There's a Rick Rubin quote (paraphrasing) that the price of getting to create art is sharing it.
The best art is the kind other people can connect to. The kind people most connect to is where there is complete honesty, total vulnerability. This goes for everything from songwriting to TikTok making. I connected to this.
been off social media for a few years now, and each year it reveals something new. i'm realizing that i'd internalized its panopticon effect for so long... one of the nice things about being off is feeling that "constant surveillance" dissolve, and really doubling down on sincerely liking things. i actually get surprised when i hear something is "cringe" according to the internet after having a neutral or even positive reaction to it. best part, i suppose, is shrugging after... and continuing to like it anyway. (i actually found that down bad lyric to be catchy and good lol... it's kind of a vibe.)
i always wonder what being offline a bit more would do for my mind... but also i'm so entrenched in it for promoting my work and digesting the things i write about at this point
There's a Rick Rubin quote (paraphrasing) that the price of getting to create art is sharing it.
The best art is the kind other people can connect to. The kind people most connect to is where there is complete honesty, total vulnerability. This goes for everything from songwriting to TikTok making. I connected to this.
been off social media for a few years now, and each year it reveals something new. i'm realizing that i'd internalized its panopticon effect for so long... one of the nice things about being off is feeling that "constant surveillance" dissolve, and really doubling down on sincerely liking things. i actually get surprised when i hear something is "cringe" according to the internet after having a neutral or even positive reaction to it. best part, i suppose, is shrugging after... and continuing to like it anyway. (i actually found that down bad lyric to be catchy and good lol... it's kind of a vibe.)
i always wonder what being offline a bit more would do for my mind... but also i'm so entrenched in it for promoting my work and digesting the things i write about at this point
I relate to this a lot in my own writing. I think back to being a teenager and never overthought as much as I do now.