Sometimes I just don’t understand the music world. Why there’s sometimes a bit of bullying and negativity around music with other musicians. I learned that if you want to have a better career in music and if you want people to respect you as a musician more, you need to watch how you post online. I’m learning from my past mistakes, and learning to let the past be the past, and keep it that way. I’ll admit that the way I posted online in the past was bad, and I regretted it. The reason I did what I did long ago, was that I was calling out people by name of musicians who were negative nancies and called out the ones that bullied me over the years. I’ll admit that what I’ve done was kind of childish on my part and wish I could have handled that stuff a little better. When you become defensive of yourself like that, it makes other people think that you’re the badguy instead. Musicians still have a problem defending themselves over negative things written about them online, so they reply to everything, calling them out and trying to defend themselves. That stuff is still a huge problem today, I see it in facebook with musicians all the time and on craigslist too.

Why do musicians feel the need to be negative online? It’s not just an ego thing, there’s more to it than that. It’s just their way of trying to get more people to pay more attention to them. It’s like a, “Hey, nobody respects me as a musician, so respect me,” kind of thing. That’s pretty much the main reason some of them do it. They think they’re playing and musicianship is talented. They think they are god or something, and when they learn that not many people respect them, they do whatever it takes to get people to respect them. Know what I mean? That’s why some of these musicians go on these daily negative rants in facebook, or even worse, criticizing or bullying other musicians, or putting down the music scene.

When music fans and other musicians see this musician being negative in facebook or some other social media site, they will give this musician support to make him/her feel better. It’s just their secret way of promoting themselves and getting themselves out there. So is a musician acting like however you want publicly a good thing?

Knowing from my past experiences about this, no it isn’t good. Understand how good and bad karma works. If you become a good guy, you will get good things out of your career and better opportunities will come. If you become a bad guy, you’re just going to kill your chances in achieving your dreams, you won’t get anywhere. The way you post online, really affects your professionalism. You may have a personal facebook page, separate from your music pages, but yes, you must be careful how you post in your personal pages as well.

If you want to be a respected musician, you can’t be an attention whore to get it. You earn the respect by being a talented musician and acting like a professional.

Kev