Hello Hello Hello! Drum and bass is an amazing genre that has intruded literally all of artists inspiration musically, and has gone practically famous through every Genre of music in existence. And hey. I'm gonna complain a bit about music. My actual next post will be about Drum and Bass. Trust the process. Now that I'm officially an artist with a couple of solo projects on my belt, I want to keep my own soul of intention with this blog, but also want to be fully honest about my perspective on the state of music and art as a whole. So to sum it up basically. Art is Dead. It's pretty much hopeless. Hear me out. So back in the day, when I was around 13 and had no worries in the world but whether someone had a decent taste in music or played runescape or not; It was a time where I fondly and deeply remember finding new music all of the time. And being entranced by it. I was absolutely stunned and amazed at the tens of 20s of artists I would find Through YouTube everyday aswell as Pandora. YouTubers such as Mrsuicidesheep. I found a ton of music through them. Before I get off on a tangent of my conspiracy of the replacement of MrSheepy with some soulless robot who no longer cares about the soul of music, let me get to the point. The want and need to find new music as a 13-15 year old was VERY successful with YouTube and it's algorithms. Noweadays the ONLY place to find and discover new music seems to be soundcloud, and that's only for new upcoming artists such as myself. And that's if you are desperate enough to move from the cult of music artists that spotify has created for you to worship, based on their fake content-less image they molded of you. Probably on purpose too. Most of the artist which of, are absolutely trash I'm sorry to say. I rarely ever stumble upon an artist I like on there nowadays. And yes it has been forever since I've used Pandora, but I doubt that's much different now. I'll check it out tomorrow just to confirm my own observations. The system of algorithms that spotify as well as YouTube runs on today seems to only favor showing you related artists of another artist, only if they are trending: related label wise, share each other's socials and trend in roughly the same monthly average of listeners as them. Which is another tangent, as I don't believe the monthly listener is even accurate. YouTube on the otherhand only shows what you already have listened to in the past, or what's on your Playlist. Absolutely nothing new mostly. No longer are the days (And trust me there were those days), where music artists are found and discovered through genres, based on the similarity of their sound and genre/style of music creation. Which makes it look hopeless in the eyes of the beholder, because it appears as if there is only 5-10 artists that you as a listener would ever enjoy listening to in your entire life, the rest is just rubbish. When in Reality there are (and was) many multifaceted and beautiful underground artists that you now will never find. They are burried so deep under these "trending" artists and the Chinese algorithms they are enslaved to, and how are you even supposed to discover these great unknown artists? You don't. This is an most unfortunate and dystopian dillema for music. I never thought when I was a teenager growing up with the internet: that it would have devolved from the connecting and truth soul searching platform of discovery that it was, to the plastic and systemically engineered piece of trash covered with cookies, ad revenue, and personal data farming that now exists today. We can blame it on everyone, but mostly blame it on the way they at some point hooked us and decided to change the algorithms of finding new things into a more view and hashtag based system rather than the natural yet beautifully chaotic festival of discovery the internet used to be for music as well as everything else. Back when you could search up the word "you" On youtube and get endless amounts of creators content instead of the top trending topics currently owning the word "you". If your 26 you likely remember greatly and nostalgicly what I am talking about. I guess all we can do now is wallow in the times of the old, or we can become aware and deal with our new tools as artists to get recognition that is now quite a bit more difficult to do without being a morally sad POS artist that just farms off of bots and ends up charting and then making all of us force feed eachother mediocre artists pretending that they are the best music we've ever heard. (And no I'm not talking about artists that I personally share and repost on my soundcloud, I'm talking about as the general public and mainstream). All we have now as options are; begging to be on Spotify Playlists (who the hell even searches and listens to Playlist, what is this the dark Ages?), Reposting your music with repostexchange, OR you have the other option of spamming every single person or famous artists Instagram profiles and YouTube comment sections advertising your own music. Or you can turn to the old fashion route of burning your music on a shit ton of Walmart cds and giving it to random strangers on the street. But don't bother trying to sell them as everyone noweadays for good reason will probably just assume you are some homeless beggar who doesn't want to actually get a job and work for their living. And also those same artists that we used to love, devolving into bland and uninteresting aftershadows of what they used to be. And no I'm not talking about those artists that don't become stale and actually take risks and evolve their music and talent. I'm talking about those artists that "settle" for what their signature sound was and is, and refuse to budge, thus creating a burnout within their own soul that puts out the fire that fueled their art creating oceans of disposable art. I'm not talking about artist that have created so much music that they feel that they are done, that's all personal choice. What I'm trying to say is, stop releasing your crappy/unfinished music in order to become irrelevant/or releasing devolved versions of your own music. Thus flooding us with your force fed trending trash albums that we get to then here on Kiss FM The next morning while we debate on killing ourselves at work the next morning. We all would rather you just not release music anymore if you've given up. Not only does it make us sad, but it ads to an already hopeless reality that we all get to experience day to day, which is the opposite of what music is supposed to be. Just leave us with the sacred art you created and be on with the rest of your life, and let all of us who actually still care about the art continue on the legacy. I promise we won't hate you for it, and in fact the opposite we'll even greatly respect you for how much you stuck out as an artist and impacted the culture around you in your immense time as a full on artist and dedication to the authenticity of your craft. Not gonna name names of course. And if you don't want that, what made you feel the need to share your work in the first place? You wanted to listen to it in your own room alone all by yourself and never share it with the world? I highly doubt that's the case. It's okay to admit that you want to share your hard work with the world. Are you that narcissistic that you've devolved into deeming yourself so special that anyone else listening to your music is so below you that they no longer deserve the pleasure of your blessed art. Grow up and stop dick sizing and maybe own your craft. So what that you aren't making as much money. And yeah we all are depressed with how the world has worked out. I've alone been through countless existential crises's, and I'm sure everyone here reading has at least gone through one by now. The only way anything is going to get better is by acknowledging there's a problem and using your god given voice and music to express yourself.
- GuthiX
