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• Papi papi song Patch#

It’s a sign that I’m a living, breathing creator who cares about his craft. That’s not a bad thing, and indeed it’s something I love about feeling intimidated or challenged by another artist. I think that this remark from John Darnielle disturbing you is a sign that it’s time to rethink your relationship to your art and mix up your influences. It’s rather silly and moving, isn’t it, JS? Does anyone need this painting of a Godzilla-size crane towering over a city holding a fish? No, but I decided it was important to me, and so I must do everything in my power to make it real. Bringing what’s in there (your brain) to out here (a song or painting) requires negotiation, compromise, and problem-solving. The artist’s role, when seen through this lens, is that of an interpreter or a translator.

Papi papi song Patch#

To me, each vision is an emergency, one that reliably introduces a new set of challenges - why does the face I just drew feel slightly off? How do I make this patch of feathers look iridescent? Why do I draw like I’m making Sonic the Hedgehog fan art in 2007? I think that agita really pushes a lot of people into honing their craft, learning new tricks, and dedicating untold hours to practice. One of the most unpleasant, frustrating states to be in is one in which you know what you want to express but feel like you don’t have the tools or the skills to express it. What do I want art to give me? What do I want to say? What do I want to make, and what are some habits I could cultivate to make the process easier? Ignoring you calling 33 “old,” one thing that’s helped me is to de-emphasize the “performance” of individual pieces, like the number of likes and retweets and print sales, for example, and to focus instead on what my relationship to art looks like more broadly. But I also think there’s more to it than whether or not you’re being received well by a certain number of people (trust me, the number you want will just keep getting higher). It can definitely feel like a zero-sum game where only a select few make a shit ton of money and everyone else has to starve for their art. We unfortunately live in a world that doesn’t support the arts near enough. To get to the heart of the matter, though, I think we should talk about how you perceive metrics in the context of your songwriting. I wouldn’t say I’ve met a confident, secure artist. I’m picking up on an insecurity in your identity as a writer and a creative. It only makes sense to take some curatorial efforts toward that end.īut I think your letter is expressing an anxiety beyond wanting to switch up your influences. What we think about, what we expose ourselves to impacts our art. It’s kind of like a cauldron, and our daily experiences get thrown into it every day to produce a brew. Am I doing this right? Should I be doing it completely differently? Should I even be doing it at all? Of course, this is an imperfect process, and so confusion arises. We want to bring different things into the world and we have different ways of getting that done. I’ve given a lot of answers to this question over the past couple of years, and so I can confidently say that most of these answers have been hooey and I really don’t worry about having a process that much.Īll due respect to this Mountain Goat, but everyone has a different approach to their art. I am an artist who has been asked a fair number of times about what “my process” looks like. I finally have some actual expertise in this specific arena. But God, I would love to think about literally anything other than comparing myself and my art to other people. I understand in my brain that comparison is the thief of joy, and I’m resolved to keep writing my weird little songs and putting them out into the world. I can’t help comparing myself to my friends who’ve played packed shows, who have “numbers” on their SoundCloud pages, or even just have a handful of listeners who aren’t their personal friends. I just turned 33, and I feel old and stuck, and I can’t help thinking about how futile it feels to make art without an audience. I’m a songwriter, and at this point I don’t think I’ll ever make it big, whatever that means. That sentence has been banging around in my head, with the accompanying question: What should an artist think about? I just read an article in which a musician said they’d never make an attempt at engaging with TikTok virality because they have “old-fashioned ideas about what an artist ought to be thinking about” (it was John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats, in this excellent piece ).