Sunday the 8th of September 2024 and the title of today's reflection is going to be Minding My Own. So effectively I'm in the process of minding my own music. Now as difficult as it may be for many people to kind of like assume, as difficult as it may be for anybody to believe at
this point, like you know it is effectively our job to make sure that when we communicate and when we share our music that our music breathes or that our music has some form of life.
Like nowadays with 60,000 to 120,000 songs being uploaded to Spotify every day and Spotify not being the only digital streaming platform available, places like Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon also being places where people can access an infinite catalogue of music. Music is no longer something that is a rarity, it's a commodity like sugar. People were very hyper about it, people hyped over sugar when it was first out and now it's kind of like you know people just effectively take it for granted. It's in everybody's soda cans, it's
in everybody's drawers or cupboards or whatever you want to think about it. Music is very much in itself also a commodity. But what do I mean when I say I have to mind my own and we as artists have to mind our own. So effectively I've had a song that's been out for about 2 months, it recently got up to 500 views. I did want this song to get to 1000 views within the first month, however because of
the lack of attention that I paid to it or the lack of consistency of attention that I paid to it, it only got up to 500 views now. This is something that I'm not unhappy about. I'm very grateful for this but however if I wanted to get that 1,000 views or if I wanted to get that kind of engagement and more importantly if I want people to understand the message I have to be able to communicate about it. These are things that I have to
communicate. I have to talk about the story of the song. I have to talk about the meaning of the song. I have to turn that song into something more. It is something that somebody can listen to for 3 minutes and 43 seconds because there is music to listen to everywhere all around somebody could just basically put their headphones on pay about nine pounds ninety nine a month and they've got music to listen to so you know my
song doesn't become like you know this thing that that happened you know from the moment in which I released it like it's something that I need to maintain on a daily basis it's a it's a song that I need to continue talking about in order for people to understand the message of the people to really become truly intricate with its meaning so that it becomes a song that people that effectively live with rather than a song that people listen to you for about five minutes only for them to forget the forget its existence within the next 10
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