Support!

‘I’m not blaming anyone, and I’ll only say it once, but it’s a shame that not even all my friends take the time to listen to the music we release. Just one time through this album would take 35 minutes of their time, and would go a long way toward making this endeavor commercially viable. If they took two more minutes to share the project with their circles it would increase the music’s reach exponentially, creating countless more opportunities for the music to find an audience. Maybe, their closeness to me personally makes the whole thing feel more amateur, more a hobby or just something that they don’t need to do anything about. Maybe they simply never see the posts about the music because of the algorithms on the platforms I use to promote it. Maybe they’re not really my friends. Maybe they don’t think about it at all and if I went out of my way to tell every single one of them individually to listen and share it they would. Maybe I have to make it pop somewhere else so when it comes back around to them it looks more legitimate. Who knows. What I do know is that in this age, the kind of support I’m asking for is essential to my success, and the kind of support I’m asking for is free, and I’m not the only one that’s doing this. There are lots of really talented people making really great things, and they’re all sitting at home wondering why their friends won’t give them that support. That’s a shame.

-J.P.