Thank you for including my songs "Debriefing" & "Gavroche" in this video! I've loved & learned from all your videos so far, so I'm honored. To whoever is reading this - wherever you are in life - as long as you're here there's time. Though this world will often disappoint us in as a many ways as it can with it's arbitrary distribution of both good fortune and horror, it can also be a canvas for the most amazing possibilities. Until you draw your last breath, do not give up on yourself. Trust your process. Trust your vision. Great video, again. Much needed advice as I'm balancing the acceptance of these truths, and a hastier subconscious version of me trying to deny them.
As someone who is 34 turning 35 this year, I spent years go into circles about my writing and comedy. I spent years listening to family and friends about “ getting a real job” and “ art doesn’t pay the bills” only to eventually tuning that noise out. I want to share a perspective with artists who may in the comments older. Although you are pursuing art at an age that’s not “ celebrated “ look at it as how much incredible experience you’ve gained. So many people wish they have life experiences to create from. I thank God I didn’t pursue standup at a young age bc I wouldn’t have shit to talk about. Now in my mid 30s, I have endless material to write jokes. You have time and you’re not too old to do anything.
thats the importance about creation. some A&R that has never created a day in his life is going to be the one that tells you to stop at 35? but God gave you the gift and the means to express it, so you do it. You dont tell a painter to stop painting at 75. You dont tell an actor to stop acting at 60. You dont tell a pianist to stop playing at 30. a novelist to stop writing at 50... so its miserably misguided to tell an artist, whether you sing or rap(which i now just call vocalists) to stop creating art. if you put the time into your project and it sounds incredible, the world will recognize it and appreciate it.
I didn’t write an original song into I was 30 years old. Now I’m playing in a band, composing for film and making my own music on the side. I’m 33 and still rising!
That's amazing! And very inspiring to hear. What made you finally start creating? Im 30 and ive played guitar most of my life at this point, and i love to be creative but my ideas never go further than a voice memo on my phone. I always felt uncapable of making music for real, even if i know that's not true. Instead of creating i obsess about improving my playing, which is kinda useless considering i'm just playing by myself and know no other musicians lol.
@@menamgamg i think at some point i gave up on being “good enough” and just focused on recording my ideas. It’s all very rough and has plenty of flaws but i just try to remember that none of that matters and to just write for me. I know you have it in you as well and as long as the song is meaningful to you then it doesn’t matter what other people think of it
@@mattymcfabb Thank you. I think perfectionism is definitely a problem for me and i always keep moving the goalpost of what good enough is. I'm aware that this behavior is a form of avoidance because I'm afraid of creating for some reason, but i don't know why i have that fear honestly and i know it's irrational. Maybe it's the fear that i will find i'm incapable.
Just hitting my 40s still feeling like a 20yr old, I realize the meaning of “it’s never too late”. Especially as a creative, your age DOES NOT translate your creativity. Even in this day in age, if you feel you’re “too old” for certain things, you gotta think that you’re already several steps ahead of your younger counterparts. If you’ve done your homework, then you need to take advantage of that. But with age aside, success in life involves seeing things that others haven’t seen yet.
Thanks for spreading your story and support on the page here. So great to see people resonating with this one, and the positivity that's coming out. Thanks for taking the time.
@@adriannaalba2649 Queen Latifah and MC Lyte are still hailed as queens. Nah, f-that, ‘queen’ gets thrown around to easily these days. They are the goddesses of hip hop. Then you got Lil Kim who paved the way for the queens of that raunchy/ratchet style which I’m personally second to. But in the male-dominated environment of hip hop, yes, the females have to work that much harder to make their mark. We got Nicki who’s prolly the oldest of that Lil Kim style staying relevant. But I honestly prefer to see more of that Latifah/Lyte style come back which I see in the likes of Rapsody, Young MA, and Mumu Fresh. Ultimately, what really matters is putting your heart and soul into your craft and people will see that. It’s terribly sad, especially for females having to “sell” themselves whilst putting their actual talent to the side.
I’m 58 now. I’m almost finished my second album. My first one was crap. I’m proud of this one. I doubt anyone will listen to it and that does make me wonder why I bother but creators must create… I’m also a huge Miley Cyris fan!
Just a couple of years behind you, and doing the same. Except I decided not to make an album, I've been using AI assisted video editing software to make lyric videos that I post to TH-cam. Like you, I don't know if anyone will listen to what I putting out there, but I'm loving the process and v happy to be still learning stuff, despite the advancing age!!
@@repeat2fade hey, that’s fantastic! I’ll listen for sure! What is the name of the software you are using. I need to make lyric videos for my songs but I have no clue how to do it :/
Good for you! I just turned 54. Started music when I was in elementary school and played on and off through my 20s. Then life got in the way and I started doing other things. Picked it up again when the pandemic hit and have been writing since then. Fourth single releasing on Dec 8, but I'm mostly interested in writing. I release music to get my name out there, but...the hardest part for me is I don't like promoting myself on social media. I definitely feel like I'm too old for that, especially TikTok. I have a day job, so this isn't a make it or break it thing for me, but it would still be great if one of my fave artists called me up and said "hey, love your music and would love to write with you!" A girl can dream...
45 yrs old and back in the game after a 12 yr hiatus from doing original music, and i'm working on the best album i've ever written, all because of the accumulated experiences and maturity. I needed to hear this reassurance.
Same here. I quit at about 33 now I’m 45. I’ve been at it for the last couple years now not at all as much as I should. I have kids and I work seven days a week but little by little.
I am a 53 y/o painter drawer sculptor. I can asure you that it would been simply impossible, to create the work i am now creating any sooner. Especially without the past 28 years of searching, reading , researching, getting to understand my subject matter and maturing. Some art can only come to fruition after a long journey.
This video reminded me of a quote from Richard Hamming “For mathematics and physics, the best work is done by the young. It takes raw creativity to identify truths about the universe. For music and novel writing, later in career produces best work. It takes experience to create a masterpiece.”
Thanks for dropping the quote, and glad the video brought it up. I have a friend who teaches maths - I'm going to ask them about this next time I see them. Cheers again for taking the time.
Man I'm not gonna lie. feeling old all the time since the industry likes to highlight super young artists. I've been thinking about it differently lately. but yeah also this video is beautiful bro. love what you do.
I hear ya Trevor. The trick “on the industry side” is to find someone who is coachable, someone who wants to be groomed… someone who will lie and do things that they don’t want in order to become “successful”. When someone is willing to do that, they can be taken advantage of and won’t see it coming and also doesn’t know what to do about it. Industry is manipulation. The lie sold is… you can do it, just let us help… once you are controlled, they can shelf you or drop you or ruin you.. but only on the large scale..
The reason the 'industry' like young talents is because it immediately makes everyone feel useless.. keeps up the 'mysterious virtuouso' marketing schtik. Ironically you don't become a young virtuoso without having some kind of lack luster child hood.. there fore easy to manipulate.
As someone who was on a path to join the "27 Club" well into my 30s, I can tell you that all of this is true. Im almost 49 now, and Ive been through all the addictions, predatory contracts, let downs, and I truly don't beleive my career actually started until I was in my 40s.
Do you have a legitimate mental disorder? Joining the 27 club ends the second you turn 28. I thought that was a given, considering it’s called the 27 CLUB.
Don't we all have mental disorders? I have music placements on thousands upon thousands of television shows, and none of that really started to happen until I was in my fourties and relatively cleaned up. So... it doesn't matter how old you are. You are the result of your choices. @@Ash-j2h4x
I’m 67 and can honestly say that my songs are better than ever….problem is that the rest of the world just don’t care. This however won’t stop me from writing….your indifference is not my problem. I’ve accepted it and look at my creativity as therapy in a world increasingly getting crazier and colder.
