LilDicky – The Antagonist
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LilDicky – The Antagonist
The artist and the professional, on the other hand, have turned a corner in their minds. They have succeeded in stepping back from themselves. They have grown so bored with themselves and so sick of their petty bullshit
from Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
You know, the reason, the reason that I made the hip-hop records that I made, I made them the “wrong way.” I didn’t have the baggage of the “right way.”
from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
Natalie Audelo added
It may sound like I’m taking all this a little too personally, but I’m a songwriter who is engaged, at this very moment, in the process of songwriting. It’s a blood and guts business, here at my desk, that requires something of me to initiate the new and fresh idea. It requires my humanness. What that new idea is, I don’t know, but it is out there
... See morefrom Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #218 - I asked Chat GPT to write a song in the style of Nick Cave and this is what it... by Nick Cave
sari added
- But as the rapper Tyler, the Creator notes in an interview that lives rent-free in my head, promoting our work doesn’t have to be a chore — it’s an opportunity for us to honor what we worked so hard to make:
from Rethinking the unbearable weight of self-promotion
Barbara and added
- To take it a bit further, he teased out those traits saying that both artists and entrepreneurs...
“...Want to express themselves.
Want to do something differently.
Want to create something better than what’s ever been done before.
They are disruptive.
They live in the theater of risk.
They want to change the world...”from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Entrepreneur
Haley Helmold added
phoebe and added
when bob dylan sings, it feels like he’s singing for no one but himself. at least not trying to mold around his feelings / sayings so they’re pretty to others. he’s singing the things that hit on truth for him.
his strange rap song and the music video that goes along with it… is raw and even not super pleasant. but it has swagger. he’s saying random
... See moreandrea added