Before people get mad at the title of this topic, let me explain. Hell, some of you out there may even agree with me! A lot of musicians and music fans mistakenly believe that musicians playing in bands or acoustic solo, they make music to please as many people as possible, when in reality, that’s what music shouldn’t be about. There are reasons that someone wants to become a musician or singer or whatever. Many personal reasons. Not just for the enjoyment and fun, but playing music helps make them become a better person. Playing music is a good stress reliever for people. Playing music makes people stronger and happier. Can help people have better things in life. Making music helps people go through good and bad times in life. Helps people keep going and stay alive. Those are the reasons why I play music.

If I don’t get popularity or don’t get recognized with my music, I’m okay with that. If I get other people hating my music and think I suck, I’m okay with that. You should be okay with it too. As long as you’re creating music for yourself, creating art, making yourself happy, that’s the only thing that should matter. I feel good being what I am. A musician and songwriter. It’s pretty much all I have in life, you know? I don’t know what else I do if I didn’t do this.

You can play whatever genre of music makes you happy. Write songs however you want to write them, and not caring what anyone else thinks. Sometimes there are people that tell me how to write songs how they want to, and sometimes people tell me to play what genre of music I shouldn’t be playing. For example, people told me I should be a country & folk songwriter, but that’s not me. I’m a rock n’ roller and quite proud of it, thank you.

Metallica is a perfect example that fits this topic. That bands just plays whatever music pleases them, not caring what other people think. If they want to move away from the speed metal genre and try other things, they can feel free to do that. That’s the power of music. The freedom to do whatever you want to do.

I like people supporting my music, don’t get me wrong, but music should be about making yourself happy, that’s it. You don’t have to stop because other people want you to and you can’t let those haters/doubters bring you down ’cause people want to see you fail in music, that’s why they are what they are, trolls and haters. You don’t have to be music perfectionists. You don’t have to take yourself seriously. Just play to make yourself happy. That’s what music is here for.

Kev