User talk:Tommyhawk09

"Life sucks then you die." Stop and try.

Deep Rooted Emotion
People have problems but work through them with that doers mentallity. Endless hours, constant demands to meet; it's replayed in their heads until it drives them mad. What evens it out is a person's expression of deep rooted emotion. Not to come across like Dr. Phil, but functioning at your higher level even in down time would be the biggest improvement you could make in your life. It's hard with our attention span to detail and the constant luring of media & entertainment makes it hard on most of the young to reach their greater potential. By the time they get out and see the real world some become so discouraged they give up all together. This seems to be having a greater effect on more lives than ever. Today, U.S. Unemployment rates are double what they were half a century ago and we all blame the big corporations that have their products made across seas, which you can disagree with all you want, but maybe what's contributing to all this is our culture's craze with having it now for less. In everything we do we look for the cheapest, most efficient, effective way of doing it. Practically applying knowledge in a particular area. Technology is improved in leaps and bounds in making all of our lives more instantaneous. Some take it for granted to the point they don't even have time to learn how it works.

How It Works
This is such a broad topic it's hard to interpret it as a whole. So let's talk about social networks, a communication connection with new auto updating news feeds and pictures shared between friends, friends of friends and everyone and they're spouses even if they wouldn't care to see it. Weaving together this small world we live in with penetrating but yet inviting questions that can tell you who someone is without even having the need to talk to them. Brilliant world we live in, how do we get around talking to someone and still be considered social? (at least that's my interpretation of the creators' objectives). We do it for the enjoyment we get from networking with people around the globe and (from what South Park idealized) peer obligation. Why is this issue even worth bringing up when a majority of the population will just simply ignore what's being said because it's contradicting a vital part of their lives? No matter how much you rant on about something that may be true, they already shut you out.

Do It
What is the future of the middle class? What is the future of art? That is the question I wanted to analyze cause I love music. I can feel art washing away, and it's not just from the radio. More and more artists are below the poverty line each year, forcing them to commit time to working other jobs. It's always better to have somebody doing their passion. Which in the business, I'd say that the opportunity costs were making it inefficient. It's hard to see the loss though, because it's usually explained as doing the grunt work, starting somewhere and proving yourself fully understanding at all times, because that is what makes a true artist? You could act like you knew the world was round from the beginning, but if you never saw it, would you believe it? "Maybe while waiting tables they'll pick up something and learn what the public wants to hear." These waiting jobs cause stress just like any other job. It could be understood that stress can help one create art through deeply interpreting struggles and shaping them into a release, but the more time with stress...

Art Can Never Die, but the People Around It Will
Art as a whole is being shuffled down to cold cash. It's cold because it doesn't have the warm cash, I'm talking about hearts. Free art is endless in supply, so that anybody who has a private computer at their disposal, can download free. Even the people who have money to trickle down take advantage of it because of our culture's misconstrued attitude about people's need for art. Artists have been reduced to beggers through the scheme of making it into a personal preference with catchy cliché capturing hook lines, "it's in the eyes of the beholder" and every person wants/expects to see it for free. Which why shouldn't they? With large selection that meets every situational feeling and personality belief; such a large supply makes it near impossible to even know a margin of the information about artists that's readily available in their CD's. This is causing a plateu, to what is defined by general public, as being a successful artist (A new artist comes up, another one fades). This constant scrutany and expectation for perfection loses sight of what really makes music what it is.

Expression
Flow, feel, emotions, fire, wind; this is how we relate. Even if you're not trying to, you are always expressing yourself. Even if you are dead people see your expressions. Expressing oneself can be gratifying, uplifting, and inspiring. It can open up the closed, find the lost, lose the theives; and all you have to do is "let be what is" and "the opposite". It would be hard to see blindly, that even the blind can see. Don't force it. Take a second, rationalize your objective, and feel what you're doing.

See the World
Artists are singularly globalized at a high rate today, in fact, anybody; even with a dime-a-day budget can promote themselves world-wide. Moments of fame and recognition seem to be in the dreams of most youthful minds, and like most say it, they'd give anything. They see the glitz and the pop of that world and they dream of one day too being up there, on that stage. They see the work as just another preparation for their goal, but then the realization comes that everybody else wants to be up there, too. This either drives them or eats them alive inside; and in today's business you have to use the art of selling.

