it
@@mattymcfabb Thank you. I think perfectionism is definitely a problem for me and i always keep moving the goalpost of what good enough is. I'm aware that this behavior is a form of avoidance because I'm afraid of creating for some reason, but i don't know why i have that fear honestly and i know it's irrational. Maybe it's the fear that i will find i'm incapable.
I didn't find out how to get the muse flowing at will until I was 37. But now life is great...in that respect.
Artistry is not a phase it's a lifestyle. To infinity and beyond
Hmmm
I’m 58 now. I’m almost finished my second album. My first one was crap. I’m proud of this one. I doubt anyone will listen to it and that does make me wonder why I bother but creators must create…
I’m also a huge Miley Cyris fan!
Just a couple of years behind you, and doing the same. Except I decided not to make an album, I've been using AI assisted video editing software to make lyric videos that I post to UA-cam. Like you, I don't know if anyone will listen to what I putting out there, but I'm loving the process and v happy to be still learning stuff, despite the advancing age!!
@@repeat2fade hey, that’s fantastic! I’ll listen for sure! What is the name of the software you are using. I need to make lyric videos for my songs but I have no clue how to do it :/
As long as you like it and got whatever feeling/message you wanted to express out, that’s all that matters man
@@TheOMasterJ no, that’s not all that matters to me. I would like to earn some income from my work!
Good for you! I just turned 54. Started music when I was in elementary school and played on and off through my 20s. Then life got in the way and I started doing other things. Picked it up again when the pandemic hit and have been writing since then. Fourth single releasing on Dec 8, but I'm mostly interested in writing. I release music to get my name out there, but...the hardest part for me is I don't like promoting myself on social media. I definitely feel like I'm too old for that, especially TikTok. I have a day job, so this isn't a make it or break it thing for me, but it would still be great if one of my fave artists called me up and said "hey, love your music and would love to write with you!" A girl can dream...
Just hitting my 40s still feeling like a 20yr old, I realize the meaning of “it’s never too late”. Especially as a creative, your age DOES NOT translate your creativity. Even in this day in age, if you feel you’re “too old” for certain things, you gotta think that you’re already several steps ahead of your younger counterparts. If you’ve done your homework, then you need to take advantage of that. But with age aside, success in life involves seeing things that others haven’t seen yet.
Thanks for spreading your story and support on the page here. So great to see people resonating with this one, and the positivity that's coming out. Thanks for taking the time.
Except when you want to be a female rapper. It’s so ageist 😢
@@adriannaalba2649 Queen Latifah and MC Lyte are still hailed as queens. Nah, f-that, ‘queen’ gets thrown around to easily these days. They are the goddesses of hip hop. Then you got Lil Kim who paved the way for the queens of that raunchy/ratchet style which I’m personally second to. But in the male-dominated environment of hip hop, yes, the females have to work that much harder to make their mark. We got Nicki who’s prolly the oldest of that Lil Kim style staying relevant. But I honestly prefer to see more of that Latifah/Lyte style come back which I see in the likes of Rapsody, Young MA, and Mumu Fresh. Ultimately, what really matters is putting your heart and soul into your craft and people will see that. It’s terribly sad, especially for females having to “sell” themselves whilst putting their actual talent to the side.
I am a 53 y/o painter drawer sculptor. I can asure you that it would been simply impossible, to create the work i am now creating any sooner. Especially without the past 28 years of searching, reading , researching, getting to understand my subject matter and maturing. Some art can only come to fruition after a long journey.
45 yrs old and back in the game after a 12 yr hiatus from doing original music, and i'm working on the best album i've ever written, all because of the accumulated experiences and maturity. I needed to hear this reassurance.
Good for you. Same boat ❤
Same here. I quit at about 33 now I’m 45. I’ve been at it for the last couple years now not at all as much as I should. I have kids and I work seven days a week but little by little.
@@LoVeAmBiEnT Good for you! Never too late
That’s great ! I am doing the same . And finally have some good gear 😂
Man, I can't believe how many of us are in our forties are getting back on the music. Good luck and stay blessed
This video reminded me of a quote from Richard Hamming “For mathematics and physics, the best work is done by the young. It takes raw creativity to identify truths about the universe. For music and novel writing, later in career produces best work. It takes experience to create a masterpiece.”
