Honorable South, tight video, great song!
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"The only way to predict the future is to create it now"
This was well worth the watch. Caines Arcade
Hits!
I’ve just been thinking. In today’s entertainment industry there’s so many ways to keep tab on how much popularity you’ve gotten. You check your hits, plays, likes, followers and it becomes obsessive. For me personally I feel like you get so caught up in those numbers that it starts to affect your music and you stop being a musician and turn into a PR.
It can get so deep for people that they think “maybe I should do this because I know how many hits it will get me”. Think about that for a second, imagine what lengths people will go for a hit. There’s rappers that made Trayvon Martin songs not for the cases sake but because they know it will get them more “hits”, that’s taking advantage of that family’s loss and using it for personal gain. Those people aren’t that much better than Zimmerman when you think about it.
Its like a drug ya know. Just another hit, to confirm what you know already, to help your insecurity, to make yourself seem more “official” to yourself. The truth is it was always there in the first place. Once you let go the need for “hits”, then you have time to focus on the thing that got you those “hits”, the artistry and hopefully your still developing so you don’t lose those “hits”.
I know that the record industry will most likely ignore my band for the length of our career. It has nothing to do with music. We don’t fit in any one box, like so many amazing musicians I know. So far in my life I have turned down private auditions and promised spots on X Factor, and The Voice. I…
Burning St Tammany Down by Saint Bell
King Yellowman, my favorite song. Rastafarie!…spell check lol
Inspiration
So, for a while I guess you can say I gave up on my solo project. Well I just had a epiphany. Maybe I shouldn’t give up. I decided to write new music based on my solo project. Solo projects are a true headache, so hard to get people down to back you up, its easy to get people to standby your side but really hard to get people to back you up. This time I want my music and my product to be more organic. More real. More blood and sweat. I’ve been struggling with other styles and instruments for too long. I’m drawing back my focus. Look forward to the next performance and upcoming release with Jeremy Phipps and the Outsiders.
Peace, Love and happiness from Mojo
Guest Speaker
So I spoke at a summer camp to these middle schoolers today about following dreams, my career and stuff….I’ve never been so nervous in my life. It’s funny how you could perform all around the world for hundreds different people and get in a group of 15 children and have butterflies like never before. Anyway, I had nothing prepared so this was serious improvising. How to keep 15 children entertained for 20 minutes? I still can’t give you that answer but I tried my best. A crazy thing happened, I got a little girl to volunteer to come up and attempt to play trombone. She came to my ear and whispered “I never did anything in front people before….I’m too shy.” It felt like looking into my 9 year old past. Then, I whispered back, exactly what I wish somebody told me. “Look, these are just people, they won’t bite you, you came this far just give it a try”. So she proceeded to play the trombone and everyone cheered for her. I’m glad I was apart of that, it almost sounds like a after school special haha.
~People are just people, they shouldn’t make you nervous -Regina Spektor
Peace, Love, and happpiness from Mojo
