💬 when i’m making a song or planning a performance, what standards do i use to find the perfect balance between popularity and the colors of my own originality?
🐹 honestly, you could probably make music instead of me and it would work out. wow, you’re asking me such a deep question. “between the line of popularity and the colors of my own originality…” like this, the standard… well, you could divide the standards from that kind of perspective, but for me… there's no real distinction. i don’t actually separate the two. it’s just, i truly made these songs for you, and that's what i'm giving to you. the songs that went into the ride or die album… i wrote them from the bottom of my heart, purely hoping that you all would like them. really. that’s right.
remember when jake shared the story of how they got layla 🥹
#jake: when we first got layla, it was something that was decided at once. my mom’s friend, i’m not really sure the relation but someone we knew had to move but the place was in new zealand and that person had a lot of dogs and unfortunately they couldn’t bring all the dogs. so they wanted to give layla to a good person.
#jake: i still remember that person as ive mentioned before he left it on a post it, layla’s name, how old she was, it was written in english. there was this once sentence it said “please play this song layla by eric clapton to layla.” eric clapton had a popular song called layla, he really wanted us to let layla hear that song so it left a deep impression on me.