Sunday the 4th of August 2024 and the title of today's reflection is going to be let's talk music. So like a lot of the things that I've been talking about like over the past couple of days if not the last couple of weeks have all centered around this kind of like well I wouldn't say
that all of it has centered around this notion but some of it has centered around this notion that initially when you kind of like play a song to somebody for the very first time, they're only going to take about 20
to 25% of the meaning, of the context and the overall message of the song. So effectively, they're not going to have the attention span to effectively absorb everything within the first listen. It's only after the fourth listen or the fifth listen or even into the 50th listen where somebody really begins to kind of like capture the full picture of you know the whole song like depending on kind of like you know the complexity of the writing the complexity of the structure the complexity of the message whether the artist was I don't want to use the word superficial but
superficial for a lack of a better way of putting it or whether the artist was a little bit more profound in their writing and like you know effectively I to memorable moment in a song. And it's kind of like easier said than done, and I wish I could kind of like give this explanation
a little bit more, a little bit more flavor because it's kind of like I'm speaking a bit vaguely at the moment, but effectively what you want is like, you know, if the odds are that in the first listen, in the first listen, there's only gonna be about 20 to 25% of the song
that's gonna be retained in somebody's head, try to create a moment that is memorable and try to make it the most memorable moment in the song It could be a moment that made somebody feel sad made happy made them feel happy made them laugh Made them made them giggle in the case of the song that I released recently or the latest song that I released called rapping it was the
Outro segment of the song that for some reason people seem to remember the most and it's the part when I was basically talking about how I wrote the song whilst I was still in prison and I was effectively entering my alter ego, my venal alter ego and I'm just making a comical joke out of a very bad situation. It's kind of like I'm basically talking about very graphic scenes that I've witnessed in prison, like somebody sharpening a knife or somebody trying to kind of like take their own life and me just basically effectively turning it almost into a comic or a cartoon that
was the most memorable moment and again like I kind of like to use this strategy when I know that people aren't effectively going to have the same attention span that I do when it comes to kind of like listening to music.
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