The good thing about playing your last song is you have the benefit of knowing how all the other songs went over before it.
And on top of that, odds are you’re closing the show with your best song.
So your best song coupled with the most informed adjustments.
Your ending ought to be great…and alls well that ends well.
Being the local band is great. If there’s a county fair, you get the call. A chili cook off, dance, beach party…you get the call.
And then someone starts another band.
Now you’re not the local band, you’re A local band.
Now you don’t simply get the call because because you’re the band. You get the call because you do something that the other band doesn’t do.
Multiply this scenario by tens of thousands.
Why do you get the call?
Right now the entire Spotify US Top 10 is Christmas songs. It’s all the ones you’d think would be there. The classics.
The only way to have a chance at getting in that Christmas club is to truly commit.
There have been a handful of artists recently who have made a real push to crack the Christmas song code. Putting out a Christmas album, pushing a single, doing a tour…and then doing that cycle a couple more times.
And they aren’t in the top 10. Not even in the top 50.
So if you do all the work but don’t get the Christmas hit, was it worth it?
When you’ve had the magic, the chemistry, the thing and then that particular season comes to an end, it’s easy to think that it will never come back. It’s easy to think that the extra special is a thing of the past. You had it once, you should be happy you even had it once but it’s not ever coming back.
On the other hand…Having the magic once before tells you that the MAGIC IS IN FACT POSSIBLE.
Having the magic once before is a gift. Not only for that particular season but to open your eyes to see that it’s a real thing that really happens. And it could happen again.
That’s what we want to make. We want to follow our instincts about a project and have our instincts and skills validated through connection with a large enough group of people.
We want our big contribution to be helpful, to lift others. And for ourselves to have done something difficult, faced a challenge, pushed through, overcame the odds and achieved an outcome that is uniquely ours.
Of course the question is how big is big enough?
The answer won’t magically appear to you. You have to dig into it.