Just before I turned 50, I was inspired by Ren to finally record a song I wrote 20 years ago, accepting my scarred vocal chords for what they can do now, instead of waiting for perfection. If The Rolling Stones can release a new album at 80, why can't any other 80 year old release their first album? Hurt was one of Johnny Cash's most powerful songs, not despite his age, but because of the wisdom he brought to Trent Reznor's words.
Honestly I have never seen a generation so obsessed with age like this generation it's weird failing to understand some artists back in the day didn't hit their creative highs until they got older being young is that your your young your still learning & trying to figure yourself out so the music reflects that but when you have Life experience because of age an Artists has plenty to sing or rap about
37, and it's just me, loop pedal, and a bedroom on guitar. No one else is subjected to it. I suffer my 'art.' it's just meditation, like fasting, breathing, cold showers. It's that flow state of riding bike through a city. Everything is a rhythm. Thanks to all the drummers out there, because I really hear the guitar more as a student of percussion.
I'm 62. I recorded and released 13 albums, composed a symphony and two orchestral fantasias, produced over 50 music videos, designed and built my own instrument, toured the US and Europe, composed music for over a dozen independent films, dance companies, and theater groups, and produced my own concerts. I've also written books and my paintings have been in several galleries and openings. Hell, I do entire concerts where I improvise every note of music I play! My music changed A LOT since I started. This is the natural order of things. But I'm as creative as I ever was. I can't turn it off! And after over a half century I have been making music, I feel like I'm just beginning. Does anyone think I should stop making music because I'm in my 60s? Stop me. I dare you to try.
I was the local artist’s artist in the band’s band pre-pandemic. We were all in our 20s and then the pandemic happened and we all transitioned to our 30s with everything on hold. Most of the bands who we shared bills with called it quits. My band and the bands I was in fizzled too. Since, I’ve been alone working in creative isolation and I’m starting to figure myself out. I thought it was over for me too now that I was irrelevant by way of a crumbled “era”, but recently art has started making sense and I’ve been creating for and from myself and I’ve never felt so free. It’s a really tough place to get to and through especially with how dark and cynical it it can get. If it's feeling like the end, take a break and your art will come to you when you need it, not when others do.
I’m about to hit 40 and I just got my first international booking. Which is a dream come true. There were and there are still days where I get down on myself or I don’t get the approval or reaction from the people who are playing my records but I’ve learned lately that if I like the record then that’s all that matters and If I didn’t make anything that I did like then I have to remind myself to keep going.
The strange thing is that music is something you get better at as time goes by. But the music industry (does that even exist?) does not appreciate this. My advice is to do it for yourself as self-fulfillment or as giving yourself personal goals and this will be more rewarding ultimately. Many of the great composers of the past never even got to hear their own music performed. So at least we are lucky in that respect.
The one thing that I’ve been emphasizing to my friends who are also creative, is when they make a project and they get in a small hole of uncertainty, doubt or resistance. I ask them “are you making this for you or are you making this to be liked?” and usually the general answer is , “I’m making this for me.” and then you follow up with the question “do you like it?” and most the time they say “yes, BUT… “ and that’s where you have to stop them. the moment they say but there’s no need, if you like it, you like it. that’s all that matters, everyone else comes after you.
I hear that. So tough to try and quiet that voice of others in your head when you're working. Thanks for sharing your piece and story on this - it's appreciated.
If you want to have a career and get paid, it’s important to make music that you think others may also like. If it’s just a hobby, then your opinion only matters. But if it’s a career, you do have to try and give people something they can connect with
@@trashyraccoon2615 but you’d still have to have a liking to what you’re making. You can always be considerate of what people might like, but if you’re an artist and you compromise the entirety of the project for others there will be no correlation with what you wanted to make for yourself
As an aspiring rapper/music artist myself, I needed to see this video because I have been doubting myself lately because of my slow progress trying to do music and I’m just trying so hard not to let those doubts get into my creativity and my mindset as a songwriter and artist even though I’m only 24 I been putting out music since I was 17
As a creative twice your age, I’ve dealt with those same feelings throughout. Things have definitely changed to allow creatives to be heard. Only if your brave enough to share your creations. Being honest with myself, I’ve personally WASTED so much of my creative life due to FEAR. Time that I’ll never get back. In the end, as long as you create freely from within, and YOU like it… That’s all that truly matters. (Wish I would’ve understood that long ago.) ✊🏾👍🏾✌🏾
i started late 2020 i was 21 and some times i wished i started earlier like 17 perhaphs id gone far but nothing so i started making beats thinking ive started late till i watch a video of a producer from kvxi interview and he said he started two years ago and now his beat is on drake's new album ..... and that got me motivated
Im almost 31 and have been working hard on music for 8/9 years now on my own original music. It is not easy. Yet, i feel its something that sort of siphons out those who dont truly love music and makes you really either double down or slow down. Im at the point ive said its music or death. We keep pushing. I appreciate this video
This is awesome. I think we all need tk learn is that not everyone peaks in their late teens and 20s. We as a society need to allow room for those artists who peak later in life to have a stage if they have earned it.
I often like to remind myself that Colonel Sanders was 65 when he (eventually) established the fast food chain KFC, having previously tried many business ventures with varying degrees of success. His 'time' came later in life... As for me? I'm 60! I have never stopped educating myself. With You Tube, the process has been made so much easier! My creative journey is still unfolding.
This video was exactly what I needed, I was fighting demons. Whispering my most personal insecurities to me. Encouraging/Convincing me to be passive. This video is art and a blessing. Thank you and shalom
Glad this one resonated for you and where you're at with your work right now. Thanks for taking the time to drop in and support in the comments - it's appreciated.
As a musician who played in highschool, gave it up for 10 years and started back at 31, this video echoes a lot of what I've felt. I am a completely different person now and have a much different perspective on music and life. Great video as always!
As someone who had folks around me that told me I only had a limited time to do what I love. Thank you for making this video. I don’t think I could ever walk away from making music. It makes me feel so free.
Im 27 and I thought I would be too old but that's so silly, especially since so many of my favorite artist popped off later in life. I have so much more focus and clarity on what i want to do, that I am kind of glad that I waited.
As a 34 year old artest that hasnt had a release in 10+ years and stumbling onto this channel, what an eye opening piece, thank you for this. I needed to hear this.
Someone asked me today why I’d waited so long to start in musical theatre. While it’s been painful to (realise how much I) have been cut off from part of myself for decades, I do think taking the long way to find myself has given me a breadth of life experience and perspective. And maybe that maturity adds depth to what I create and how I perform in some way. I really appreciated this video, especially the segment from 5:29 to 5:59. Thank you!
Charles Bukowski has always been one of my biggest inspirations, because he never found success until really late into his life, but he still never gave up
When I heard Tonis voice before the cut went to her I realized this was going to be one to sit down and full get a hot drink and be with. Thanks very much for more magick.
