In five years or ten or twenty years you’ll have a child old enough to understand a little bit about the world.
Enough for you to play them Hey Jude for the first time and they either fall in love or roll their eyes.
Along with Hey Jude you’ll show them your music too. The best songs you ever worked on, some that never got released, some you wrote for your high school sweetheart.
And you’ll tell the stories of how the songs came to be, the funny or weird things that happened when you were tracking them in the studio.
This will be magical.
You know what you will not show them?
You will not pull out your old catalog of Tweets or Instagram posts and show them “See, this one got 500 likes!…And this one got 525!!!….and THIS one almost got 600!!!!!!”
You won’t show them the magic of Hey Jude and then show them the really awesome Likes and Follows you had once.
Your music is a body of work you can (almost) always be proud of. Both now and when you show your kid.
Keep making great music. I hope you get the Likes and the Follows too, but keep making great music.
Your (future) kid and I want to hear it.
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