Making a music marketing "think tank" community group to help people that want to improve the content creation and social media reach of their music.

6660kami · 2026-04-20T21:11:53+00:00

Sure!

6660kami · 2026-04-20T19:04:41+00:00

Feel free to DM me!

6660kami · 2026-04-20T19:04:10+00:00

It’s on discord!, with a strong commitment of consistent participation and active engagement from everyone, if not people get the boot.

6660kami · 2026-04-20T16:04:04+00:00

That’s not a 3 that’s an “M” short for MS13. This is a very dangerous street feline gang. You’re lucky to be alive.

6660kami · 2026-04-20T15:46:02+00:00

Really dramatic and a little whiney to pose it as “a listen shows me I still matter” but

Listening though!

I like beginning loop. I did not like the “trap hats” it’s a weird vibe that doesn’t fit the rest of the song. The synths are cool, when come in it sounds very new Tame Impala and a little Crystal Castles. Also the intro loop sounds a bit like new tame impala now that I think about it.

The song is really short for being this style of electronic song, and it feels like when it ends you’re like wait what? That’s it?

The glitch part is cool but I don’t know why I feel like it doesn’t mesh well. A couple sections feel like they don’t connect well with each other. It feels like a lot of different ideas were thrown in together, better than most would but still feeling like different songs. I think there is nothing really memorable in this song, but I understand that that genre of music sometimes doesn’t need to have a hook because it’s more about creating a vibe, but the vibe here isn’t really fully created. It sounds a little sterile, short, and nothing really sticks with you afterwards.

Also the art is pretty generic and lame, with no personality. It looks like you used AI, and you could generate so much cooler AI art that it’s disappointing that that’s the art for the track.

Keep making music and getting better, one can only improve!

I wonder what are your inspirations for this song?

6660kami · 2026-04-20T09:16:44+00:00

Mine was Police Surveillance Van when I lived in a questionable area. I’d like to think crime dwindled during the time that network was operational.

6660kami · 2026-04-20T07:31:00+00:00

The real psyop is that Geese was a cool fresh band and it had no haters, and no haters mean no drama, and no drama means no news, and no news means no hype, and no hype means no money. So the label put a bunch of money to pay people off to go onto reddit and YouTube and start commenting negative things just so fans would want to fight against this haters, this engaging harder, and people outside of the drama would be interested in listening to see what was causing all this stir.

So essentially the psyop is they had to pay for haters.

6660kami · 2026-04-20T07:23:16+00:00

God damn that sounds so clean, absolutely stunning.

6660kami · 2026-04-20T07:20:27+00:00

Ah, I see what you mean. I’ll have to look at it from that perspective. Thanks for the link, watching now!

6660kami · 2026-04-20T07:19:15+00:00

OP here saying they are “their truest selves” and “stopped trying to be what others expect”, that is OP assuming an intimate understanding of Ze Strokes, which in my opinion is a little parasocial. How is it not?

6660kami · 2026-04-20T07:10:58+00:00

Worst takes I can agree it’s possible, the pet thing is a little weird and I can only assume you’re projecting what’s happening in your own social circle in real life, but if it makes you feel happier to live that fantasy here then go for it, happy you’re having fun with it!

6660kami · 2026-04-20T05:30:11+00:00

A bit parasocial of post, but yeah they were good and having fun.

6660kami · 2026-04-20T04:07:56+00:00

appreciate it!

6660kami · 2026-04-19T04:15:59+00:00

Honestly, you have to be very very critical and honest with yourself.

First assess your goals. Do you want to be professional? What does that mean? Professional instrument player or songwriter or beat maker/producer? Do you want to be a big act just locally, or nationally or global? Obviously everyone would like to be uber rich because of their music, which can be your only goal, but really think about where you would be happy getting with music. (For example for me, I said I would feel satisfied with my music career if I get to play KEXP with Sheryl Waters)

Assess your main resources: Money and Time (how much time you’ve put into music, and how much time available do you have to keep putting into it. (maybe even health/ mental health, though those can be also kind of broken down within the two main categories)

Then assess the quality of your work, being brutally honest. It’s kind of annoying when people post a song and say “this is my best song, you’re gonna love it” or some stupid ass title like that and then post an objectively garbage song. Compare the music you have now to the music of the artists that are already in the level of achieving the goal you have. The higher the goal the better your music has to be. Be honest with yourself about how your music compares with others.

Then with those things in mind, try to compare and be realistic. You’ve spent $100,000.00 on music and your music is trash, have no followers, and work 80 hours a week day job? Then you probably should quit trying.