Thanks for dropping the quote, and glad the video brought it up. I have a friend who teaches maths - I'm going to ask them about this next time I see them. Cheers again for taking the time.
Man I'm not gonna lie. feeling old all the time since the industry likes to highlight super young artists. I've been thinking about it differently lately. but yeah also this video is beautiful bro. love what you do.
If u feel old u most likely are getting older. This video was made just so pathetic people like u can give him views
I hear ya Trevor. The trick “on the industry side” is to find someone who is coachable, someone who wants to be groomed… someone who will lie and do things that they don’t want in order to become “successful”. When someone is willing to do that, they can be taken advantage of and won’t see it coming and also doesn’t know what to do about it. Industry is manipulation. The lie sold is… you can do it, just let us help… once you are controlled, they can shelf you or drop you or ruin you.. but only on the large scale..
@@brandontherun8637 don’t waste your time. He’s hopeless
The reason the 'industry' like young talents is because it immediately makes everyone feel useless.. keeps up the 'mysterious virtuouso' marketing schtik.
Ironically you don't become a young virtuoso without having some kind of lack luster child hood.. there fore easy to manipulate.
As someone who was on a path to join the "27 Club" well into my 30s, I can tell you that all of this is true. Im almost 49 now, and Ive been through all the addictions, predatory contracts, let downs, and I truly don't beleive my career actually started until I was in my 40s.
Do you have a legitimate mental disorder? Joining the 27 club ends the second you turn 28. I thought that was a given, considering it’s called the 27 CLUB.
Also what career? Hope u not talking about music cos u do not have a career in music
Don't we all have mental disorders? I have music placements on thousands upon thousands of television shows, and none of that really started to happen until I was in my fourties and relatively cleaned up. So... it doesn't matter how old you are. You are the result of your choices. @@Ash-j2h4x
I’m 67 and can honestly say that my songs are better than ever….problem is that the rest of the world just don’t care. This however won’t stop me from writing….your indifference is not my problem. I’ve accepted it and look at my creativity as therapy in a world increasingly getting crazier and colder.
37, and it's just me, loop pedal, and a bedroom on guitar. No one else is subjected to it. I suffer my 'art.' it's just meditation, like fasting, breathing, cold showers. It's that flow state of riding bike through a city. Everything is a rhythm. Thanks to all the drummers out there, because I really hear the guitar more as a student of percussion.
Just before I turned 50, I was inspired by Ren to finally record a song I wrote 20 years ago, accepting my scarred vocal chords for what they can do now, instead of waiting for perfection. If The Rolling Stones can release a new album at 80, why can't any other 80 year old release their first album? Hurt was one of Johnny Cash's most powerful songs, not despite his age, but because of the wisdom he brought to Trent Reznor's words.
The strange thing is that music is something you get better at as time goes by. But the music industry (does that even exist?) does not appreciate this. My advice is to do it for yourself as self-fulfillment or as giving yourself personal goals and this will be more rewarding ultimately. Many of the great composers of the past never even got to hear their own music performed. So at least we are lucky in that respect.
I’m about to hit 40 and I just got my first international booking. Which is a dream come true. There were and there are still days where I get down on myself or I don’t get the approval or reaction from the people who are playing my records but I’ve learned lately that if I like the record then that’s all that matters and If I didn’t make anything that I did like then I have to remind myself to keep going.
Appreciate you sharing your story in here and dropping the support here for others.
I'm 62. I recorded and released 13 albums, composed a symphony and two orchestral fantasias, produced over 50 music videos, designed and built my own instrument, toured the US and Europe, composed music for over a dozen independent films, dance companies, and theater groups, and produced my own concerts. I've also written books and my paintings have been in several galleries and openings. Hell, I do entire concerts where I improvise every note of music I play!
My music changed A LOT since I started. This is the natural order of things. But I'm as creative as I ever was. I can't turn it off! And after over a half century I have been making music, I feel like I'm just beginning.
Does anyone think I should stop making music because I'm in my 60s? Stop me. I dare you to try.
Never atop! You are brilliant and keep being just that.
Congrats on be true to yourself. ❤❤
As a producer that's about to turn 30 this is hitting different.
