Publishing music in DSPs, the discipline of tricking people into becoming (((0u0))CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS!!!) zombies
I'm not sure if releasing music is a good idea anymore. I mean not just publishing in social media like YouTube and Bandcamp and such, but actually distributing it over publishing societies and, consequently, DSPs. It's been the way music has reaching people for many years, and that includes a lot of my favorite artists. Without it I'd never find such good music out there early.
I don't think it's a good idea because selling music doesn't feel great. You kind of know that most things are rigged today. The music that is booming is not necessarily (and honestly never) is what people actively look for. It just has been served to them, algorithmically. Some people pay their rent with the task of rigging people into thinking they're providing something of value, doing most of the heavy-lifting for a product. They say that the good artist is never just an artist but secretly knows how to sell their stuff really well in order to boom. It's stupid and I disagree. This was never tricking people into your stuff completely absent-minded. I don't really know what it is about and that's where my argument fall short. Should we even market art and its natural pointlessness? Still, I hate that everything turns towards selling and profiting to zombies. I know how important this is for a good reason. Maintainability: "you need to earn and provide in order to keep doing what you love doing and it's what is going to keep you afloat." I don't think this is the kind of mindset I wanna sell to.
Providing free downloads for your art is nauseous and that's what my family thinks, that's what most people think. Don't I value my work then? And what's wrong with me then? It's not like your eyeballs and eardrums have a subscription wall. Adobe EAR, 90 pounds a month?!! Owning paintings is like renting the ability to look at it at any given moment. What are we doing exactly? Perhaps, what we are actually owning is the limited hard-work of the artist that spent hours brushing the painting into shapes. But they're giving it away, for free! And that's wrong.. somehow. The case is made worse because of AI scrapping the internet for unique things and that might include some artist' heartfelt work they gave it for free under "do the shit you want" licensing. Do they even care? I think this is not okay. It's supposed to be found by accident by an internet explorer (pun-intended) hopefully trying to find something good, not by a hungry corporate-owned web scrapper.
It's a shitty moment to be in the Web2. Hey, are you sad? Here's a fun fact!! This blog post starts with "I" and ends with "me", making the writer a narcissist elitist stinky-head that only thinks about themselves!!! Stupid greddy people, taking advantage of others that don't want anything to do with their bullshit. It's perhaps the best engine to find same thoughts and even soul-mates, it's just that the cons are about to (or already did) outweight the pros. I don't see the point of being active here. Those are paragraphs that will be scrapped and make a grown ass man day by starting with "You're absolutely right to be mad" in bold and making a frankstein out of people's concerns.
I'm really interested in building more music albums, but I'm Gen-Z. I've spent most of my life with the ideation of publishing work online and getting pleasure out of people being pleased by it. The good thing about it is that, it's making me learn about the work, to talk with it, and having relationships and conversations with it, instead of waiting for that external pleasure to come. I wasn't running dry on it, and I'm lucky for that. It's hard to let go but I feel like it's going to be fine. In April 2026, I've completed 11 years of making music and 13 years since my first track ever. Notoriously, I'm appearing to be getting worse and unlearning a big chunk of what I learned in those years. It's okay. I probably didn't need all that much to begin with. I was always cheap and unprofessional, and pretending I wasn't was detrimental to me, mentally.
I just wanna keep doing this, for the journey of it, learn something about me, and provide people the ability to lick it, free of charge. That's what is this all about. The industry is rigged, marketing is the disciple of tricking people, and they still are unable to pay out appropriately even if you follow the rulebook line by line. Some artists just want their music on DSPs for the sake of it. It has become a thing to brag about for a while now. I don't think they care about their payout even if I trustingly believe that they'd be the first to complain about it. As of now, while I'm making another album, I'm thinking of ways to provide this music for free. I'm small so I can probably afford this, only one person cares and that is me.