The other side of music I’ve known is the personal side. It’s about people who make music a personal thing. I mean, there’s the outside, but then there’s the inside. The music you don’t run all over the place telling people about it, because if they want it, they’ll be searching for it in the first place. It’s more of a quiet epidemic… they hear you play it… catch something from your headphones, and won’t stop asking till they find out.

It’s the two niches I’ve never failed to see… sometimes it’s the brand name versus the white-label. Other times it’s a genre versus a ‘mistake’. But there’s always a haze in between.

Yet the artist side is a bit different, I think. For me, I take my music like a therapy, and I identify with it when I listen. I compose music like administering a drug. I use careful doses, I measure it out according to how hard my week or month has been. I sip it slow or I guzzle it down. And so, I think a different thing goes on for artists, because I know a for me at least… every song I’ve made has had a different influence.

Some compose for the glory. Some create for the money. There’s as many reasons for one as the other. And I feel like some people will even try to mascarade as hot stuff outside the limelight. That’s right, I think that not just the popular people, but also other artists who try to take the unpopular side of music for a ride too. A lot of what you mentioned here, about some artists who are seeking to make original and unique tunes… I think that this article might miss the point that there’s an ugly side to it as well.

But there will always be a noble group (at least in my own eyes, they’re ‘noble’ in some idealistic since. Forgive me that). Some people have the realization that it’s an amazing gift for both sides of this thing we call “music”. It’s humbling to be someone people want to listen to, and it’s humbling to be allowed to listen to someone. I try to stay in that crowd because I believe it’s the origin of music. There’s no way you can be a purist about it, but the mentality seems to work for me, at least. I’d like to think I’m still in this group, despite not really having a name for it.