The one thing that I’ve been emphasizing to my friends who are also creative, is when they make a project and they get in a small hole of uncertainty, doubt or resistance. I ask them “are you making this for you or are you making this to be liked?” and usually the general answer is , “I’m making this for me.” and then you follow up with the question “do you like it?” and most the time they say “yes, BUT… “ and that’s where you have to stop them. the moment they say but there’s no need, if you like it, you like it. that’s all that matters, everyone else comes after you.
I hear that. So tough to try and quiet that voice of others in your head when you're working. Thanks for sharing your piece and story on this - it's appreciated.
So true. Even our greatest , deepest project can face criticism even when our entire existence in poured into it. Accept one’s own art.
If you want to have a career and get paid, it’s important to make music that you think others may also like. If it’s just a hobby, then your opinion only matters. But if it’s a career, you do have to try and give people something they can connect with
@@trashyraccoon2615 but you’d still have to have a liking to what you’re making. You can always be considerate of what people might like, but if you’re an artist and you compromise the entirety of the project for others there will be no correlation with what you wanted to make for yourself
@@DREDIRECTS Right. That’s why I said “also” like. You’re gonna need to have both if you want to make a career out of it
I was the local artist’s artist in the band’s band pre-pandemic. We were all in our 20s and then the pandemic happened and we all transitioned to our 30s with everything on hold. Most of the bands who we shared bills with called it quits. My band and the bands I was in fizzled too. Since, I’ve been alone working in creative isolation and I’m starting to figure myself out. I thought it was over for me too now that I was irrelevant by way of a crumbled “era”, but recently art has started making sense and I’ve been creating for and from myself and I’ve never felt so free. It’s a really tough place to get to and through especially with how dark and cynical it it can get.
If it's feeling like the end, take a break and your art will come to you when you need it, not when others do.
Honestly I have never seen a generation so obsessed with age like this generation it's weird failing to understand some artists back in the day didn't hit their creative highs until they got older being young is that your your young your still learning & trying to figure yourself out so the music reflects that but when you have Life experience because of age an Artists has plenty to sing or rap about
Im 27 and I thought I would be too old but that's so silly, especially since so many of my favorite artist popped off later in life. I have so much more focus and clarity on what i want to do, that I am kind of glad that I waited.
20's was spent gaining experience and 30's are spent putting that experience to use. Way more productive now
Im almost 31 and have been working hard on music for 8/9 years now on my own original music. It is not easy.
Yet, i feel its something that sort of siphons out those who dont truly love music and makes you really either double down or slow down. Im at the point ive said its music or death. We keep pushing.
I appreciate this video
Music is life.
A picture is worth a thousand words. A song is worth a thousand pictures.
I often like to remind myself that Colonel Sanders was 65 when he (eventually) established the fast food chain KFC, having previously tried many business ventures with varying degrees of success. His 'time' came later in life...
As for me? I'm 60! I have never stopped educating myself.
With You Tube, the process has been made so much easier!
My creative journey is still unfolding.
As an aspiring rapper/music artist myself, I needed to see this video because I have been doubting myself lately because of my slow progress trying to do music and I’m just trying so hard not to let those doubts get into my creativity and my mindset as a songwriter and artist even though I’m only 24 I been putting out music since I was 17
As a creative twice your age, I’ve dealt with those same feelings throughout. Things have definitely changed to allow creatives to be heard. Only if your brave enough to share your creations. Being honest with myself, I’ve personally WASTED so much of my creative life due to FEAR. Time that I’ll never get back. In the end, as long as you create freely from within, and YOU like it… That’s all that truly matters. (Wish I would’ve understood that long ago.) ✊🏾👍🏾✌🏾
i started late 2020 i was 21 and some times i wished i started earlier like 17 perhaphs id gone far but nothing so i started making beats thinking ive started late till i watch a video of a producer from kvxi interview and he said he started two years ago and now his beat is on drake's new album ..... and that got me motivated
This video was exactly what I needed, I was fighting demons. Whispering my most personal insecurities to me. Encouraging/Convincing me to be passive. This video is art and a blessing. Thank you and shalom
I deal with the same thing as an aspiring artist and fight everyday to get through and letting u know you are not alone
Glad this one resonated for you and where you're at with your work right now. Thanks for taking the time to drop in and support in the comments - it's appreciated.
You my friend, are an artist
Holy shit every one of your videos have been so needed. Thank you!!!