Thanks for this video, as a 55 year old artist, I realised I had ADHD at 50, so I feel that my life is only just getting started after 50 years of having no direction or motivation, I’ve finally started working on my goals/dreams of being an artist. I have always been OBSESSED with making art, but feel I’ve wasted 50 years! I only have 28 TH-cam subscribers so far, and a very tiny trickle of Etsy sales, but it’s a start 😬🙃
Holy crap... and here I thought I was screwed by being diagnosed at 30. Sadly, for ten years, having that confirmation has meant nothing and I totally relate to you on the no direction/motivation thing. Sure, I had been in bands and such, though I have sacrificed and lost so much chasing that dream. Moving across the country for it multiple times and having lost everything I own, no less than three times, including my guitars/Amps/Gear. I mean, how much punishment is someone supposed to take? Yet every time I try to break up, Music is creeping in my DMs trying to rekindle things. Sadly, one day I woke up and it was gone completely. Six years later, I have tried to pick it up again, though it's like starting all over, being so much older and having absolutely nothing to show for all of my previous work.
I liked this video. Seeing Miley front and center made me not wanna watch at first because though I enjoy her, she’s a nepo baby and got her shot super young. Seeing & hearing about people who got their shots later in life is more inspiring. That’s just my perspective though, thanks for putting this vid together.
Right. It put me off too cause why is this nepo baby who gained her success in her teens being used as an example of “feeling behind in life” in terms of career success? And she’s in the middle of the thumbnail too… Kind of defeats the purpose of this video.
With the most common comment hitting my socials and yt, "This is majorly underrated" it has hurt for many years to not see as much growth as I'd like, but only in the latter 2 years I have slowly grown closer to the notion that I'm starting to find a joy - I am finding a voice that allows the art to breathe, be itself, and let's me be myself and see this act of maturity come through. It's beautiful. And this video further propelled that concept forward. Some of our "musical circles" are toxic, because we're in rough dopaminergic times but this was a healing medicine. Thank you for this video.
I feel like as you grow older the content of the music grows deeper and deeper - I think that's the cool thing about getting older as an artist - the art/music is going to naturally be more meaningful - we only have to look at Mac Millers artisitic journey. Anyways every video you make just gets cleaner and better! Well done!! 🔥
I played sang in a band, wrote and had some decent art design skills in my youth. When our band eventually had life hit us in the face, we all started families and got real jobs. We hadn’t played in 10 years I had almost completely erased the thought of playing music or doing anything art related in anyway. During the pandemic we decided to get back together and go get a legitimate studio recording of the old songs. That opened us all up to playing again and with that came all our life experiences and higher musical knowledge as well as a little more disposable income. I will say I trust myself in my writing abilities more now and I like what I’m writing so much more. As well as I started designing again all our merch and album art by yours truly and I love it. I think all in all there was much more fear in me and my abilities when I was young cause I thought that it meant everything now I know it doesn’t and as long as I make what I want to make how I want to make it I can feel good about it now.
I'm 57, but with time, I lost all the drive to almost everything. When we are young, we have something essential to a music career, beyond talent: The energy, the sillyness, the motivation, the drive. But as time passes, I came to the conclusion that either you do, or don't, it doesn't mean anything at all. I still love to play and listen to music, but there are too many good artists already. I don't like to lie to myself. Dreams about that are a thing of the past. We get tired to try, to work, to struggle, but, hey, you come to your senses and asks: What's it all about ? Why do this, why do that ? And you finally discover that life doesn't need to be a struggle, this eternal competition, and you begin to love nature, who you are, and you finally discover the fullness of life. You simply let it be. 🎉🎉❤
I started recording over 30 years ago on a 4 track tape recorder. Stumbled my way through digital recording over the last 20 years. I recently started using an ai vocal plugin and I'm writing lyrics for the first time in my life. Now I'm re-recording and finishing songs I started on my 4 track. Some of my best work. I'll never stop doing what I love
I still make music at 39. I feel that my music is much better now because of all the experience that I can call from. I’ve loved more I’ve lost more, and you can hear that soul in someone’s voice.
I take great comfort in knowing that someday when I am old, even crippled and alone, I still can do something that I love: make music and write lyrics. Just started last year, in the age of 45. People think I am crazy, but I think they just don't know how liberating it feels to be able to create something from the air.
Thanks again for this video I finally break through my real self now and I am 53...and I am younger than ever. Age is mainly in your mind. I do collage, I am writing again and have a lot of project. I like to listen to the new generation of artists. They are amazing! I also have my roots in Jazz, Funk and Rock. The most important is how you feel and where you are now in your journey. For me I am finallyu on the right path. Missguided is the exact feeling I had during all those years. Once again amazing video. 🙏🙏
I didn't know myself until I hit a bottom at 23. After being sober for 2 years, I have purpose and can reflect. I feel ready to share a perspective and my music shows that now.
Honestly I’m growing into becoming more comfortable with experimental artwork and music…it speaks to exploring myself at the deepest lengths, creatively and humanely. When I say experimental, I do it for myself…not with the intention to showcase the work looking for others to be impressed. I dabble in different mediums to keep strengthening my creative freedom. By not producing for mass culture, this is the key to unlocking a never ending flow of imagination, creativity, and artistic joy.
I gave up my dreams at 23 and settled to see music as a 5 minute hobby every Sunday or as much time my job allowed me to. "It will go away, and I will forget those dreams eventually." But the thing is, creative minds cannot be contained, controlled, or have the capability to forget. Our minds are tied to the joy that comes from creating. 20s, 30s, 50s and beyond, music doesn't leave us. Nowadays music is still my hobby; the difference is that I make use of all my free time to do it. The joy of hearing a finished product that I visualized in my mind, overrides the pain of disappointment of those dreams that didn't come true. And we keep creating as life goes on.
seeing all the musicians in here coming together and being positive about their passion and never giving it up really inspire me so much. I’m 18, im more than grateful to have this headstart. No matter how long, rough, and stressful my journey is, I won’t ever give up 🤘🏾music is what I love
Art is all about a conversation. And wherever you are at in your life, there are gonna be people out there who are the exact people that need to hear what you’ve got to say, at that moment.
Absolutely love you for this, it’s scary as even the young artists in their mid 20s, that we work with in the studio, worry that it may be too late for them to succeed. We tell them that Love & Hate are just opposite ends of the same stick/spectrum and that Love focuses energy internally but Hate focuses energy externally. Your message about homing in on life experiences and turning one’s focus away from societal expectations to yield one’s own creative mastery are the exact teachings we want the artist around us to learn from. So agin, thank you. I think we are going to all of our artists in to watch this as a group and form discussions around this profound message. 💚
So good and so true. I didn't really find my voice until I stopped trying to please everyone else. When I began to do it for myself, my own enjoyment and self fulfillment the floodgates opened.
My last album release was an electronica album in 2001 when I was 29 years old. Three years later I changed gears and put a soul/R&B band together and I was the singer, keyboardist and songwriter. We started recording an album. We played live a lot at first but the momentum slowed down because everyone else was getting married/having kids/etc. I delved in other endeavors in life that turned out to not really work out. The album was finally finished and mixed a few years ago but then The Pandemic hit. Some of us still play together sporadically but I've always wanted to put out our album...but things just keep coming up. "Feeling behind in life" is an understatement that describes me. Today just happens to be my 52nd birthday and I somehow stumbled upon this video, so thank you, I needed this.
In my 40s and finally writing music I personally enjoy. All through my 20s I felt like bands pushed me to write what they wanted . Thank you so much for this video!
These videos are so so so so crucial for me during this time, I haven’t quite found my creative tribe so I feel alone in my creative journey all the time! I’m gaining a lot of insight and comfort from all of these points on bringing my art to fruition!❤ thank you all
thank you for another great, unique and much needed video on a random note: i love that you transcript what it's being said into text because it helps absorb the message (especially when you've got an adhd-leaning brain and struggle with focus and attention, which in this day and age is most of us lol). I also really like how eclectic and open minded you are, making space for both sugimoto and miley in the same video for example, yes to that.
