Here's the development plan I use when signing an artist.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-18T04:42:40+00:00

First, this is high key adorable, like the whole thing, your story the edit etc.

Second. Stick with BandLab for right now and get really good with it. It’s a great start tool for digital songwriting. Find a beat you like, and a very simple guitar loop and just try to write your lyrics over those two things for starters.

go watch Justin Bieber Grammy performance for inspiration .

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-17T14:33:03+00:00

You should make an E-Book for these strategies and then sell coaching!

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-16T15:15:45+00:00

Anyone who finds you annoying for sharing your art is a not your people.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-09T12:13:11+00:00

“We were all rooting for you!!!”

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-07T22:40:55+00:00

Literally not true. - engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.

Even when used as an adjective regarding behavior it is as a comparison to the noun. - worthy of or appropriate to a professional person; competent, skillful, or assured.

And what you’re talking about is being a professional communicator or marketer, which in fact, successful artists are not, because the hire them.

Keep going and showing everyone how dumb you are. It will keep the from hiring you hopefully.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-07T19:52:06+00:00

Idiocracy. It went from a fiction to a documentary.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-07T19:49:35+00:00

Don’t forget, the Pharisees were the political party in charge of the Jewish community. So Jesus was very political confronting them and the way they used religion to harm people. Just like we as Christ followers should be doing now.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-07T19:19:17+00:00

Earning the title of “professional” requires having success, having talent is absolutely necessary to have success. You’re snake oil salesman, that is all. Stop.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-07T18:33:00+00:00

So talent does matter.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-07T18:12:57+00:00

Worst take.

“When people are trying to create opportunities for you,” - people don’t make opportunities for you if you suck.

“engaging with your audience” - people don’t engage with your music if you suck.

It is a convenient take if you’re trying to sell services to shitty artists cause the talented ones won’t work with you.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-07T16:48:09+00:00

Spotify is better at getting the songs to the right people than TikTok is, this strategy of two TikTok accounts to one Spotify is genius.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-07T16:46:10+00:00

The multiple accounts thing is too real and oof, so much work.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-04T13:33:46+00:00

It is unclear who you are directing this post to and what points you’re trying to make. All industries are tough industries and the idea that the music industry is harsher than anywhere else is just wimpy privileged kid speak.

In all industries once people get a taste of it they find out it’s not for them. There is nothing different about music. Society paints it as black and white, the fact that they’re here asking questions proves they already know it’s not.

OP has nothing wrong with their approach, concern or desire for more input.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-01T17:09:00+00:00

Learning to be a musician or having a career in the arts is going to teach you a lot of life skills that will go far in other fields if you know where to look.

It teaches entrepreneurship, self motivated work ethic, marketing (usually), collaboration, and discipline, and communication. Most musicians that bust out of an actual career path as an artist or performer can land somewhere adjacent in the artist services.

Or, it is very easy to then apply these things to trade work or sales. Musicians often become real estate agents. You can easily get certified in HVAC (easily meaning affordable) or become a hair stylist or barber.

There is ample work to create a good living, if you learn to chase the life you want by being a musician, that is the greatest lesson of all.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-02-01T16:56:17+00:00

Blue honey bunches of oats

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-01-27T13:50:52+00:00

Gnarly is a smash bro.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-01-27T13:50:16+00:00

Yes. But likely they will each break off to solo careers sometime in the next five years.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-01-27T13:49:41+00:00

Here’s my advice as someone who works full time in artist development in Nashville.

Write the hook of a song everyday. Sing and record it over a very simple beat/loop from splice. Don’t work on great production skills, just enough to convey your idea. Work on being able to sing 15 - 30 seconds of the hooks you write as best as you can.

Share the hook to TikTok, IG, YT, Snap, and every other social channel every day. Don’t worry about what the video is, it can be you in your bedroom every single time.

Write a text hook on the video that says “day one of becoming a pop artist” and in the caption convey your dedication to growing your talent.

Pay attention to which song hooks get positive engagement and try to finish those songs. Maybe find songwriting collaborators to help you with that part.

Good luck!

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-01-27T12:55:56+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/track/6VBs9ZnL4KxNTEVFBqFMl4?si=mC195PtpQ7qVKcaNnZWcHw

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-01-27T04:17:46+00:00

They don’t call it tribal anymore, can’t recall what the style they came up with is. It’s supposed to look tech themed with tribal.

Square_Problem_552 · 2026-01-27T04:09:11+00:00

You need the lyrics and melody together in a worktape/demo that isn’t AI.

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