WHY IT FEELS GOOD TO MAKE MUSIC PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT TO HEAR
It took me two years to generate my first $25 in royalty payments for my licensed music. It was just some boring ambient electronic stuff that I started experimenting with during the pandemic, mostly as a way to calm myself down. I wasn't making a concerted effort to make money, it was more of a "let's see what happens" approach. Nothing really happened. When AI music tools appeared in 2024, I found myself with a brand new way to get my song ideas out there. I already had a huge stash of lyrics stored away in un-posted blogs or on scraps of paper in a box. Song lyrics or concepts I had come up with going back to junior high or early high school. AI tools allowed me to flesh out these song ideas in a way I would have never been able to do on my own. In a far more robust variety of sounds than I would ever be able to do on my own. However, people still weren't super interested in listening to what I had to say. I took a bit of inspiration from a song I saw going vir...