Thanks Serenity now - always great to see you in here, and really glad the stuff I'm making is resonating with you - thanks for the specific feedback also.
I'm turning 32 next month and I feel the most artistic I've been in my 13 years of making music. I'm from DC and I felt like all my musical friends were leaving me behind in the begining. They all found success early. After my Mom died 9 years ago, I stopped doing music for 4 years and moved to China. When I first got here, I gave myself some time to just experience everything here in 2016. By the time 2019 came I was ready to start making music again and it was the best decision I ever made. I learned so many new skills, expanding my genres, and feeling more free to make what I wanted. I even started performing live. I learned how to follow my experiences to make my art and let go of the emotions that were holding on to me.
. When I hear a matured artist sing or tell a story there is something that is just immediately fascinating about it to me . They almost are indie by default as they just have carved their own lane and don’t follow a trend or anything . There’s something in their voice ( the depth and maybe the storytelling ) and how they see music or any medium really that is so different than mainstream younger artists . I think older & younger artists should definitely have something to look forward to as they age. I do!
I'm 27 and my new band has two members in their 40's completing the trio. I've always been working with older people. Got my vocal chops down with a Doobie Brothers tribute band, learned how to track in a traditional studio, learned live sound engineering, etc with people in their 40's, 50's and up. I'm currently in another band, the singer is 60, she wrote 26 original songs in 2 years and booked a 15 000 people festival feature as our FIRST ever gig. The whole culture of "you only get one chance" is the most toxic lie ever told. The music industry is a fcked up place, and I thank God my dad was here to help me navigate it.
I’m 40 years old and I write/ record rap, R&B, Soul trap. I would never stop writing! I’ve inspired many in my life to get started and that feeling alone is enough to keep me going. ❤
This video gives me hope. I keep going through these cycles of feeling excited and hopeful to feeling deflated. In my 30s with a tiny social circle. Thanks for this mate
Thanks for this! Pretty much how we're feeling as a duo in our mid thirties. Many blessing to you all and your creative journeys. Your gift to the world is you, and the expression of it and your experience through your art.
Much of the way that I used to see the world was part and parcel with being young, and the hubris and particular blindness that always entails. You miss the energy level and the certainty, but at the same time, you freely understand all the basic ways you were wrong.I do wish that that the good aspects that stood the test of time could be found in younger artists coming up, but they are instead unique to my perspective, and will be lost if I don't put them out there.
The thing that helps me is disconnecting from the belief of age. It's just a system of numbers you can follow or not, but at the end of the day.....your not age X. What you really are, is alive. And as long as your alive, that's all that matters.
For many youth is spent attaining responsibility and family etc. This makes the unincumbered pursuit of creative goals unsuportable. So later years can allow us the opportunity for those creative pursuits we did not have before. Creativity is a life long expression.
When i was younger my writing was definitely more charged. It had more fire, but the fact is fire burns indiscriminately. I had no focus and my ability to learn the things i needed to learn suffered greatly. I needed to focus on completing certain steps that required all types of investment, and i was just exploding on paper instead. I am a firm believer that no time spent writing is time wasted. I can still use those lyrics, in its entirety or maybe revised a bit. The beauty of lyrics is it captures emotion and energy that can be harnessed at any time. I can perform them and feel what i was feeling, it was me, so i can step into that energy even all these years later. The difference is, im older now with the ability to do something with it. I have more patience now. My work isnt so rushed like i have a time limit and i realize its all a process. A real artists work comes together like puzzle peices when its time. You just have to look at the whole thing as a timeline, a process, and invest yourself into your art with patience and understanding.
It’s my 22nd birthday today, you wouldn’t believe how great the timing is on this video lmao I woke up today feeling like it was too late for me. Thank you
These are such profound ideas. The best art comes from the most honest of places. Thank you for encouraging others to be themselves and express their true selves. This is so needed 😊❤
As a woman this is felt 10 fold because the whole world tries to instill in us that our value lies in our youth. It’s constantly trying to unlearn and hold strong against these debilitating societal beliefs
We live in a day of age of infantile music. When I was a kid, sure some of the trendy artists were "young", but life was different and harder back in the days, hence why those artists didn't come across as being "just young". They already lived. This phenomena of 15 years old succeeding is a relatively new thing, and soon it will die out. People wanna hear real people, not just the teenage heartbreak songs. Also, people will stay younger and age different anyways, so we should stop saying someone is old.
I’m nearly 50 years old and have always played drums and back up vocals for other bands and groups ect , have now started working on some original music of my own , finally lol
Took me till the age of 34 to “ make it “ Over thinking Is big one , but also under thinking is another lol finding that middle ground is something that usually takes some time.
I used to write songs that most people didn't seem to enjoy and I wasn't seeing tangible results. But I wasn't presenting it to the right audience. Then I started to learn about marketing pop to the masses. I wrote songs that were inauthentic and pandering. Now, I use methods to write songs that are catchy and maybe fiction yet not contrived cliche bullshit. Stay true to yourself all of the way.
after 7 years of making music, 4 LPs i released I'm slowly starting to feel that i'm finding my way. be patient Guys. and btw - thanks for your movies - my self developing time of a week
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Thank you for including my songs "Debriefing" & "Gavroche" in this video! I've loved & learned from all your videos so far, so I'm honored.
To whoever is reading this - wherever you are in life - as long as you're here there's time. Though this world will often disappoint us in as a many ways as it can with it's arbitrary distribution of both good fortune and horror, it can also be a canvas for the most amazing possibilities. Until you draw your last breath, do not give up on yourself. Trust your process. Trust your vision.
Great video, again. Much needed advice as I'm balancing the acceptance of these truths, and a hastier subconscious version of me trying to deny them.
Man I’m 42, I quit music at 27 and thought I was too old then 😂 so young and dumb. I’ll never quit music now. Having the time of my life.
Just checked out your page, your content is great and shot so well too, subbed!
@@ansomworld Thanks man!! I really appreciate that. Welcome 🙏🏾
keep the youtube content coming my guy. pages like you and archie help people more than you know.
@@FromTheHipp Thanks man! That’s why I keep doing it. I want to give back some value and also it’s actually therapeutic for me as well.
That's the age where I almost quit myself lol
As someone who is 34 turning 35 this year, I spent years go into circles about my writing and comedy. I spent years listening to family and friends about “ getting a real job” and “ art doesn’t pay the bills” only to eventually tuning that noise out.
I want to share a perspective with artists who may in the comments older. Although you are pursuing art at an age that’s not “ celebrated “ look at it as how much incredible experience you’ve gained. So many people wish they have life experiences to create from. I thank God I didn’t pursue standup at a young age bc I wouldn’t have shit to talk about. Now in my mid 30s, I have endless material to write jokes.
You have time and you’re not too old to do anything.
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thats the importance about creation. some A&R that has never created a day in his life is going to be the one that tells you to stop at 35? but God gave you the gift and the means to express it, so you do it. You dont tell a painter to stop painting at 75. You dont tell an actor to stop acting at 60. You dont tell a pianist to stop playing at 30. a novelist to stop writing at 50... so its miserably misguided to tell an artist, whether you sing or rap(which i now just call vocalists) to stop creating art. if you put the time into your project and it sounds incredible, the world will recognize it and appreciate it.
I didn’t write an original song into I was 30 years old. Now I’m playing in a band, composing for film and making my own music on the side. I’m 33 and still rising!
Yes!!
