Hey everyone. I regret to inform you that Growth has been cancelled. I was falling way too behind on the daily release, and while it was a lot of fun at first, I looked at the sales, the lack of soundcloud comments, the overall fan interaction end of things and it felt very one-sided. It did not seem worth the work. Does this mean Im quitting music all together? No. While that would be a good economical choice at this point considering how much money I pour into this career, and how much I tend to get back, I am just going to go back to releasing the 2 remaining original 7 instrumentals which also, other than a handful of streams from other countries, has also not sold a single song or album. This might be the end of the Beyette project, I am not sure. I do know its hard to keep motivated. Every documentary you watch about musicians and how they got started theres eventually a part of the documentary where someone doesnt really take them self seriously and everyone is begging them to make another album, or pursue a music career. I havent really ever had that demand feeling. I just really enjoy making music, and I enjoy listening to music on a more intense level than I think others do. To me it is not worth it to keep trying to jump that hurdle. Musicians are in a desperate position right now. Some bands cant even give their music away, think of the stunt U2 tried to pull. They are a pretty big band. People wont even accept music as a gift. Music isnt nurtured as something sacred anymore. For me the biggest thing I heard from friends and family were that they didnt have any time to listen to the songs. People dont have 3 minutes in a day to listen to a song, and repeat the process, and not just any song a song their closest friend has made? I dont want that kind of desperation in my life anymore. This whole record has made me feel pretty desperate. I want to focus on being a good member of society. To contribute in a way where people feel good about giving me their attention and feel better about paying me for some service I provide. Trying to channel everyone back to my main goal of music seems like a very impossible feat. To all those who have paid for records in the past, and more importantly to anyone who really really listened to a song over and over and got a lot out of it for themselves, I really appreciate your support. The goal of most of my music is to transfer emotion and thought to the listener, to give people chills, to make them feel funny inside. While I wrote songs for a record for 5 years, i dont think anyone was really blown away like I had hoped to do. My goal was to overwhelm with awesomeness, but in conversations with friends and family Im usually the one bringing up my music not them so its begun to feel selfish. Not everyone knows this, but You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. In my case this has been 14 years of trying to get other people interested in my music. What will I do after the last two instrumentals are released? Im not sure. No amount of marketing is going to make the only people I would actually want to care care, so even if I were to become a millionaire with the miracles of marketing, id be just another lonely celebrity that has become obsessed with themselves because they didnt bring their friends and family along, and just got used to taking everything for themselves because they did everything by them self. I guess apparently, every artist needs a muse, and no one has really felt like a muse for the whole release. I dont think any of these songs changed a single life. To me that is selfish and I cant do it any longer. Everything on soundcloud and bandcamp that is Growth-related has been publicly removed and after I take things down from reverb nation and google play, Growth will be completely unavailable. Im very sorry. I am also removing myself from being an admin from this page because it shows me how many people scroll without interacting which is pretty demotivating, and I have two records to mix. Again thanks to the few, but unfortunately you were too few.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:29:50 +0000
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