Hayden Hollings

Artist for Earth & humanity, Vocalist, Psychedelic Therapy student 🍄‍🟫🧠

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

Grateful to be in @RelixMag this month! My song #Flotilla is an afrobeat-inspired/rock letter to America. It’s abt saying goodbye to “home”, evolving as we grow, experience loss, or face harsh truths. Written in a time of deep reflection after Trump was elected in 2016.

[relix @RelixMag]

The September Sampler features @SCI_Official, @dawestheband, @eggylive, @CouncilRing, @ash_noisemaker, @MissEager, @SteveFishergig, @KingllamaMusic, Falconeers, Derek Frank, 2 LOT, @tstorchmusic, @magnazeroband, @mb_and_tourists, The Young Yay, @RickshawLizard and Mother Hubbard.

[𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ @Grimezsz]

Like every artist I've ever met was in some point in a terrible label situation. The labels economic model is based on hits. U sign to a label because of the promise that if a song is going they can throw gasoline on it. No amount of advice seems to be able to convince enough artists to stop signing to labels cuz u rly do need to learn this first hand (even I did). But at this point it's almost like lobbying and super pacs in politics - it reduces the potential and rewards algorithmically safe music. They own huge chunks of like any distribution model - most of which are also algo based and reward sameness and frankly when I hear an artist I like followed by 40 other artists that sound just like them I start to lose interest. we've basically destroyed music journalism. And the abundance has actually sort of make everything feel less special.
The main music that can succeed is by theatre kids since they have higher pain tolerance and even exuberant joy about performing and therefore can thrive in environments like tik tok. And it is importsnt to keep space for this type of music

But man... I used to listen to so many local bands. There used to be a way more sustained amount of smaller artists. The musical middle class, as it were. This peaked during Napster era when we prob had the most meritocratic least gatekept music industry (you could be ugly too and still succeed. I miss that lol).

Now literal VC's are buying catalogues - every economic incentive in the world has lined up to actively dissuade new music and especially innovative music. The artists I currently consider the pantheon of modern innovators would have been a LOT more successful ten years ago.

It's interesting to me how undissected the economics of music are and how profoundly and negatively they are impacting music rn

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

[Acyn @Acyn]

Riley: Don’t tell me you give a shit about the middle class when all you are doing is shitting on the middle class

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

@MIAuniverse I just realized Gen Z feels saudade like we did about 80s music…and there’s *so much more* to find. All we had was @MTV & @VH1 !

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

Got a $600 bill for a 3-minute visit w @AtlanticHealth where the NP only took my vitals. She directed me to the ER. I had extreme vertigo. No one checked my ears. The US healthcare system feels like a weird joke.
#healthcarereform #medicalbills #healthcarecrisis #americanhealth

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

Feelings of despair & anger over #HurricaneHelene in #WNC. As we find out more abt our gov’t spending & activities, #ClimateCatastrophe, etc it all feels so fucking heavy.

This #playlist is giving me peace: Sound of Asheville, NC
https://t.co/5SYYzxkKz2

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

Sharing #SideSaddle—balancing my shadow, sensuality, and love for the occult with growing up Christian in the South. 🌓 Inherited trauma and the contradictions we carry—none of us are excluded from the patterns. #ShadowWork #SouthernGothic #HealingThroughMusic #InheritedTrauma

[Andrew G. Huff @AGHuff]

FTX was a vehicle used by corrupt officials to run interference on the gain of function, EcoHealth, WIV, US funded and training lab leak.

https://t.co/xMXwO58Cvf

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

LIVE: U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Halting Biden's Federal #VaccineMandates
My Dr. & nurse friends agree - these rollouts have violated informed consent laws & it’s esp INSANE to mandate it for children.
https://t.co/yclU05T252

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

For 4/20 💚🌳 I just signed a @lastprisonerprj petition: It's Time to Heal: Urge President Biden to Grant "Federal Cannabis Clemency". Sign here: https://t.co/KsyAJa5wC4

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

Here we go... #LaserRayUntil100K
Photo by Lilac Milk

[NPR @NPR]

A drilling company that operates in Texas and Louisiana told investors that the surge in natural gas prices — amid powerful winter storms — was giving it a major financial boost.

"Obviously, this week is like hitting the jackpot," CFO Roland Burns said.
https://t.co/QvvSHqNO8C

[Alen Champ @ChampChong]

This is happening in my city here in Australia right now in December 2020.

Post-covid festivals are here. We haven’t had a case of covid in the community for over 8 months. Life is back to normal thanks to everyone doing the right thing! 👍

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Here in Washington when we go to war: there's endless amounts of money

Tax breaks for billionaires: endless amounts of money

Corporate welfare: endless amounts of money

But when children are going hungry in America today, suddenly we don't have enough money. That's wrong.

[Born This Way Foundation @BTWFoundation]

As we all continue to protect our mental health + cope with uncertainty, it’s important that we #KeepGoing one day at a time. We must support one another + take action to prevent suicide. #WorldSuicidePreventionDay

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

@lyft when will u speak up abt what happened in Clayton County GA? Your driver was pulled over for a broken tail light, cops asked for a passenger’s ID, when he refused they put him on the ground & beat him in front of his kids.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

If you don’t believe in climate change, come to California.

This is from today. And is just a small part of the nearly 600 fires we are battling this week.

[Hayden Hollings @MissEager]

@JanetJackson I was just thinking of you both 10 min ago 😇

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

What is important is not so much how long you live as whether you live a meaningful life. This doesn’t mean accumulating money and fame, but being of service to your fellow human beings. It means helping others if you can, but even if you can’t do that, at least not harming them.