Right?!
Omg same and didn't expect to see you here 💞
This is awesome. I think we all need tk learn is that not everyone peaks in their late teens and 20s. We as a society need to allow room for those artists who peak later in life to have a stage if they have earned it.
As someone who had folks around me that told me I only had a limited time to do what I love. Thank you for making this video. I don’t think I could ever walk away from making music. It makes me feel so free.
As a musician who played in highschool, gave it up for 10 years and started back at 31, this video echoes a lot of what I've felt. I am a completely different person now and have a much different perspective on music and life. Great video as always!
As a 34 year old artest that hasnt had a release in 10+ years and stumbling onto this channel, what an eye opening piece, thank you for this. I needed to hear this.
I'm going on 8 years and it's soul torture.
I didn't know myself until I hit a bottom at 23. After being sober for 2 years, I have purpose and can reflect. I feel ready to share a perspective and my music shows that now.
Yo what up Nate lol
@@thelashaunlove yooooooooo!
I liked this video. Seeing Miley front and center made me not wanna watch at first because though I enjoy her, she’s a nepo baby and got her shot super young. Seeing & hearing about people who got their shots later in life is more inspiring. That’s just my perspective though, thanks for putting this vid together.
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Right. It put me off too cause why is this nepo baby who gained her success in her teens being used as an example of “feeling behind in life” in terms of career success? And she’s in the middle of the thumbnail too… Kind of defeats the purpose of this video.
100% she had any and every resource/opportunity waiting for her
Someone asked me today why I’d waited so long to start in musical theatre. While it’s been painful to (realise how much I) have been cut off from part of myself for decades, I do think taking the long way to find myself has given me a breadth of life experience and perspective. And maybe that maturity adds depth to what I create and how I perform in some way. I really appreciated this video, especially the segment from 5:29 to 5:59. Thank you!
I gave up my dreams at 23 and settled to see music as a 5 minute hobby every Sunday or as much time my job allowed me to. "It will go away, and I will forget those dreams eventually." But the thing is, creative minds cannot be contained, controlled, or have the capability to forget. Our minds are tied to the joy that comes from creating. 20s, 30s, 50s and beyond, music doesn't leave us. Nowadays music is still my hobby; the difference is that I make use of all my free time to do it. The joy of hearing a finished product that I visualized in my mind, overrides the pain of disappointment of those dreams that didn't come true. And we keep creating as life goes on.
When I heard Tonis voice before the cut went to her I realized this was going to be one to sit down and full get a hot drink and be with. Thanks very much for more magick.
Ah glad you appreciated the Toni Morrison bit. Really happy the work is resonating, and thanks for taking the time to support - it matters.
I take great comfort in knowing that someday when I am old, even crippled and alone, I still can do something that I love: make music and write lyrics.
Just started last year, in the age of 45. People think I am crazy, but I think they just don't know how liberating it feels to be able to create something from the air.
Charles Bukowski has always been one of my biggest inspirations, because he never found success until really late into his life, but he still never gave up
I just turned 34 and have been struggling a lot with this. Making my best work ever for sure. But I’ve been trying to get to a stable point in my career for 15 years and still haven’t. I feel like it may never come and that scares the shit out of me because I’ll I’ve done my whole life is sacrifice and work relentlessly towards this
Progress in your work sounds great but yeah thanks for sharing that more than valid fear there also. It's always good to hear a bit of the story of people watching these videos. Yeah, know it's appreciated, and just glad this one connected.
Man bro I relate to this deeply. I want to really encourage you how I am encouraging myself, to innovate yourself. You’ve mastered music take it beyond music. How many ways can music/the artist evolve? Is the final form of the artist playing and singing? Or is there more? What is the future of the artist? How many ways can you package this to create a shock factor? These days any thing is possible man. You’ve mastered music now Innovate innovate innovate!! We can lead the industry by innovating every thing.
