Three speakers argue that sustainable music success requires identifying a personal "why" beyond fame. They warn against expecting Justin Bieber-level stardom from five songs, emphasizing that your purpose for making music must be as strong as your talent to survive setbacks and the long grind ahead.
Ultimately, if you send an unrealistic, you know, if I'm not Justin Bieber within five songs released, I'm out of here. It's like, well, then you probably shouldn't even start.
Yeah, yeah. Have your why ready. Know what your why is, and don't lie to yourself about it. If you just want people to love you, great, great, whatever. But if you really want to play music and your message is meaningful and maybe you want to help people or whatever, if you don't know what that is, and I'm telling you right now a lot, don't. If you don't know what that is, you're never going to get there ever, ever, ever. So figure your why out before you go do anything. Yeah, your why is.
Going to matter to you.
It's got to matter. It's. It's the most important. It's the most important thing because you need to understand that this is. This is not a sprint. This is a marathon. And it takes, you know, years of building. Nobody, nobody is an overnight success. Like Mark said. There's, you know, it's that. That meme with the tip of the iceberg and everything else underneath it that it takes to get there. It's, you know, it's. It's day in and day out working and working hard and getting through those things. You know, there might be a. A big thing that you thought was going to happen that ends up falling.
Through, and you need to be able to lift.
That why is the thing that's going to lift you back up and keep you going. So your why has to be, you know, as strong as your talent. Because without the why, like Mark said, it's. You're going to get chewed up and you're in. Something's going to happen, and that's going to stop you, you know, having your mindset. Right? Like, you know, we've had a few people come in and be like, yeah, you know, if it doesn't happen in, like, five, you know, five songs, then. Then, you know, the music thing is probably just not going to work out.
And I was like, let me help.
You. It's not going to work out. Yeah, yeah.
It'S. It's literally what we've said. We're like, it's not going to work out. It's just not going to happen. You're not going to break in five songs.
But if you wake up every morning so excited to finish that tune or show people that tune or, you know, create your branding, if this is something you can't live without, and you just keep going, you'll get it.
