I can genuinely say, the most talented, most badass songs I’ve ever heard – are not publicly available.
Why?
Because the artist working on it is still tinkering with it.
Years later.
And somehow everytime they show it to me again – it sounds worse.
I’m sure you’ve heard that song as well.
From someone you know who is so unequivocally talented and so unequivocally unknown.
I’m sure we’ve both heard the same excuse.
“It’s almost there. Just wanna mess with [insert completely unnecessary revision].”
It never gets ‘there’.
Wherevere ‘there’ is.
The music isn’t the problem.
They are…
…And what our industry has convinced us to be.
The world portrays us music makers as someone who must constantly refine, edit, and mess with stuff until it’s absolutely, undeniably, perfect.
Anything less than is not a true artist.
What is this standard? Where did it come from?
I mean – Leonardo Da Vinci said “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
There is no perfection in art.
Yes, we can tweak something endlessly. That’s easy. Overthinking is in all our 2nd natures.
What is hard is saying “It’s enough.”
That’s the mindset I’m on when working on a track. “Enough.”
The world’s greatest songs were typically accidents. They were “enough”.
Demos that somehow ended up on the album.
“Like A Rolling Stone” is one of the world’s most influential classic rock tracks. And Bob Dylan didn’t even want it on the record. He thought it was trash.
Grimes first record that went viral she was on amphetamines locked in a room for a week, exported on garageband and uploaded straight to spotify without showing any of her friends. Just wanted to make some tracks.
I’m here to tell you – your music is enough. Put it out.
Stop with the endless tweaking.
It. will. be. fine.
Put out a lot of music. Monetize it. Repeat.
You do that enough – you’ll be able to make music for the rest of your life, at any time of the day – without a boss.
That’s it. That’s the whole game.
@thatpitchmusic @markeckert
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