All the screaming and crying during Beatlemania and every artist-mania after it…
What are they crying for?
I’m not sure this is the complete answer, so feel free to add to it…
Music and tears are both languages of the soul. So there’s a natural conversation that happens between the two. It’s a conversation of connection and longing at the same time. Already but not yet.
If the blue tie store knew that everyone walking by liked black suits, they’d change they’re name to the black tie store.
For most of us if the customers would just tell us what color suit they’re gonna wear, we’d be happy to make the perfect tie.
But they don’t. And sometimes what they say they’re gonna wear and what they actually wear are different. And then the style changes. And then a new tie shop opens down the street.
Another first Monday of the month…new Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple. It takes some work to put it together but I always like that I did it.
It’s still a lot of work to put out your music.
There’s been so much talk of AI taking over and killing songwriters and creatives. But as of today, my take is that AI is really good at making music but has a hard time making your music…if you give AI all the inputs and ask ‘what song am I going to make next’…odds are it’s going to be a lot different from the one that you come up with yourself.
There are so many weird decisions, so much whimsy, emotion, stubbornness and compromise that get injected to a song written and recorded by an artist. Music from an artist is personal. And because it’s personal it’s a lot of work.
Impersonal music is going to keep getting faster and easier to make.
So which are you going to get better at making?
You’ve become the one other people wonder about
It’s not a fluke
You can let them come to you
You get more credit than you deserve
It’s easy to get complacent
Everyone says they knew it all along
It’s fun
There’s more interesting opportunities
You think it just might last forever
It feels like justice
Winning, like not winning, is simply a different set of problems to embrace and navigate.
When you show up to your gate at the airport you find bunch of other people wanting to get to the same place as you do. No one called each other to coordinate…everyone just showed up because they heard this plane goes there.
If no one else was there, there wouldn’t be a flight. But everyone is there, so there’s a flight AND everyone shares the cost.
In music this sort of thing has happened…Nashville, New York, LA. No one told musicians to move there but because they did (and continue to) it’s ultimately easier to get to the desired destination.
Being around people who want to get to a similar place as you will make the journey more likely, more fun, more efficient…even with all the turbulence along the way.