the more I work in the music industry, the more I can see clearly just how ‘easy’ it is to make it in here. It’s really easy. It’s fucking infuriatingly easy. All you need, is all the time in the world. If you have all the time to write, perfect, produce, do press, design and print your own merch, go knock on every media outlet’s door, talk to radio stations on drive time morning radio when most people are listening, by not being at work, if you can keep going to shows every night and not have to worry about getting home far away or about how you’ll pay your rent or what you’ll eat on tour that’s not utter junk, where is safe to sleep at night and if you have a minute to vet motels and hostels for bedbug reviews.
The more present you are in the music industry (probably the entertainment industry in general) the easier it is for people to recognise you— and got that, you’ve got to give it all the time you have. If you’ve got that kind of time, it’s so easy to make it in the music industry. Enragingly so. More on this later, I have a work call in 15 mins