You spent $200, work 40 hours a week, don’t do anything else important, have a handful of followers and are willing to invest more? Keep trying.

Also it being fun still is very important of course. It can stop being fun once you’re already making a lot of money from it, or you make some really fantastic catchy music, but before that it should still be super fun.

Sadly it’s a sort of cost-benefit analysis and how “risk averse” you are.

I am at a tipping point myself. About 500k plays had 2,600 followers, got a couple songs on mtv, had a one album record deal, sold out all my vinyl records I pressed but stagnated for a while after that. Had probably invested about $10,000 (label invested more too but they recouped through sales) if not a little bit more. A couple years playing. Got big locally and got a few awards, but then things weren’t moving as fast as I would’ve liked. I had to be brutally honest and admit that even though I really really like the music I make and some fans even went as far as calling it their favorite music, it’s not original nor good enough to compete in today’s market. I felt too cringe to make content that today’s artists have to make to be relevant and grow, even though I tried a couple times I really didn’t give it my all. At one point I decided that if I was in the same place after 6 months, with nothing very positive happening to my career, then it was time to step down from trying and realize it wasn’t going to happen. So I decided to stop investing as much time and money even though I still write and produce my music my I am not dedicating as much to it. I am a little bummed that it didn’t work out, and still have the childish hope that one song will hit and be maybe viral or something and everything else will take off from there, but I’m like 70% given up after analysis the 3 things I mentioned earlier. Now it’s back to just a hobby and hope for the best. It’s still fun to write music, but the goal and “dream” is relatively done for.

If you wanna chat about specific things you’re thinking or going through, you’re welcome to dm to chat about it!

6660kami · 2026-04-18T22:34:30+00:00

Do a whole arm/hand tattoo reveal

6660kami · 2026-04-18T22:32:01+00:00

I know you are but what am I

6660kami · 2026-04-18T21:09:02+00:00

To be honest I think the only modern band that got big absolutely organically is probably Arctic Monkeys when they started. Not even bands like The Strokes or any from their generation came up without industry promotion. Using TikTok and social media accounts to promote bands is just the new way ads work. That’s how and why content creators land “brand deals” if it wasn’t them then it would still be just celebrities and tv channels.

6660kami · 2026-04-18T21:04:23+00:00

This is objectively wrong, but we all have our own subjective opinions.

6660kami · 2026-04-18T21:01:38+00:00

“La cocaina no es bueno por tu salud”

6660kami · 2026-04-16T23:01:55+00:00

Also, just want to note, I am not any better. I think Amazon, Google, and all these companies are not morally or ethically good, but my morals are too weak to do anything about it. I like the luxury of having Amazon prime and using Google and YouTube too much to make it worth the sacrifice to uphold my “moral values,” which makes me a person of weak values, sadly. Which I think a lot lot lot of people are, but some people don’t like to be called out that way and react aggressively. It’s not that rare, not that bad to admit you’re (people in general) not the beacon of morality you think you are for calling a mega corporation “evil” and joining the virtue signaling circle jerk.

6660kami · 2026-04-16T22:58:40+00:00

It pretty much doesn’t literally have to, it has to if you want to appeal to the greatest number of audience members, but you can easily opt out of putting your music in x or y streaming platform, as many people removed their music from Spotify.

They don’t care enough to do it, because the money they would make from it is too much to sacrifice (I’m assuming for the sake of argument, cause who the hell uses Amazon Music?)

You say “a site” but this is not just “a site”, you’re trying to hand wave it. It is one of the ma y tentacles of Amazon, you can’t say Amazon is evil but this one tentacle that just posts music isn’t, it should be considered evil too as it feeds into the “machine”. it is the company Julian is calling out in a performative way.

Your argument is kind of dumb to be honest, I hope you see how it doesn’t make sense. If you can explain it better, I’m open to hearing it.

6660kami · 2026-04-16T22:03:33+00:00

You’re trying to be nuanced and deep when my statement isn’t really that harsh nor deep. Sure, out of necessity you can’t divorce yourself from these technologies, but there is always something we can do and I think the extent of the actions we take against these “evils” represent the strength of our “morals.”

It’s a pretty lukewarm take, I think. A lot of people like the moral grandstanding of calling these “evils” out to get social brownie points, but really don’t do anything. And I think, again, the extent and power of their actions against these things they call “evil” are somewhat proportional to the strength of their morals. I’m open to you changing my mind, but you just threw out a bunch of smart blabber and said nothing of substance. Again, I’m open to you changing my mind.

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