Noel Gallagher says great music can't stay hidden in the internet age, and Evan Carmichael argues that technology has removed external barriers to success. Your subscriber count, your income, your life reflects the work you actually put in. Stop blaming parents, schools, or the algorithm. The gap between where you are and where you want to be is on you.
Good morning, Believe Nation. Today's message is Be Great. Over to you, Noel Gallagher.
There can't be the greatest band in the world playing in a pub somewhere tonight that nobody's heard of with the internet. If you're great, you're going to make it.
Yeah.
You know, that's just a fact. You know, there's not— there can't be any— well, we didn't make it because, you know, we're working class or something, you know what I mean? It's like, if you're writing the best songs in the world, you're going to make it. The end. When Oasis came along, we didn't have the internet. You know, if we'd have had the internet, we'd have been bigger than the universe, you know what I mean? We could have reached everybody.
Yeah.
You know, but we did it— we were forced to do it the hard way. You know, these new bands have all the advantage of you know, these devices that can get you to everybody in the world at the click of a button. And, you know, all they've got to come up with is— all right, yeah, the difficult bit is the fucking songs.
It's never been easier to win if you're talented. There's nobody holding you back. There's nobody saying that you can't have success. And never has it been easier to win regardless of where you come from, regardless of how much money you have, or who your parents are, what country you're from, or who your friends are. It's never been easier to win. It's never been more about meritocracy, about earning it. And so if you're not achieving the success that you think you deserve to have, it's nobody else's fault. Stop making excuses. Stop blaming other people. Take some accountability. It's you. You are where you are because of you. You are where you are because you're not adding enough value to other people's lives. And you can. But it only starts to happen when you accept the responsibility. Because as long as it's somebody else's fault, as long as your school's fault, your parents' fault, or the president's fault, or somebody else's fault, then you're never going to take the action because you have the easy way out. Because you're great, you're amazing, and it's this person's fault. You know, it's my ex-husband's fault, it's my business partner's fault, it's my family's fault. It's always somebody else's fault, and that's going to be the story for the rest of your life. And you're never going to reach the potential you can have because you don't want to, because you want to stay stuck where you are. You want to just keep blaming other people and never actually take those big steps forward. You deserve every bit of success that you have, both in a good way and a bad way. And I like to say this on my YouTube channel— people say that I've had a lot of success with the YouTube channel and 600,000 subscribers and all that. So on the one hand, I deserve those 600,000 subscribers. Because I've been putting out a lot of work, a lot of hustle, a lot of energy, a lot of love, a lot of heart, blood, sweat, tears goes into making these videos for you every day. So I deserve to have 600,000 subscribers. A lot of people will leave comments saying, man, your videos are so good, you deserve to have 6 million subscribers. I don't deserve 6 million subscribers, not yet. Like, my stuff isn't good enough yet. I'm not good enough yet. Our process isn't good enough yet. The research isn't good enough yet. The editing isn't good enough yet. It's not good enough yet. You guys don't watch every single video that I make on the channel and then instantly share it with your friends. Every video we make doesn't go viral because it's not good enough. Some of them take off and blow up and others don't. I didn't provide enough value to you guys. You don't want to share it. And that's not on you. It's not like my audience sucks and they don't share it. I'm so good and they're not sharing it. It's on them. It's on my audience because they're not sharing my stuff. Or it's the YouTube algorithm. Stupid YouTube algorithm is destroying me, right? As long as it's some other reason, then I'm not going to work harder to get better. So I don't deserve to have 6 million subscribers. I'm not down on myself. I deserve to have the 600K. I'm happy with that. I did a lot of work to get here. I'm not saying that I suck. I don't suck. I'm good, but I'm not 6 million good. I need to get there. I want to get better. I'm hungry to get there. I want to add more value to you guys. I look up to other speakers who've had tons of success like Les Brown and Tony Robbins, and I want to learn from them to make myself better. And so you deserve to be where you are. If you produce good stuff in this era, it will take off. It's so easy to share. There are no gatekeepers. There are no limits anymore. There's nobody that you need to get in touch with and that person is going to make you a star. You can make yourself a star now. The problem is you're not good enough yet, and that's a hard pill to swallow. To swallow. But if you do swallow it and you accept it, then it forces you to get better. And the good thing is you realize that you have the tools to go out and get better. You can change the course of your life because you don't rely on gatekeepers or anybody else making you a star. You can make it happen for yourself if you want to put in the work to getting better. There is nobody holding you back from achieving success but yourself. So the question of the day today is, I'm curious, What's the reason you're telling yourself you're not more successful? I'm curious, are you blaming somebody else, or have you blamed somebody or something else in the past? I'm curious, leave it down in the comments below, we'll join in the discussion. I also wanna give a quick shout out to Tommy Gonzalez. Tommy, thank you so much for picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word. It really, really, really means a lot to me, and I hope you're enjoying the read. Thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. And I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso. Hey, Believe Nation, thank you so much for watching. If you want to learn more about this subject, get a little bit deeper on it, I'm going to share some extra bonus clips that I hope you'll enjoy.
I don't understand the industry. I don't understand— I don't understand where music is headed. I don't really understand technology. I just know that when you walk into a club and you see a band that blows you away, you are gonna follow that band. You're gonna either buy their CD or you're gonna find them online or you're gonna see them the next time they come to play. You don't have to stand in line at the song contest on TV to become a popular musician. Product placement and labels and A&R people and all that bullshit, it doesn't matter. Matter, I swear to God. It doesn't matter. And if you back that up with the idea that just playing those great songs in your great live band is enough reward for you, then you're fucking set. But you gotta be badass. You just have to be really good. It's the other things that make up for your musical inability. You know, I mean, as a drummer, I never felt like I'm gonna be on the COVID of Modern Drummer magazine because I'm the best fucking drummer in the world. I just knew that if you put me on stage without a fucking PA or floor monitors in a small club, that I would beat the fucking shit out of my drums so much that people would go, "Goddamn, did you see that fucking drummer?" Whoa.
