Lol I spend my life telling me brain not to say things like that out loud but that one got through! Appreciate it dude 🙂🙂

@@DamianKeyes no way. We need more clever idioms. The cheekier the better.

Was just about to comment on the same thing, I was dying after a few seconds passed and I figured it out. 😂😂😂. Wtf.

Gold 😂

That's weird, have you talked to your aggregator about this? Sounds like it is confusing your music or the data. I would chat to your aggregator and find out why.

​@DamianKeyes I will do that, thanks!

DAMN!

Yes. Instagram, TikTok, KZfaq. Instagram is the worst because there is no way to appeal. It's just "audio removed, 'cause it can belong to someone else". And nothing you can do about it.

STEVE! How's it going? Hope all is well with you back in the motherland! Appreciate you dude! 🙂🙂

@@DamianKeyes Pressing on Damo, just back from Cardiff. I often have your voice in my head telling me what I should be trying next. Would love a chat sometime. 😊

Great advice overall i have been following you and using your advice for some of all my releases ... problem i come across is money in terms pf budget but i use what i have as i did on the recent project

Sorry Matt, you are right, I've been slack but I have made a bunch of new ideas and videos this week so I'll stay on it. Appreciate you mate! 🙂🙂

@@DamianKeyes Can’t wait bro! Your videos are what I rely on the most in this era of information haha. Quick question about your tip on Shadow bans. I’m a Christian artist but I’m not over the top crazy on pushing things down people’s throats. I just want to share the gospel through my songs and try to hit the right people. I see lots of artists having success with this. Is there a point where socials start to see becoming “too pushy” and that’s what causes the shadow ban? Great video man!

Thank you so much, appreciate you 😊😊

Hey dude, this is such a great question, I have just made a video about this for next week about the reality of being an artist and how to deal with the struggles. It will be out on Monday (Hopefully) hope it helps. Appreciate you🙂🙂

@@DamianKeyes MY-MAN!

😂 We all live by the 3 second rule surely 🙂🙂

Really appreciate this, thank you so much 🙂🙂

Convince yourself writers block doesn’t exist, if you can speak a sentence/bar then you can write one. Don’t judge your work before you finish it, finish then edit later. Read the book The Artist’s Way & do the exercises. Watch the KZfaq video titled “Ira Glass on The Creative Process.” These things deleted writers block from existence for me, good luck chief 🫡

You might want to try out journaling every day and just write down anything stream of consciousness. (If you’re a morning person, obviously go for mornings, and if you’re a night owl, then go for trying that out at night without distractions). It doesn’t even have to be sentences. Can just be phrases, run on sentences, words, etc. I have personally found that I’ve been able to go back and pull lots of lyrics from my journal entries. And ANY TIME you hear a phrase in your head or a melody in your head, always have your cell phone nearby (so you have a way to quickly record yourself) to where you can at least hum the melody or speak the potential lyrics or phrases to go back to later. So many times I’ve thought that it would come back to me later, but instead it was lost to me. So, I just try to be a good steward of what seems to find me out of no where, whether I wake up with it, or I’m driving, or taking a shower and it just comes to me. Also, I find when I make sure I’m getting out to go hear inspiring live music, that tends to inspire the creative in me to start jotting down phrases or just picking up my guitar more to play around on it. Also, there are times when I just pick my guitar up and am playing around on it just because and not even trying to stumble across a new melody and that will sometimes be when I do stumble across some melody ideas. AND sometimes we just need to go LIVE LIFE and make meaningful memories with friends/family/a significant other, etc….allow ourselves to laugh or cry and feel deeply whatever is surfacing in the moment. Just having time to connect with others and hear their stories as well as their hearts and learning to listen well just because you genuinely care. Unplugging and getting away for the day or weekend and having some quiet reflective time to be still, dream, or read a creatively well written book, etc. These are simply some things that have naturally been helpful for me personally, but I know we all have our process. IF I was able to co-write with other singer/songwriters, I absolutely would, but unfortunately my creative process just doesn’t unfold for me that way. Also, just making space for writing without distractions or pressure and just enjoy writing and creating just because you enjoy it can be beneficial. Hope this at least is a little bit helpful and encouraging. All the best to you! I’m sure Damien would have some excellent tips on this as well!

