All musicians know this feeling, you just created a new song, put hours and hours within this song. You believe it's finally perfect, you've been listening to it over and over again. You think it's your best work yet. You go to upload it on some type of social music website, you pick the perfect picture, you hit the browse button to find your music you're gonna upload. With the music ready to send you sit there and stare at the screen. You wonder if anyone even cares, which is a frightening proposition. It's not a matter of rather anyone will like your music, its a matter of if anyone will listen to it. I'm not scared of public opinion. I'm scared of the lack of. Who knew the internet could be such a lonely place.

Behind keyboard warriors, trolls, and the frequent poster. You would think the internet would be a great place to share your music. But, there is a mental barrier to it. That hard work that you have put in to the music you have currently made. You would think you would be eager to put your music out there. But, that is not always the case. If I did put it out there who would even want to listen to it. These emotions that I put into these lyrics, the part of my personality that I put in this instrumental. Everything about this song is apart of me. If I put it out there it would be like tearing my heart out of my chest, and putting it on a platter for everyone to see. Please take a stab at it. Sure some will praise it, but most people will think they know better. What's even worse is that most people will ignore it. My heart will be left out in the open with not a single person to even notice it. To me that is worse than someone taking notice to it and poking it. Because, for someone to poke at it would be for someone to notice it in the first place.

That being said the next time you see someone posting their music on social media. Give it a listen. Even if it's "not your style". Take a second to listen to the lyrics. Take a second to listen to the instrumental. Close your eyes, and imagine a dark place. With every strum, beat, high note, low note, and rhyme. Picture a bright light taking place in the middle of this dark place. It's illuminating a city that's been dark for quite some time. You see the graffiti on the walls are telling a story. If that story is something you can't relate to by the end of the song, then that's fine. But, with every listen you're illuminating the musicians dark city. When the musician see's that his work got another listen, he realizes maybe people do care? This goes against the tone of his dark lyrics. With every listen you're out to prove the musician wrong of his idea of pain and darkness. You're illuminating him, as he's hoping to illuminate you.

Illuminate my city @ https://soundcloud.com/user-116733694