That's amazing! And very inspiring to hear. What made you finally start creating? Im 30 and ive played guitar most of my life at this point, and i love to be creative but my ideas never go further than a voice memo on my phone. I always felt uncapable of making music for real, even if i know that's not true. Instead of creating i obsess about improving my playing, which is kinda useless considering i'm just playing by myself and know no other musicians lol.
@@menamgamg i think at some point i gave up on being “good enough” and just focused on recording my ideas. It’s all very rough and has plenty of flaws but i just try to remember that none of that matters and to just write for me. I know you have it in you as well and as long as the song is meaningful to you then it doesn’t matter what other people think of it
@@mattymcfabb Thank you. I think perfectionism is definitely a problem for me and i always keep moving the goalpost of what good enough is. I'm aware that this behavior is a form of avoidance because I'm afraid of creating for some reason, but i don't know why i have that fear honestly and i know it's irrational. Maybe it's the fear that i will find i'm incapable.
I didn't find out how to get the muse flowing at will until I was 37. But now life is great...in that respect.
Just hitting my 40s still feeling like a 20yr old, I realize the meaning of “it’s never too late”. Especially as a creative, your age DOES NOT translate your creativity. Even in this day in age, if you feel you’re “too old” for certain things, you gotta think that you’re already several steps ahead of your younger counterparts. If you’ve done your homework, then you need to take advantage of that. But with age aside, success in life involves seeing things that others haven’t seen yet.
Thanks for spreading your story and support on the page here. So great to see people resonating with this one, and the positivity that's coming out. Thanks for taking the time.
Except when you want to be a female rapper. It’s so ageist 😢
@@adriannaalba2649 Queen Latifah and MC Lyte are still hailed as queens. Nah, f-that, ‘queen’ gets thrown around to easily these days. They are the goddesses of hip hop. Then you got Lil Kim who paved the way for the queens of that raunchy/ratchet style which I’m personally second to. But in the male-dominated environment of hip hop, yes, the females have to work that much harder to make their mark. We got Nicki who’s prolly the oldest of that Lil Kim style staying relevant. But I honestly prefer to see more of that Latifah/Lyte style come back which I see in the likes of Rapsody, Young MA, and Mumu Fresh. Ultimately, what really matters is putting your heart and soul into your craft and people will see that. It’s terribly sad, especially for females having to “sell” themselves whilst putting their actual talent to the side.
I’m 58 now. I’m almost finished my second album. My first one was crap. I’m proud of this one. I doubt anyone will listen to it and that does make me wonder why I bother but creators must create…
I’m also a huge Miley Cyris fan!
Just a couple of years behind you, and doing the same. Except I decided not to make an album, I've been using AI assisted video editing software to make lyric videos that I post to TH-cam. Like you, I don't know if anyone will listen to what I putting out there, but I'm loving the process and v happy to be still learning stuff, despite the advancing age!!
@@repeat2fade hey, that’s fantastic! I’ll listen for sure! What is the name of the software you are using. I need to make lyric videos for my songs but I have no clue how to do it :/
As long as you like it and got whatever feeling/message you wanted to express out, that’s all that matters man
@@TheOMasterJ no, that’s not all that matters to me. I would like to earn some income from my work!
Good for you! I just turned 54. Started music when I was in elementary school and played on and off through my 20s. Then life got in the way and I started doing other things. Picked it up again when the pandemic hit and have been writing since then. Fourth single releasing on Dec 8, but I'm mostly interested in writing. I release music to get my name out there, but...the hardest part for me is I don't like promoting myself on social media. I definitely feel like I'm too old for that, especially TikTok. I have a day job, so this isn't a make it or break it thing for me, but it would still be great if one of my fave artists called me up and said "hey, love your music and would love to write with you!" A girl can dream...
Artistry is not a phase it's a lifestyle. To infinity and beyond
Hmmm
45 yrs old and back in the game after a 12 yr hiatus from doing original music, and i'm working on the best album i've ever written, all because of the accumulated experiences and maturity. I needed to hear this reassurance.
Good for you. Same boat ❤
Same here. I quit at about 33 now I’m 45. I’ve been at it for the last couple years now not at all as much as I should. I have kids and I work seven days a week but little by little.
@@LoVeAmBiEnT Good for you! Never too late
That’s great ! I am doing the same . And finally have some good gear 😂
I am a 53 y/o painter drawer sculptor. I can asure you that it would been simply impossible, to create the work i am now creating any sooner. Especially without the past 28 years of searching, reading , researching, getting to understand my subject matter and maturing. Some art can only come to fruition after a long journey.
This video reminded me of a quote from Richard Hamming “For mathematics and physics, the best work is done by the young. It takes raw creativity to identify truths about the universe. For music and novel writing, later in career produces best work. It takes experience to create a masterpiece.”
Thanks for dropping the quote, and glad the video brought it up. I have a friend who teaches maths - I'm going to ask them about this next time I see them. Cheers again for taking the time.
Man, I can't believe how many of us are in our forties are getting back on the music. Good luck and stay blessed
Man I'm not gonna lie. feeling old all the time since the industry likes to highlight super young artists. I've been thinking about it differently lately. but yeah also this video is beautiful bro. love what you do.
If u feel old u most likely are getting older. This video was made just so pathetic people like u can give him views
I hear ya Trevor. The trick “on the industry side” is to find someone who is coachable, someone who wants to be groomed… someone who will lie and do things that they don’t want in order to become “successful”. When someone is willing to do that, they can be taken advantage of and won’t see it coming and also doesn’t know what to do about it. Industry is manipulation. The lie sold is… you can do it, just let us help… once you are controlled, they can shelf you or drop you or ruin you.. but only on the large scale..
@@brandontherun8637 don’t waste your time. He’s hopeless
The reason the 'industry' like young talents is because it immediately makes everyone feel useless.. keeps up the 'mysterious virtuouso' marketing schtik.
Ironically you don't become a young virtuoso without having some kind of lack luster child hood.. there fore easy to manipulate.
As someone who was on a path to join the "27 Club" well into my 30s, I can tell you that all of this is true. Im almost 49 now, and Ive been through all the addictions, predatory contracts, let downs, and I truly don't beleive my career actually started until I was in my 40s.
Do you have a legitimate mental disorder? Joining the 27 club ends the second you turn 28. I thought that was a given, considering it’s called the 27 CLUB.
Also what career? Hope u not talking about music cos u do not have a career in music
Don't we all have mental disorders? I have music placements on thousands upon thousands of television shows, and none of that really started to happen until I was in my fourties and relatively cleaned up. So... it doesn't matter how old you are. You are the result of your choices. @@Ash-j2h4x
I’m 67 and can honestly say that my songs are better than ever….problem is that the rest of the world just don’t care. This however won’t stop me from writing….your indifference is not my problem. I’ve accepted it and look at my creativity as therapy in a world increasingly getting crazier and colder.
Just before I turned 50, I was inspired by Ren to finally record a song I wrote 20 years ago, accepting my scarred vocal chords for what they can do now, instead of waiting for perfection. If The Rolling Stones can release a new album at 80, why can't any other 80 year old release their first album? Hurt was one of Johnny Cash's most powerful songs, not despite his age, but because of the wisdom he brought to Trent Reznor's words.
Honestly I have never seen a generation so obsessed with age like this generation it's weird failing to understand some artists back in the day didn't hit their creative highs until they got older being young is that your your young your still learning & trying to figure yourself out so the music reflects that but when you have Life experience because of age an Artists has plenty to sing or rap about
37, and it's just me, loop pedal, and a bedroom on guitar. No one else is subjected to it. I suffer my 'art.' it's just meditation, like fasting, breathing, cold showers. It's that flow state of riding bike through a city. Everything is a rhythm. Thanks to all the drummers out there, because I really hear the guitar more as a student of percussion.