Get Paid for Your Passion
It's a long process to become recognized and respected in this industry, to the point where its all you do, or all your team of reps do. Anyway, it's become an almost concrete process where artists are forced to take certain channels with shooting, promoting and touring, which if you think an artist like myself would be willing to do all this; you would be right. Those who don't are almost destined to fail with refusal, other than the lucky break outs that have a sound of their own, and that needle in the haystack only surprises you once. So you go through these long recording sessions playing a part until perfection, then its all you hear in your head for the next weeks, some even months. It's like a song on the radio that always speaks to you, but sometimes you don't always know what it's saying, then when you finally figure it out, it's like you grew as a person substantially and you give yourself a pat on the back and keep going. After the recording, basing on the dream of being recognized by a record label, it's time to promote. The best way to promote an album is to perform. Go out and share your experiences with people out there that want to hear what you've got to say. They want to take your wisdom and put it to use in their own lives. Making music for me is the transformation of sound and language together creating an real image or deeper meaning to my perception of life and people. It's like creating the ultimate snapshot to what I am feeling right now, even if it still resonates in years to come, it will never be the same as the original, so I choose to forget final mastered songs and move on to the next (Also hard to do when touring). They become more of a tribute to a memory; a glimpse of ideas embedded in time for referral use in another growing idea. I remember it, but it plays in me differently than before (which is why jamming out is key to music expression because it's never played the exact same. And I may be high, but I stand strongly behind all this.  The standards we hold ourselves to, and the things we are doing every moment, directly correlate with how we view our world.  We grow with what we feel and relate to, but too much of one thing is never a quantity of quality so we stretch ourselves out in all directions reaching for something, and what we can see, touch, hear, taste, smell is what we use to find ourselves, and the more vivid it is, the more memorable it is, and vise versa.  Which is part of the reason mainstream charts effect us so because we hear about them all the time in several different perspectives, by the time we listen to the actual song we hear what other people were saying more than what the song really said. You can tell the people that buy into reviews by the way they repeat an always similar description to every song, when they don't know what the artist's name is, or even the song title. We listen to these songs so much that the clichés are clichéd in so many different metaphors we can't even reference where they came from together. Fact is we listen to these songs so much they become the idea in our own heads and less of an influence on an adventure taken like everytime you burst out at something hilarious. So when the song comes on, emotions and estrogen fill you up to where you impulsivly start dancing/grinding, you know, the club music that people listen to with a reaction only to the words about sex, drugs, or violence. Even when a song with an actual pulse comes on they've retarded their senses to where they can't feel it.

Express Yourself
In my perspective, that is the most important thing in the arts and life self-expression, how it makes you feel. Mainstream music has great music because it does express people's general feelings sometimes changing a culture with it, but most of the time it gets lost in the time period as being a loved song by everyone, but one that lost it's weight in the words. I'm not saying that if a song can reach a large mass of people that it can't be enjoyed because a great song is always going to be a great song. The song has to be written from inspiration stemmed from personality and expression; not because a topic needs a song written about it. Ex. I love sex, I'm gonna write about you, "the way your booty calls me, I always pick it up quick, now you say hello to my dick". Its vulger, granted probably not the best choice of wording from a human being's standpoint, but it takes a cliché and adds a metaphor and some visualization that every girl can enjoy, and makes somewhat of sense. When the idea doesn't have a resonating/overarching meaning to how we take in a situation then we lose the search for the deeper meaning and the words just keep blabbering on, all you do is sit there hearing these chords that put you in a four-sided box and you wait till the chorus comes in and sing along, powered by the words(winning), probably cause you can remember the lyrics, then when the song is over, everything in your mind has flushed out and you're at peace. Either this song is the most brilliant piece of art on the planet or you're borderline insane! When you're in a state of meditation from a song that is aggressive against relaxation then you know your life is pretty fucked up! If a song doesn't sound good then it better have some crazy fucked up, trip of realitic ideas. Otherwise you will be the playlist skank and will never have as much fun as everybody else is having and isn't that what this is about? --Tommyhawk09 (talk) 05:14, 13 November 2011 (UTC)