In the music world, I believe that the best thing that ever happened to me musically, was when I did that Whitney Houston tribute video. In early, Spring, shortly after Whitney died, I posted a tribute video covering one of her songs, and that video suddenly went viral. It got over a little 700 views. People started giving it positive feedback everywhere, and I couldn’t believe it. I honestly didn’t think, people would like it that much, ya know? I kept thinking it was going to suck and people wouldn’t care. Turns out, I was wrong.

That’s what I hope for with all my music, ya know? I want people to enjoy it, care about it, and respect my talent like all musicians. That’s the kind of response, I would like to get with my original music too.

Which is why I have decided to take guitar instruction more seriously. Get practicing and learning music. Get better with my songwriting and cover tunes.

This year, I plan to get back into this music thing. Take songwriting more seriously. Try to stop writing dark, and controversial songs. Try to write more positive and family friendly stuff. Songs about love and hope. Songs that people can relate to. Maybe more autobiographical songs. I gotta try to stop writing political songs too. As a songwriter, you can’t help what you write. Sometimes you can’t help writing dark & controversial stuff, ya know what I mean? You just write whatever comes to your mind.

I gotta get back into lyric writing, ’cause I haven’t done that in a while ’cause I’ve been more focused practicing guitar. I think this year, I want to start reading more poetry, so I can make my lyrics a little more poetic, rather than telling a story. Take my songwriting to a different direction.

I can’t tell my own talent. I just let the people do the judging and let the music speak on it’s own. You either like it or you don’t, but I do hope people will like it more. That’s always been my goal. I know I’m mostly well known as a blogger, but I can somehow become more respected as a songwriter, sometime down the road.  I just got to work hard and keep going with the music. Ignore those haters and doubters who want to shoot down your dreams, and keep going. I’ll be playing music ’til I’m dead. I don’t give a rats ass what anyone else thinks.

Kev