I started recording over 30 years ago on a 4 track tape recorder. Stumbled my way through digital recording over the last 20 years. I recently started using an ai vocal plugin and I'm writing lyrics for the first time in my life. Now I'm re-recording and finishing songs I started on my 4 track. Some of my best work. I'll never stop doing what I love
I'm turning 32 next month and I feel the most artistic I've been in my 13 years of making music. I'm from DC and I felt like all my musical friends were leaving me behind in the begining. They all found success early. After my Mom died 9 years ago, I stopped doing music for 4 years and moved to China. When I first got here, I gave myself some time to just experience everything here in 2016. By the time 2019 came I was ready to start making music again and it was the best decision I ever made. I learned so many new skills, expanding my genres, and feeling more free to make what I wanted. I even started performing live. I learned how to follow my experiences to make my art and let go of the emotions that were holding on to me.
I played sang in a band, wrote and had some decent art design skills in my youth. When our band eventually had life hit us in the face, we all started families and got real jobs. We hadn’t played in 10 years I had almost completely erased the thought of playing music or doing anything art related in anyway. During the pandemic we decided to get back together and go get a legitimate studio recording of the old songs. That opened us all up to playing again and with that came all our life experiences and higher musical knowledge as well as a little more disposable income. I will say I trust myself in my writing abilities more now and I like what I’m writing so much more. As well as I started designing again all our merch and album art by yours truly and I love it. I think all in all there was much more fear in me and my abilities when I was young cause I thought that it meant everything now I know it doesn’t and as long as I make what I want to make how I want to make it I can feel good about it now.
This video and the comments is like having a bunch therapists speak to me at the same time. ❤
I just turned 30 and I’ve been creating nonstop since like 22 and i feel like I’m becoming my own, but sometimes the pressure of responsibilities overwhelm me. I want to push barriers and i find creating to be the most therapeutic I’ve EVER experienced. I’ll never let it go, and i just did my first set of shows in LA. I sometimes feel guilty for pursuing it like i am. Anybody else feel guilty or selfish with their passions ?
I feel the same some times, it usually has to be with fear; fear of not finding success or being criticized for my creations, or being criticized because i speak, create and share as if i am already that succesful artist. guess what, i am already a successful artist if i think i am, but also i am not if think that way.
I am here because i am getting aged, close 30s, feeling i am far far away from something i dont even understand; maybe it's the urge of controllig things or my future. Clicked on the video as i wanted to hear what i already by intuition know - i trust my path, i trust what i do. Sometimes you feel lost, some times you feel on top of the world. there's dark and brightness, up and down, sunrise and sunset. so i think it's normal to feel like this some times. it part of the process. some experiences take more time than others.
I think you are on the process of getting confidence on your craft. You can only get confident by confronting, by doing the things you FEEL right. do it for you. share no matter what happens, you cant control the result, only your actions. it did not work? action again. it did work? action again.
finally, your state of mind (i am already a successful artist) can iluminate people. some of them will support you as they get inspired by you, some will get inspired in silence, and some of them will reflect their insecurities as they would like to be as brave as you. do not forget why you do it. it has to be for you. that's why you sing, rap, write, paint about your own stories, and as you cant control the results, you only control action, the activate that energy, and that energy will align with the right people. you talked about music being therapeutic, then, continue to heal my friend, and help others to do it through out your music. you already have purpose. i wish you all the best!
@@Kidgondi this is amazing thanks for taking the time to say this. It is a lot of peaks and valleys and through the ups and downs I’m always reminded i love if still. The fear you speak on sometimes comes from a place of knowing I’ll never give this up but i want it to sustain me. I’m having the most fun right now with it and I’m fighting to keep it that way where i should just be grateful for the moment and just remembering this is already everything I’ve dreamed of doing.
Thank you!
Definitely relate to this. Feeling like you should be at a more responsible established place but chasing the dream. Glad to see some one else relates.
@@Alfaunoh yeah i be feeling wrong for having that faith sometimes, but i love it so that’s where it gets difficult to rationalize certain parts of it
Thanks for this video, as a 55 year old artist, I realised I had ADHD at 50, so I feel that my life is only just getting started after 50 years of having no direction or motivation, I’ve finally started working on my goals/dreams of being an artist. I have always been OBSESSED with making art, but feel I’ve wasted 50 years! I only have 28 UA-cam subscribers so far, and a very tiny trickle of Etsy sales, but it’s a start 😬🙃
Holy crap... and here I thought I was screwed by being diagnosed at 30. Sadly, for ten years, having that confirmation has meant nothing and I totally relate to you on the no direction/motivation thing.
