jokes aside, everyone asks me if I am AI

even my ex 😂🤣

I think I’m just a strong communicator ?

sometimes a man in a woman’s body ?

I am a real whooman, I too bleed & make mistake 🩸

I didn’t always like the idea of having a beard, but then it grew on me. 😬🫡

‘and now’ ?

What makes you look even more like a psycho is calling the question marks exclamation points 🤣

#[0] What is the number one thing preventing artists from becoming their own record label??

My first thought is that promotion isn’t really fixed by bitcoin/nostr. But Bitcoin does make it possible to stream sats to the artist while listening to their music.. that could be cool. Podcast apps are already doing that, when music

I agree. Sometimes less is more. It's the same for content creators as myself on sites such as Twitch and co. Those sites take up to 50% from all donations and subscriptions and some even have the guts to demand exclusivity on your live content. For Twitch that means if you want to be affiliated we'll take 50% of your money for our cloud service and you may not restream at the same time. I take the 50% cut for the extra exposure and to drive my viewers to another site but I will not give you exclusivity over MY content so no affiliation for me. - also means I don't get subs or donations on Twitch.

I think decentralised distribution, audio and video networks have a huge opportunity in the years to come if they BUIDL solid brands. Some are already thriving but not so much for musicians.

What I meant with that was that most musicians probably don't have the distribution network or partnerships to get their music out to the masses.

I have a friend who's been a musician most of his life, he produces, he dj's, he's writing plugins for the hardware he's using and he had labels down the road. several. Yet he never got "that" exposure he kinda deserves.

Sure, he's on spotify and other platforms. he even tried CHOON in 2018 who was going to "give the power back to the artists", then they rugged and they came back as ROCKI. But anyhow. I think that distribution and marketing to get wider exposure is where most musicans probably hit a barrier. I hope this makes sense and if you want to check out my buddy (don't want spam here) look for Theatre of Delays on spotify or on my timeline here.

Absolutely yes, especially when we start building visual content. The interaction on Nostr is beautiful 🥹

distribution network

When I started, I had to engineer, produce, compose, write, and perform my own album. The album got an Angel investment to build a bedroom studio/home studio.

Publishing has to be established. It’s still all pulling together.

I’m at the stage where I have a really strong team.

Here in New York as well, a list of nightclubs who want performances - which is the real profit maker, along with NFTs, paid hourly rates on producing others.

I’m no expert on this, but a problem I would like to see addressed is rewarding music curators.

On YouTube creators get rewarded, but in the past radio DJs were highly valued to unearth new talent.

Rewarding the music curators not just the creators would help unearth and promote new talent.

I’m an artist who created my own record label ☺️ Probably the admin work is too much for most artists.

promotion, thats the main advantage of being on a label.

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