As a recording artist or music producer or audio engineer, talent may get you through the door, but it's your work ethic and character that will keep you there.
A$AP Rocky ignored Tyler the Creator for five months and yβall surprised? If I had Rihanna with me at home nobody hearing from me for at least five YEARS.
My favorite beats of all time are loop/sample-based. Maybe you can play 5 instruments well, but can you make a "simple" beat like "Song Cry" that captures conveys an emotion and captures millions of ears?
If the music makes an impact, that's what the listeners respond to.
Being a producer is really a full time job. Making beats, making content to showcase those beats, exporting stems to post your beats for sale, making artwork for your beats, YouTube videos for your beats. Shit is exhausting
I hate how creating music, has effected me listening to it. I feel like I canβt even enjoy music unless Iβm under the influence now cuz Iβm so technical with the way I hear it smh