Sure, I had been in bands and such, though I have sacrificed and lost so much chasing that dream. Moving across the country for it multiple times and having lost everything I own, no less than three times, including my guitars/Amps/Gear. I mean, how much punishment is someone supposed to take? Yet every time I try to break up, Music is creeping in my DMs trying to rekindle things.
Sadly, one day I woke up and it was gone completely. Six years later, I have tried to pick it up again, though it's like starting all over, being so much older and having absolutely nothing to show for all of my previous work.
The fifty years weren't wasted. They were required to make you what you are today, the artist that you are today.
I still make music at 39. I feel that my music is much better now because of all the experience that I can call from. I’ve loved more I’ve lost more, and you can hear that soul in someone’s voice.
I'm 27 and my new band has two members in their 40's completing the trio. I've always been working with older people. Got my vocal chops down with a Doobie Brothers tribute band, learned how to track in a traditional studio, learned live sound engineering, etc with people in their 40's, 50's and up. I'm currently in another band, the singer is 60, she wrote 26 original songs in 2 years and booked a 15 000 people festival feature as our FIRST ever gig. The whole culture of "you only get one chance" is the most toxic lie ever told. The music industry is a fcked up place, and I thank God my dad was here to help me navigate it.
With the most common comment hitting my socials and yt, "This is majorly underrated" it has hurt for many years to not see as much growth as I'd like, but only in the latter 2 years I have slowly grown closer to the notion that I'm starting to find a joy - I am finding a voice that allows the art to breathe, be itself, and let's me be myself and see this act of maturity come through. It's beautiful. And this video further propelled that concept forward. Some of our "musical circles" are toxic, because we're in rough dopaminergic times but this was a healing medicine. Thank you for this video.
Thanks again for this video I finally break through my real self now and I am 53...and I am younger than ever. Age is mainly in your mind. I do collage, I am writing again and have a lot of project. I like to listen to the new generation of artists. They are amazing! I also have my roots in Jazz, Funk and Rock. The most important is how you feel and where you are now in your journey. For me I am finallyu on the right path. Missguided is the exact feeling I had during all those years. Once again amazing video. 🙏🙏
Thanks so much for sharing your story in here. I appreciate you taking the time to support and share the words of positivity.
Absolutely love you for this, it’s scary as even the young artists in their mid 20s, that we work with in the studio, worry that it may be too late for them to succeed. We tell them that Love & Hate are just opposite ends of the same stick/spectrum and that Love focuses energy internally but Hate focuses energy externally. Your message about homing in on life experiences and turning one’s focus away from societal expectations to yield one’s own creative mastery are the exact teachings we want the artist around us to learn from. So agin, thank you. I think we are going to all of our artists in to watch this as a group and form discussions around this profound message. 💚
In my 40s and finally writing music I personally enjoy. All through my 20s I felt like bands pushed me to write what they wanted .
Thank you so much for this video!
I feel like as you grow older the content of the music grows deeper and deeper - I think that's the cool thing about getting older as an artist - the art/music is going to naturally be more meaningful - we only have to look at Mac Millers artisitic journey.
Anyways every video you make just gets cleaner and better!
Well done!! 🔥
I can already tell I need this one‼️ thanks in advance ❤️
Honestly I’m growing into becoming more comfortable with experimental artwork and music…it speaks to exploring myself at the deepest lengths, creatively and humanely. When I say experimental, I do it for myself…not with the intention to showcase the work looking for others to be impressed. I dabble in different mediums to keep strengthening my creative freedom. By not producing for mass culture, this is the key to unlocking a never ending flow of imagination, creativity, and artistic joy.
I am 32, my band is called Box Elder from Jackson, Wyoming and as an indie musician playing in a very active alt rock band, trying to navigate the industry as the “old guys,” it’s very discouraging. We’re always the old dudes in the room playing a house show of 21-25 year olds, waking up on the floor of some random person's house after playing a show 2000 miles from home with our bodies completely aching with another week of that ahead of us, having to do vocal exercises and go for a run every day of tour just to stay show ready and keep my body/mind from breaking down, trying to navigate trends like TikTok that go against everything we knew playing in bands as early adults. The biggest thing I have realized is to just keep going. This is what we love doing and I truly hope one day it works out but until then, I am going to keep playing my guitar. It takes time. It takes energy. But we get to do things only a small percentage of other people on this earth get to experience.