@@annedavismusic Thanks for writing all of that! I’ll make sure to take all of it into consideration!

@@nolancriderAlways happy to help!😊

Sometimes listen to instrumentals and practice with your own lyrics on you tube

Even more reason to go harder 🪖

@@mikelavish 🔥🔥🔥

Are you doing music for others? You shouldn't even start then. You should do it for yourself and share with the world, that's the right order!

The problem is not you, "old lost loser". The problem is hyper-sensitive people on social media (especially younger people). Artistic people sometimes have a "more open" sense of humour that can offend them easily because they see it as too abrasive. People these days in general take things too seriously. Hate is sometimes not a good thing, sometimes it's the case that you are right and the crowd is wrong. As an artistic type of person who has battled depression myself, I understand that you were using a metaphor, not trying to say anything bad about depression... Long story short: social media is full of dickheads. Be glad that you didn't become one of them by replying 👍

Absolutely, you can buy fake likes for a post or fake followers for very little money and most companies promise real followers or real like but they aren’t the right demographic. With regards ads, making content and pin pointing the right demographic (age, location, interests etc) means you are more in control but while it’s real it’s more expensive. My advice is to start with content that gets organic reach and until you me content is getting good reach don’t spend much money on case it breaks the algorithm 😊😊

He means don't release music the same week you upload it to your distributor. Upload it and set the release don't for 4 weeks ahead so you can plan your release and Spotify has the time to look at it and you can pitch it etc

@@ZakRoams Thanks for clarifying! That's smart.

I would suggest starting wiht posting your music because you are passionate about it and want more feedback. I would concentrate on making quality content for socials to show it off to get some feedback. And I would also start finding people you trust to give you honest feeback. You could also try websites like SubmitHub and Playlist Push however they can often be quite brutal with their responses and feedback. If you are stuck www.dk-mba.com, we have a community where we can help with this stuff and strategising 🙂🙂

Good question, you can set the release date on Spotify so it doesn’t come out automatically. Many artists disregard the month lead up and just get it out without pitching it promoting

Let me see what I can do 🙂🙂

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@@hiyouseemcool Absolutely correct. Just don't say it on radio because some cunts can't handle it!

Good point, i think it does depend on what country and what genre but i think it's fair to say it's certainly dying out fast! 🙂🙂

@@DamianKeyes I think most music featuring explicit lyrics is gangster rap, heavy metal, maybe harder electronic music. Not really the type of music which is usually played at the radio.

I need to hear it! 🙂🙂

Don't worry i get my fair share of hate. Some of it funny but some can be brutal! Don't take it to heart, it's mostly unf***able people with too much time on their hands. hurt people hurt people! We're all in this together!! 🙂🙂

They defo do and even if they don't it does effect their algorithm for the worse 🙂🙂

While I agree that music is at the heart of the strategy, who gets to say whether music is ‘good’ or not? Music is subjective, would you say your music is good or should you wait and get better? Also if your music is good enough, would it be good enough if you hadn’t learnt your trade by creating a lot of music to gain experience? Just playing devils advocate. I would say most people believe in their music even if others don’t 😊

There he is! Nik I have been working on your socials today for a case study. Will get it over to Mirella tomorrow and if you are in the live session today I have some other ideas in case you are around! Appreciate you dude, you are so consistent and positive and it's a blessing! 🙂🙂

Yeah it's a tough gig for so many reasons. Defo easier selling pencils that's for sure! 🙂🙂

You are right about America being obsessed with her 🙂🙂

Their obsession with her bland music is unhealthy, I mean America has much greater artists than her vocally lyrically and artistically, to portray Taylor as the best America can offer is degrading to America

​@@DamianKeyes as an european i totally dont understand why taylor swift is popular. I just dont get why she's so famous. Its bland music to me. Is it because she's Kind of the archetype of a little Princess ?

😂 I do apologise! I’ll try and make the next one in the style of Snoop Dogg or Darth Vader!

I'm not great at A&R but keep smashing it 🙂🙂