I'm 62. I recorded and released 13 albums, composed a symphony and two orchestral fantasias, produced over 50 music videos, designed and built my own instrument, toured the US and Europe, composed music for over a dozen independent films, dance companies, and theater groups, and produced my own concerts. I've also written books and my paintings have been in several galleries and openings. Hell, I do entire concerts where I improvise every note of music I play!
My music changed A LOT since I started. This is the natural order of things. But I'm as creative as I ever was. I can't turn it off! And after over a half century I have been making music, I feel like I'm just beginning.
Does anyone think I should stop making music because I'm in my 60s? Stop me. I dare you to try.
Never atop! You are brilliant and keep being just that.
Congrats on be true to yourself. ❤❤
I was the local artist’s artist in the band’s band pre-pandemic. We were all in our 20s and then the pandemic happened and we all transitioned to our 30s with everything on hold. Most of the bands who we shared bills with called it quits. My band and the bands I was in fizzled too. Since, I’ve been alone working in creative isolation and I’m starting to figure myself out. I thought it was over for me too now that I was irrelevant by way of a crumbled “era”, but recently art has started making sense and I’ve been creating for and from myself and I’ve never felt so free. It’s a really tough place to get to and through especially with how dark and cynical it it can get.
If it's feeling like the end, take a break and your art will come to you when you need it, not when others do.
I’m about to hit 40 and I just got my first international booking. Which is a dream come true. There were and there are still days where I get down on myself or I don’t get the approval or reaction from the people who are playing my records but I’ve learned lately that if I like the record then that’s all that matters and If I didn’t make anything that I did like then I have to remind myself to keep going.
Appreciate you sharing your story in here and dropping the support here for others.
The strange thing is that music is something you get better at as time goes by. But the music industry (does that even exist?) does not appreciate this. My advice is to do it for yourself as self-fulfillment or as giving yourself personal goals and this will be more rewarding ultimately. Many of the great composers of the past never even got to hear their own music performed. So at least we are lucky in that respect.
The one thing that I’ve been emphasizing to my friends who are also creative, is when they make a project and they get in a small hole of uncertainty, doubt or resistance. I ask them “are you making this for you or are you making this to be liked?” and usually the general answer is , “I’m making this for me.” and then you follow up with the question “do you like it?” and most the time they say “yes, BUT… “ and that’s where you have to stop them. the moment they say but there’s no need, if you like it, you like it. that’s all that matters, everyone else comes after you.
I hear that. So tough to try and quiet that voice of others in your head when you're working. Thanks for sharing your piece and story on this - it's appreciated.
So true. Even our greatest , deepest project can face criticism even when our entire existence in poured into it. Accept one’s own art.
If you want to have a career and get paid, it’s important to make music that you think others may also like. If it’s just a hobby, then your opinion only matters. But if it’s a career, you do have to try and give people something they can connect with
@@trashyraccoon2615 but you’d still have to have a liking to what you’re making. You can always be considerate of what people might like, but if you’re an artist and you compromise the entirety of the project for others there will be no correlation with what you wanted to make for yourself
@@DREDIRECTS Right. That’s why I said “also” like. You’re gonna need to have both if you want to make a career out of it
As a producer that's about to turn 30 this is hitting different.
As an aspiring rapper/music artist myself, I needed to see this video because I have been doubting myself lately because of my slow progress trying to do music and I’m just trying so hard not to let those doubts get into my creativity and my mindset as a songwriter and artist even though I’m only 24 I been putting out music since I was 17
As a creative twice your age, I’ve dealt with those same feelings throughout. Things have definitely changed to allow creatives to be heard. Only if your brave enough to share your creations. Being honest with myself, I’ve personally WASTED so much of my creative life due to FEAR. Time that I’ll never get back. In the end, as long as you create freely from within, and YOU like it… That’s all that truly matters. (Wish I would’ve understood that long ago.) ✊🏾👍🏾✌🏾
i started late 2020 i was 21 and some times i wished i started earlier like 17 perhaphs id gone far but nothing so i started making beats thinking ive started late till i watch a video of a producer from kvxi interview and he said he started two years ago and now his beat is on drake's new album ..... and that got me motivated
Im almost 31 and have been working hard on music for 8/9 years now on my own original music. It is not easy.
Yet, i feel its something that sort of siphons out those who dont truly love music and makes you really either double down or slow down. Im at the point ive said its music or death. We keep pushing.
I appreciate this video
Music is life.
A picture is worth a thousand words. A song is worth a thousand pictures.
Holy shit every one of your videos have been so needed. Thank you!!!
Right?!
This is awesome. I think we all need tk learn is that not everyone peaks in their late teens and 20s. We as a society need to allow room for those artists who peak later in life to have a stage if they have earned it.
I often like to remind myself that Colonel Sanders was 65 when he (eventually) established the fast food chain KFC, having previously tried many business ventures with varying degrees of success. His 'time' came later in life...
As for me? I'm 60! I have never stopped educating myself.
With You Tube, the process has been made so much easier!
My creative journey is still unfolding.
This video was exactly what I needed, I was fighting demons. Whispering my most personal insecurities to me. Encouraging/Convincing me to be passive. This video is art and a blessing. Thank you and shalom
I deal with the same thing as an aspiring artist and fight everyday to get through and letting u know you are not alone
Glad this one resonated for you and where you're at with your work right now. Thanks for taking the time to drop in and support in the comments - it's appreciated.
You my friend, are an artist
As a musician who played in highschool, gave it up for 10 years and started back at 31, this video echoes a lot of what I've felt. I am a completely different person now and have a much different perspective on music and life. Great video as always!
As someone who had folks around me that told me I only had a limited time to do what I love. Thank you for making this video. I don’t think I could ever walk away from making music. It makes me feel so free.
Im 27 and I thought I would be too old but that's so silly, especially since so many of my favorite artist popped off later in life. I have so much more focus and clarity on what i want to do, that I am kind of glad that I waited.
As a 34 year old artest that hasnt had a release in 10+ years and stumbling onto this channel, what an eye opening piece, thank you for this. I needed to hear this.
I'm going on 8 years and it's soul torture.
Someone asked me today why I’d waited so long to start in musical theatre. While it’s been painful to (realise how much I) have been cut off from part of myself for decades, I do think taking the long way to find myself has given me a breadth of life experience and perspective. And maybe that maturity adds depth to what I create and how I perform in some way. I really appreciated this video, especially the segment from 5:29 to 5:59. Thank you!
This video and the comments is like having a bunch therapists speak to me at the same time. ❤
Charles Bukowski has always been one of my biggest inspirations, because he never found success until really late into his life, but he still never gave up
When I heard Tonis voice before the cut went to her I realized this was going to be one to sit down and full get a hot drink and be with. Thanks very much for more magick.
Ah glad you appreciated the Toni Morrison bit. Really happy the work is resonating, and thanks for taking the time to support - it matters.
Thanks for this video, as a 55 year old artist, I realised I had ADHD at 50, so I feel that my life is only just getting started after 50 years of having no direction or motivation, I’ve finally started working on my goals/dreams of being an artist. I have always been OBSESSED with making art, but feel I’ve wasted 50 years! I only have 28 TH-cam subscribers so far, and a very tiny trickle of Etsy sales, but it’s a start 😬🙃
Holy crap... and here I thought I was screwed by being diagnosed at 30. Sadly, for ten years, having that confirmation has meant nothing and I totally relate to you on the no direction/motivation thing.