i’m kinna on the same path at 26
This channel reminds me of old school youtube. Just really well made, heartfelt content. Sharing knowledge to help others. Thank you for these. I've been drawing more cus of these
Been playing guitar since 16 always had writers block till like 33 randomly and love what I write now
Great video, thanks. My two cents as a working musician of 40 years - be mindful of your intention. What is it you want in relation to a music career? For many years I said I just wanted my own studio with lots of instruments where I can do whatever i want to do. As a youngster I assumed that would be as a successful artist in the industry, and instead I ended up running a community based studio doing project me with young and old, seniors and adults with developmental disabilities. It’s allowed me to play very kind of music while making a difference in my community. Look around, there’s lots of opportunities. This aligns with the videos focus on purpose. Things keep evolving and I always am amazing that after this long I’m still discovering new ways to express.
I’m 42 year old too .. I agree, everyone life is different.. for me I was just a singer till 36 years old .. after that I tried hand at songwriting and my life changed after that. Now i am 42 got a million streams on Wynk Music India. Greatful ❤
Art is all about a conversation. And wherever you are at in your life, there are gonna be people out there who are the exact people that need to hear what you’ve got to say, at that moment.
thank you for another great, unique and much needed video
on a random note: i love that you transcript what it's being said into text because it helps absorb the message (especially when you've got an adhd-leaning brain and struggle with focus and attention, which in this day and age is most of us lol). I also really like how eclectic and open minded you are, making space for both sugimoto and miley in the same video for example, yes to that.
Thanks Serenity now - always great to see you in here, and really glad the stuff I'm making is resonating with you - thanks for the specific feedback also.
this is easily one of my favorite channels on YT right now! can't wait for this to blow up, it's gonna help so many creatives
Glad the videos are resonating with your work or your journey. Appreciate the support always, and taking the time to drop in and say it.
. When I hear a matured artist sing or tell a story there is something that is just immediately fascinating about it to me . They almost are indie by default as they just have carved their own lane and don’t follow a trend or anything . There’s something in their voice ( the depth and maybe the storytelling ) and how they see music or any medium really that is so different than mainstream younger artists . I think older & younger artists should definitely have something to look forward to as they age. I do!
Thanks for this! Pretty much how we're feeling as a duo in our mid thirties. Many blessing to you all and your creative journeys. Your gift to the world is you, and the expression of it and your experience through your art.
Thank you, sincerely. This video means a lot to me. Nearly 40 but still a child in my head …
These videos are so so so so crucial for me during this time, I haven’t quite found my creative tribe so I feel alone in my creative journey all the time! I’m gaining a lot of insight and comfort from all of these points on bringing my art to fruition!❤ thank you all
I needed to see this video for real because lately I been feeling a little unmotivated thanks for real I needed this
My last album release was an electronica album in 2001 when I was 29 years old. Three years later I changed gears and put a soul/R&B band together and I was the singer, keyboardist and songwriter. We started recording an album. We played live a lot at first but the momentum slowed down because everyone else was getting married/having kids/etc. I delved in other endeavors in life that turned out to not really work out. The album was finally finished and mixed a few years ago but then The Pandemic hit. Some of us still play together sporadically but I've always wanted to put out our album...but things just keep coming up. "Feeling behind in life" is an understatement that describes me.
Today just happens to be my 52nd birthday and I somehow stumbled upon this video, so thank you, I needed this.
I'm saving this to watch whenever I need a reminder. This is gold.
43 and just released my first album with another due Spring 2024!!!! Published 3 books in the last two years as well. Never too late! I had to raise kids and build a business first so I could afford studio time and control my intellectual property so I wouldn’t have to “sell my soul.”
seeing all the musicians in here coming together and being positive about their passion and never giving it up really inspire me so much. I’m 18, im more than grateful to have this headstart. No matter how long, rough, and stressful my journey is, I won’t ever give up 🤘🏾music is what I love
So good and so true. I didn't really find my voice until I stopped trying to please everyone else. When I began to do it for myself, my own enjoyment and self fulfillment the floodgates opened.
Much of the way that I used to see the world was part and parcel with being young, and the hubris and particular blindness that always entails.
