⚠️ God has said in the Quran:

🔵 { O mankind, worship your Lord, who created you and those before you, that you may become righteous - ( 2:21 )

🔴 [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him]. ( 2:22 )

🔵 And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [Muhammad], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful. ( 2:23 )

🔴 But if you do not - and you will never be able to - then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.( 2:24 )

🔵 And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally. ( 2:25 )

⚠️ Quran

Nostr is the way social media should be. Community based that rely on charity and lifting others up! Not rubbish click bait and ads everywhere that pushes you to consume more rubbish.

On the nose too dead center my friend. I can speak to this front he perspective of both an artist, performer and venue owner -as well as from a label perspective.

I'm scared to jinx it. But Nostr space has all the makings of the protocol to change it all and I am glad to be a part of it, even releasing music through.

I direly dispise social media and basicy always have. I am not a promoter or marketer, but have had to play that role for way to long uncomfortabley to stay in the game.

Often this is how great artists get tangled in bad contracts with crap labels who have massive marketing power to build and destroy them.

Look up The Murder City Devils if you want to see the prime example of labels destroying something beautiful

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Man, I appreciate this post. You hit it on the head. Touring is exciting in the early days, but it’s a grind and unsustainable for most. Even if the band is successful, the pie split many ways amongst musicians and crew often doesn’t amount to much.

It’s true focus on creating has suffered as a result. The early file sharing years were an exciting prospect before the tech companies put their hands in. Nostr/BTC really completes the distribution and financial loop missing from then (and now).

All the musicians I know usually love playing gigs, but not every gig. They often feel they have to take shit gigs to get their name out. Its pretty normal to get paid a couple hundred bucks and a drink voucher for a 4 piece band. After gas and bar tab, most musicians walk out with less in their pockets than they came in with. Some musicians straight up pay to play. And not always because they just love it so much...

It's usually because thats the only way they feel they can continue pushing to get their name out there.

This valueverse, demu, v4v ecosystem - whatever the fuck we're calling it, finally gives artists options. They can keep grinding and add this as additional reach/income. Or they can do this instead of shit gigs so they can focus on whatever else they deem more worthy.

Its powerful because in this ecosystem, the cream rises to the top on merit. Artists aren't hamstrung by a third party telling them what to do or how to do it. Perfecting their craft isn't in lieu of marketing. Sheer strength of talent and proof of work to produce the best music IS the marketing.

I played professionally full time for over 12 years.

The money (value) is in the live performances. Bitcoin won’t fix this economics reality