Are you the type of musician who have become a target on the internet by the music community, who have been made fun of, ridiculed, and been bullied by other musicians and people in the local music community? I’m sure a lot of musicians have dealt with it. I’ve dealt with it for years. You just want to be a musician just like everyone else. Have fun playing music and get yourself out there, and you can’t figure out why people are making fun of you or laughing at you. They would laugh at the way you post online or how you make your music, or they just make fun of who you are as a person. I’m not the only one who have been treated this way. There are several other musicians I’ve known who have been treated badly by the public, I won’t name names.

Remember the old saying, “sometimes bad publicity is good”? It’s true if you think about it. All they are doing is giving you more attention, when they are not even realizing it. I’ve gotten more fans and supporters because of all this hate going around, so sometimes it helps. Just do your best and ignore all drama, and negative bullshit. Keep playing your music and fuck the world, ya know? Haters are gonna hate, pure and simple.

If people want to make fun of me, let ’em do it ’cause all it’s doing is that it’s good promotion for your music. It’ll get other people thinking, “Hmmm, why are people picking on this guy? I better check him out to see what he’s like”, and then they end up liking you after listening to your music. See what I mean?

The reason other musicians try to destroy your musical dreams publicly is that they want to think they are better than you, that’s pretty much it, really. They think they are “established” musicians, that they feel the need to ridicule those who are not at their level. It’s an “ego” thing for sure. As I explained plenty of times before, if music is what you like to do, then continue to do it, no matter what anybody says or thinks. Keep going. Think about it, whether you get bad publicity or good publicity, it’s all “good” publicity either way.

While it is very unprofessional, childish and lame for other musicians to treat musicians this way, you just got to learn how to deal with it if you want to become a successful musician. How do you think so many major label bands & artists get signed? They get a mix of hate and love, but they kept going, not caring what anyone else thought of them. Just stay positive no matter what happens. If you keep getting people hating on you, just ignore it completely.

I keep writing this stuff on here, ’cause it’s my way of reminding myself not to reply to all the bullshit, and so far it’s working great. If people are talking about you, good or bad, that means you’re doing something right.

Kev