Sure, I had been in bands and such, though I have sacrificed and lost so much chasing that dream. Moving across the country for it multiple times and having lost everything I own, no less than three times, including my guitars/Amps/Gear. I mean, how much punishment is someone supposed to take? Yet every time I try to break up, Music is creeping in my DMs trying to rekindle things.
Sadly, one day I woke up and it was gone completely. Six years later, I have tried to pick it up again, though it's like starting all over, being so much older and having absolutely nothing to show for all of my previous work.
The fifty years weren't wasted. They were required to make you what you are today, the artist that you are today.
I liked this video. Seeing Miley front and center made me not wanna watch at first because though I enjoy her, she’s a nepo baby and got her shot super young. Seeing & hearing about people who got their shots later in life is more inspiring. That’s just my perspective though, thanks for putting this vid together.
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Right. It put me off too cause why is this nepo baby who gained her success in her teens being used as an example of “feeling behind in life” in terms of career success? And she’s in the middle of the thumbnail too… Kind of defeats the purpose of this video.
100% she had any and every resource/opportunity waiting for her
With the most common comment hitting my socials and yt, "This is majorly underrated" it has hurt for many years to not see as much growth as I'd like, but only in the latter 2 years I have slowly grown closer to the notion that I'm starting to find a joy - I am finding a voice that allows the art to breathe, be itself, and let's me be myself and see this act of maturity come through. It's beautiful. And this video further propelled that concept forward. Some of our "musical circles" are toxic, because we're in rough dopaminergic times but this was a healing medicine. Thank you for this video.
I feel like as you grow older the content of the music grows deeper and deeper - I think that's the cool thing about getting older as an artist - the art/music is going to naturally be more meaningful - we only have to look at Mac Millers artisitic journey.
Anyways every video you make just gets cleaner and better!
Well done!! 🔥
I played sang in a band, wrote and had some decent art design skills in my youth. When our band eventually had life hit us in the face, we all started families and got real jobs. We hadn’t played in 10 years I had almost completely erased the thought of playing music or doing anything art related in anyway. During the pandemic we decided to get back together and go get a legitimate studio recording of the old songs. That opened us all up to playing again and with that came all our life experiences and higher musical knowledge as well as a little more disposable income. I will say I trust myself in my writing abilities more now and I like what I’m writing so much more. As well as I started designing again all our merch and album art by yours truly and I love it. I think all in all there was much more fear in me and my abilities when I was young cause I thought that it meant everything now I know it doesn’t and as long as I make what I want to make how I want to make it I can feel good about it now.
I'm 57, but with time, I lost all the drive to almost everything. When we are young, we have something essential to a music career, beyond talent: The energy, the sillyness, the motivation, the drive. But as time passes, I came to the conclusion that either you do, or don't, it doesn't mean anything at all. I still love to play and listen to music, but there are too many good artists already. I don't like to lie to myself. Dreams about that are a thing of the past. We get tired to try, to work, to struggle, but, hey, you come to your senses and asks: What's it all about ? Why do this, why do that ? And you finally discover that life doesn't need to be a struggle, this eternal competition, and you begin to love nature, who you are, and you finally discover the fullness of life. You simply let it be. 🎉🎉❤
I started recording over 30 years ago on a 4 track tape recorder. Stumbled my way through digital recording over the last 20 years. I recently started using an ai vocal plugin and I'm writing lyrics for the first time in my life. Now I'm re-recording and finishing songs I started on my 4 track. Some of my best work. I'll never stop doing what I love
I still make music at 39. I feel that my music is much better now because of all the experience that I can call from. I’ve loved more I’ve lost more, and you can hear that soul in someone’s voice.
I take great comfort in knowing that someday when I am old, even crippled and alone, I still can do something that I love: make music and write lyrics.
Just started last year, in the age of 45. People think I am crazy, but I think they just don't know how liberating it feels to be able to create something from the air.
Thanks again for this video I finally break through my real self now and I am 53...and I am younger than ever. Age is mainly in your mind. I do collage, I am writing again and have a lot of project. I like to listen to the new generation of artists. They are amazing! I also have my roots in Jazz, Funk and Rock. The most important is how you feel and where you are now in your journey. For me I am finallyu on the right path. Missguided is the exact feeling I had during all those years. Once again amazing video. 🙏🙏
Thanks so much for sharing your story in here. I appreciate you taking the time to support and share the words of positivity.
20's was spent gaining experience and 30's are spent putting that experience to use. Way more productive now
I didn't know myself until I hit a bottom at 23. After being sober for 2 years, I have purpose and can reflect. I feel ready to share a perspective and my music shows that now.
Yo what up Nate lol
@@thelashaunlove yooooooooo!
Honestly I’m growing into becoming more comfortable with experimental artwork and music…it speaks to exploring myself at the deepest lengths, creatively and humanely. When I say experimental, I do it for myself…not with the intention to showcase the work looking for others to be impressed. I dabble in different mediums to keep strengthening my creative freedom. By not producing for mass culture, this is the key to unlocking a never ending flow of imagination, creativity, and artistic joy.
I gave up my dreams at 23 and settled to see music as a 5 minute hobby every Sunday or as much time my job allowed me to. "It will go away, and I will forget those dreams eventually." But the thing is, creative minds cannot be contained, controlled, or have the capability to forget. Our minds are tied to the joy that comes from creating. 20s, 30s, 50s and beyond, music doesn't leave us. Nowadays music is still my hobby; the difference is that I make use of all my free time to do it. The joy of hearing a finished product that I visualized in my mind, overrides the pain of disappointment of those dreams that didn't come true. And we keep creating as life goes on.
seeing all the musicians in here coming together and being positive about their passion and never giving it up really inspire me so much. I’m 18, im more than grateful to have this headstart. No matter how long, rough, and stressful my journey is, I won’t ever give up 🤘🏾music is what I love
Art is all about a conversation. And wherever you are at in your life, there are gonna be people out there who are the exact people that need to hear what you’ve got to say, at that moment.
I don’t believe that. I’m much older but I’m still working towards my goals. I’ll never ever stop until I reach that goal.
Absolutely love you for this, it’s scary as even the young artists in their mid 20s, that we work with in the studio, worry that it may be too late for them to succeed. We tell them that Love & Hate are just opposite ends of the same stick/spectrum and that Love focuses energy internally but Hate focuses energy externally. Your message about homing in on life experiences and turning one’s focus away from societal expectations to yield one’s own creative mastery are the exact teachings we want the artist around us to learn from. So agin, thank you. I think we are going to all of our artists in to watch this as a group and form discussions around this profound message. 💚
So good and so true. I didn't really find my voice until I stopped trying to please everyone else. When I began to do it for myself, my own enjoyment and self fulfillment the floodgates opened.
My last album release was an electronica album in 2001 when I was 29 years old. Three years later I changed gears and put a soul/R&B band together and I was the singer, keyboardist and songwriter. We started recording an album. We played live a lot at first but the momentum slowed down because everyone else was getting married/having kids/etc. I delved in other endeavors in life that turned out to not really work out. The album was finally finished and mixed a few years ago but then The Pandemic hit. Some of us still play together sporadically but I've always wanted to put out our album...but things just keep coming up. "Feeling behind in life" is an understatement that describes me.
Today just happens to be my 52nd birthday and I somehow stumbled upon this video, so thank you, I needed this.
