Numbers
Everyone is posting their Spotify numbers this week, and while it’s important celebrating successes, metrics like these can be misleading, even potentially destructive.
Sharing art is not about numbers. It is not a competition.
If you must attach a reward to it, have it be the satisfaction derived from being the kind of beautiful lunatic courageous enough to follow a dream.
To every artist reading this, myself included - I hear you, I see you, and the world’s a better place with your music in it.