New Hum Love playlist up on Spotify and Apple.
If you want the people to dance and they’re not…you’re either playing the wrong songs or playing your songs for the wrong people.
There’s some good dance grooves this month along with some feel good vibes…and a cool tight track called Beverly Blues.
If you don’t know the words, Hum Love.
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There isn’t correlation between the amount of effort you put in and the attention you receive.
Just because you labored over your album for two years doesn’t mean it’s going to stream well.
As a listener, I don’t care that you wrote a hundred songs for your next project. I just hope there’s one I need to hear again.
You get attention when you make something that people want. When you cause desire. When you’re reliably surprising.
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We’re moving.
Where as right now we might ask ‘What kind of car do you drive’, soon enough we’ll ask ‘what kind of car drives you’
It’s a change that’s inevitable, easy to imagine but hard to believe.
When we’re in one set of norms it’s inevitable that they will change but it’s hard to believe…even though we spend a great deal of time imagining it.
When imagination is powerful enough, it can grow into belief and from there we actually start looking for and contributing to the change.
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We’re not tempted by the quick fix anymore. We know about the quick fix, the distraction of it and it’s flimsy backbone. At this point it’s easy to see the quick fix and not be tricked into going for it.
But we also believe we can out smart the long game.
We would never claim to be shooting for over night success, but certainly believe we’re better than being last in line.
Then again, behind all of this is the metrics we’re measuring. What are they and who decided?
We don’t believe in the short line and we don’t want want to be last in line.
What line are we actually in?
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“People got around Keith and they thought they were Keith”- Mick, talking about how people would ramp up their drug use because of how hard Keith could go.
You become like the people you’re around.
One differentiator I see between the upper and lower echelon of artists is this…
Artists in the upper echelon don’t take a break just because they experience some success from working hard. They go hard, get some wins, and keep going hard. The break come when necessary…but they don’t see taking a break as a reward for doing a great job.
Artists in the lower echelon often have a hard time sustaining a build because they think it’s a process of ramping up and then ramping down, up, down, up down. They see relaxing as a reward for their effort.
It’s a lot more likely you’ll become an upper echelon artist if you hang out with others who are at least acting like they are too in this way.
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Breaking Bad is great when you’ve watched it from the beginning.
Seinfeld is great when you watch it at any point.
Both are great.
Do people need to start at the beginning and be along for the ride for your thing to be great? Or can they jump on the bandwagon at any point and have just as good of time?
What do people need to know before they get it, before they’re all in?
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