You miss the energy level and the certainty, but at the same time, you freely understand all the basic ways you were wrong.I do wish that that the good aspects that stood the test of time could be found in younger artists coming up, but they are instead unique to my perspective, and will be lost if I don't put them out there.
This video gives me hope. I keep going through these cycles of feeling excited and hopeful to feeling deflated. In my 30s with a tiny social circle. Thanks for this mate
This is really speaking to me. I have squandered so much time not building a more consistent creative structure that builds momentum.
I'm 57, but with time, I lost all the drive to almost everything. When we are young, we have something essential to a music career, beyond talent: The energy, the sillyness, the motivation, the drive. But as time passes, I came to the conclusion that either you do, or don't, it doesn't mean anything at all. I still love to play and listen to music, but there are too many good artists already. I don't like to lie to myself. Dreams about that are a thing of the past. We get tired to try, to work, to struggle, but, hey, you come to your senses and asks: What's it all about ? Why do this, why do that ? And you finally discover that life doesn't need to be a struggle, this eternal competition, and you begin to love nature, who you are, and you finally discover the fullness of life. You simply let it be. 🎉🎉❤
Thank you for your time creating these videos for the worldwide arts community!! I love getting notifications on your videos
When i was younger my writing was definitely more charged. It had more fire, but the fact is fire burns indiscriminately. I had no focus and my ability to learn the things i needed to learn suffered greatly. I needed to focus on completing certain steps that required all types of investment, and i was just exploding on paper instead. I am a firm believer that no time spent writing is time wasted. I can still use those lyrics, in its entirety or maybe revised a bit. The beauty of lyrics is it captures emotion and energy that can be harnessed at any time. I can perform them and feel what i was feeling, it was me, so i can step into that energy even all these years later. The difference is, im older now with the ability to do something with it. I have more patience now. My work isnt so rushed like i have a time limit and i realize its all a process. A real artists work comes together like puzzle peices when its time. You just have to look at the whole thing as a timeline, a process, and invest yourself into your art with patience and understanding.
I don’t believe that. I’m much older but I’m still working towards my goals. I’ll never ever stop until I reach that goal.
As a woman this is felt 10 fold because the whole world tries to instill in us that our value lies in our youth. It’s constantly trying to unlearn and hold strong against these debilitating societal beliefs
Still a pleasure to watch your videos. Always smart and inspiring. I like the way you think about creativity. I have the same kind of connection. Thank you for the job done.
So grateful for your channel! keep going - artists need it
This channel always seeds faith in myself and my path whenever I interact with it. Thank you.
I really appreciate this video man. Incredible work
This hits home. I'm 27 and hoping to start a career in dance. I dont know if anyone will read this, but I feel lost with no direction. I feel like im always grasping at straws, hoping something will stick.
maybe this video will be the one that helps me stop overthinking. Only time will tell.
Good work here. So many ways.. to ‘get there’.. whatever and wherever ‘there’ is for you.
I am realizing more that the manifestation works itself from the inside, out and not, the other way around. We can be inspired by others, as it should be - but our true creations come from within us - from the seat of the soul - from my Creator. Thanks for sharing this video.
42yo and still making music and writing songs. Am I too old? Maybe. Can I quit my day job? Not by a long shot. But to me that's kind of a liberating feeling - to know that I'm doing something I genuinely love doing, for no other reason than I just love doing it. Even if no one else hears my work, even if I don't make a cent, I'm confident in saying I'll be creating in some form for the rest of my life.
Older artists are going to be the thing soon, mark my words!!!!!
I’ve just found this channel. It may be the most important content I’ve ever found! Thank you! What a brilliant young man you are!
Been looking glad your here brother
The thing that helps me is disconnecting from the belief of age. It's just a system of numbers you can follow or not, but at the end of the day.....your not age X. What you really are, is alive. And as long as your alive, that's all that matters.
This might have been the greatest gift I’ve ever received on UA-cam. I needed this today, found it right after meditation. ❤Thank you
This is such a great video. Thank you for this ❤
what an important Channel this is !!!!!!! Thank You Sir for your profound work !
I’m nearly 50 years old and have always played drums and back up vocals for other bands and groups ect , have now started working on some original music of my own , finally lol
Thank you for this I needed an encouragement~ I’m in my mid twenties and starting to go after my creative dreams