In my 40s and finally writing music I personally enjoy. All through my 20s I felt like bands pushed me to write what they wanted .
Thank you so much for this video!
Been playing guitar since 16 always had writers block till like 33 randomly and love what I write now
Thank you for your time creating these videos for the worldwide arts community!! I love getting notifications on your videos
this is easily one of my favorite channels on YT right now! can't wait for this to blow up, it's gonna help so many creatives
Glad the videos are resonating with your work or your journey. Appreciate the support always, and taking the time to drop in and say it.
These videos are so so so so crucial for me during this time, I haven’t quite found my creative tribe so I feel alone in my creative journey all the time! I’m gaining a lot of insight and comfort from all of these points on bringing my art to fruition!❤ thank you all
I can already tell I need this one‼️ thanks in advance ❤️
Thank you, sincerely. This video means a lot to me. Nearly 40 but still a child in my head …
This is really speaking to me. I have squandered so much time not building a more consistent creative structure that builds momentum.
Older artists are going to be the thing soon, mark my words!!!!!
thank you for another great, unique and much needed video
on a random note: i love that you transcript what it's being said into text because it helps absorb the message (especially when you've got an adhd-leaning brain and struggle with focus and attention, which in this day and age is most of us lol). I also really like how eclectic and open minded you are, making space for both sugimoto and miley in the same video for example, yes to that.
Thanks Serenity now - always great to see you in here, and really glad the stuff I'm making is resonating with you - thanks for the specific feedback also.
I'm turning 32 next month and I feel the most artistic I've been in my 13 years of making music. I'm from DC and I felt like all my musical friends were leaving me behind in the begining. They all found success early. After my Mom died 9 years ago, I stopped doing music for 4 years and moved to China. When I first got here, I gave myself some time to just experience everything here in 2016. By the time 2019 came I was ready to start making music again and it was the best decision I ever made. I learned so many new skills, expanding my genres, and feeling more free to make what I wanted. I even started performing live. I learned how to follow my experiences to make my art and let go of the emotions that were holding on to me.
. When I hear a matured artist sing or tell a story there is something that is just immediately fascinating about it to me . They almost are indie by default as they just have carved their own lane and don’t follow a trend or anything . There’s something in their voice ( the depth and maybe the storytelling ) and how they see music or any medium really that is so different than mainstream younger artists . I think older & younger artists should definitely have something to look forward to as they age. I do!
I'm 27 and my new band has two members in their 40's completing the trio. I've always been working with older people. Got my vocal chops down with a Doobie Brothers tribute band, learned how to track in a traditional studio, learned live sound engineering, etc with people in their 40's, 50's and up. I'm currently in another band, the singer is 60, she wrote 26 original songs in 2 years and booked a 15 000 people festival feature as our FIRST ever gig. The whole culture of "you only get one chance" is the most toxic lie ever told. The music industry is a fcked up place, and I thank God my dad was here to help me navigate it.
I’m 40 years old and I write/ record rap, R&B, Soul trap. I would never stop writing! I’ve inspired many in my life to get started and that feeling alone is enough to keep me going. ❤
Golden Years of creativity are as you get experience.
Your audience grows with you
This video gives me hope. I keep going through these cycles of feeling excited and hopeful to feeling deflated. In my 30s with a tiny social circle. Thanks for this mate
Thanks for this! Pretty much how we're feeling as a duo in our mid thirties. Many blessing to you all and your creative journeys. Your gift to the world is you, and the expression of it and your experience through your art.
I'm saving this to watch whenever I need a reminder. This is gold.
I learned that... "If it's your calling, it'll keep on calling"
I needed to see this video for real because lately I been feeling a little unmotivated thanks for real I needed this
This channel always seeds faith in myself and my path whenever I interact with it. Thank you.
Much of the way that I used to see the world was part and parcel with being young, and the hubris and particular blindness that always entails.
You miss the energy level and the certainty, but at the same time, you freely understand all the basic ways you were wrong.I do wish that that the good aspects that stood the test of time could be found in younger artists coming up, but they are instead unique to my perspective, and will be lost if I don't put them out there.
The thing that helps me is disconnecting from the belief of age. It's just a system of numbers you can follow or not, but at the end of the day.....your not age X. What you really are, is alive. And as long as your alive, that's all that matters.
I have been in music for nearly 30 years. The older i get.. the more ARTISTIC FREEDOM i feel. Me nuh care bt dem hater no more! Yuh zimeh?
For many youth is spent attaining responsibility and family etc. This makes the unincumbered pursuit of creative goals unsuportable. So later years can allow us the opportunity for those creative pursuits we did not have before. Creativity is a life long expression.
When i was younger my writing was definitely more charged. It had more fire, but the fact is fire burns indiscriminately. I had no focus and my ability to learn the things i needed to learn suffered greatly. I needed to focus on completing certain steps that required all types of investment, and i was just exploding on paper instead. I am a firm believer that no time spent writing is time wasted. I can still use those lyrics, in its entirety or maybe revised a bit. The beauty of lyrics is it captures emotion and energy that can be harnessed at any time. I can perform them and feel what i was feeling, it was me, so i can step into that energy even all these years later. The difference is, im older now with the ability to do something with it. I have more patience now. My work isnt so rushed like i have a time limit and i realize its all a process. A real artists work comes together like puzzle peices when its time. You just have to look at the whole thing as a timeline, a process, and invest yourself into your art with patience and understanding.
It’s my 22nd birthday today, you wouldn’t believe how great the timing is on this video lmao I woke up today feeling like it was too late for me. Thank you
These are such profound ideas. The best art comes from the most honest of places. Thank you for encouraging others to be themselves and express their true selves. This is so needed 😊❤
As a woman this is felt 10 fold because the whole world tries to instill in us that our value lies in our youth. It’s constantly trying to unlearn and hold strong against these debilitating societal beliefs
We live in a day of age of infantile music. When I was a kid, sure some of the trendy artists were "young", but life was different and harder back in the days, hence why those artists didn't come across as being "just young". They already lived. This phenomena of 15 years old succeeding is a relatively new thing, and soon it will die out. People wanna hear real people, not just the teenage heartbreak songs. Also, people will stay younger and age different anyways, so we should stop saying someone is old.
This is such a great video. Thank you for this ❤
This might have been the greatest gift I’ve ever received on TH-cam. I needed this today, found it right after meditation. ❤Thank you
Every single thing Miley has done in the last 5 years has been absolutely fucking essential. The woman has Lived a Whole Life. And it shows.
I’m nearly 50 years old and have always played drums and back up vocals for other bands and groups ect , have now started working on some original music of my own , finally lol
Took me till the age of 34 to “ make it “
Over thinking Is big one , but also under thinking is another lol finding that middle ground is something that usually takes some time.
I’ve just found this channel. It may be the most important content I’ve ever found! Thank you! What a brilliant young man you are!
I used to write songs that most people didn't seem to enjoy and I wasn't seeing tangible results. But I wasn't presenting it to the right audience. Then I started to learn about marketing pop to the masses. I wrote songs that were inauthentic and pandering. Now, I use methods to write songs that are catchy and maybe fiction yet not contrived cliche bullshit. Stay true to yourself all of the way.
Turning 96 tomorrow but still think I can make it.
Just have to figure out how to use TikTok
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congratulations!!
So grateful for your channel! keep going - artists need it
after 7 years of making music, 4 LPs i released I'm slowly starting to feel that i'm finding my way. be patient Guys.
and btw - thanks for your movies - my self developing time of a week
No matter what your age Drop that heat Music never dies.
I really appreciate this video man. Incredible work