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If you could only have someone listen to one of your songs that you've created to really showcase the type of artist/person/etc, what song would it be and why?
🐅WHO DEY🐅
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Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
@User12261990 fav place to write/create currently
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@DariaWB GSP series has and always will be underway. I’ve been writing it since high school with my buddy Dan from Sachem days. We’re still prepping for pitch land and hacking away.
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So which song on the new album is going to be my new fav? Blu has been my girl since I started listening to your music in 2018
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@jake.meredith_ I agree with Jon - we can't really avoid "doing the dance" at this point because so many folks are trained on algos, and the industry really relies on them (a little too heavily IMO). It won't feel like BS if the marketing is an extension of the art and music you're making. Make some kind of cool art or take some unique we've never seen before on these platforms and commit to that bit and be consistent, but then really utilize any kind of audience you're building to drive people either online to places like this (Discord and Reddit forums are your best bet for just starting out, livestreams like Twitch if you're keen on performingg) or drive them offline and figure out ways to interact IRL.
You got this dude!
@danpurcell Yeah, honestly that being the case I’m just choosing to look forward to it and being able to be creative with the video and storyboarding process as well as the music behind it instead of dread the current state of advertising. Just gotta learn to walk that tight rope of being myself while also selling myself/my brand. I think before I was leaning too into the idea of selling myself instead of choosing to have fun with what I was making and showing my authentic side. The creativity and eye catching-ness was there, but not so much the authenticity which I think was what made it so soul sucking in the moment (though still a fun process). Now that it’s kinda been affirmed that to some extent that’s the current state of advertising and audience building, I’m definitely looking forward to see how I can get heads turning and break boundaries in both the music AND short form video side of things lol. Once I complete the album I’m working on I have a bunch of acapella arrangements I made from the Human Condition that I’d love to compile and film video for Jacob Collier style, so I think that’ll be pretty neat too. Looking forward to this next chapter, just gotta build my resume per se by making connections and finishing my current album. Also working to build a small audience to start and gradually grow over time through forums (like you mentioned, Discord, Reddit, etc) instead of only throwing stuff out there onto major media. If I’m playing the game Imma be strategic abt it
"You're whole life's in the Hand of God"
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Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
@User12261990 Who would you want to collaborate with? Personally, I would love to see you work with Chappell Roan!
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Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
@User12261990 JON I NEED YOUR WISDOM! I really want to make music and produce music for others. I feel like you're to most honest down to earth artist I know so I just wanted to ask the following: How dangerous is the music industry when it comes to keeping your morals and identity? Is it a constant intense battle or is there a way to find a safe space while still making music that reaches millions?
Hope that makes sense!Jefferson Murdock
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Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
@User12261990 Fr how did you develop your drum pocket, I’ve never heard any music like that. Is there any artists with that sound that inspired you?
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Any opportunities for meet and greets or verified fan things in the future/on tour? I agree w avoiding the algorithm and am so terrified of not getting tickets/getting to hear this new stuff live after being convinced for years that my 14 hr campout for GSP was the only one I would get to do.
This album is gonna take off in ways we all hope and yet are scared for, is there a way to do secured codes for a presale based on total listening time or something of that nature? -
Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
@User12261990 Hey Jon!! Wondering your thoughts on attending community events or any particular missions you’re really passionate about at this point in your life (illness, homelessness, justice, etc) since money is NOT the key to wealth
Shameless plug but I’m a music therapist at a local children’s hospital in Nashville; we’d love to host you to visit our music city in-hospital studio and meet some of the kiddos! -
Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
@User12261990 who is/was your biggest inspiration music-wise?
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Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
@User12261990 Jon, do you recall a lost mixtape called "Looking for a place to land"? If so, do you still detain the songs of that mixtape?
Enzo
beautiful mind, you already know
still trying to find out what happened to Looking For A Place To Land and Michigan Sky (also trying to convince Jon to leak Break These Walls) -
Recently moved to Germany and would LOVE to see you here. Got into you just a few years ago and your music is my comfort fixation lmao. Love you and your work 4 ever
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Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
@User12261990 Welcome back!! Happy to have this space
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Designing this forum is also a way for me to be able to interact with you guys but at a pace that’s healthy for me. (Plus all the data is ours no algorithmic BS)
I ain’t doing no TikTok dances to push the music lmao we already have a community bigger than most artists.
Yall deserve a space different than the usual rat race BS.
I’m goana take time each week to sit and answer some questions. Let them fly here.
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@User12261990 I can never thank you enough for all the music and inspiration you’ve given people. Without your music I’m not entirely sure I’d be around. I listened to your music for hours helping me deal with heavy stuff and it’s always been my peace and ways to calm me down. I was only in highschool when I got introduced to your music and I’ve never stopped listening since than. You were my very first concert and i waited years just to see you first. So thank you so much you mean a lot.
