How do you not get depressed about the fact that making great music is so much less lucrative than making trite garbage? The most interesting metal bands have like 100k Spotify listeners, max. Meanwhile nonsense like Slipknot gets 16 million. Being a classical composer isn't really even a career anymore. Is it even worth pursuing music?
>>129840399>Being a classical composer isn't really even a career anymoreMovies, games, animations... being a classically trained composer still pays but the job is competitive
>>129840422Who wants that?
>>129840399It's not worth it and I urge you to not try.
>>129840422Truthnuke, this is like the most overlooked shit but often the most profound. Soundtracks can make or break a piece and they should be revered as such. OP check out “Reborn” from the Hereditary soundtrack
>>129840399Pursue music as someone who enjoys creating music not for a goal of money and everything turns out feeling a lot better.
>>129840473I mean yeah but if I'm going to make anything good I'm gonna have to dedicate a LOT of time to it, and I also have to live. I'm a little late. I mean I'm a competent drummer but I only just started guitar recently and I haven't started piano yet, I'm already a college graduate.
>>129840459What ought I do instead?
>>129840486Lateshit it’s already over ur so cooked!!!! Na dude just make stuff and work at it, it’s better to attempt composition with what you have than putting it off until perfect mastery.
>>129840494Mechanics, plumbing, electrical, something useful like that.
>>129840507I mean it aint bad to have a day job, I just think it’s good to have hobbies. People need to stop thinking of everything as monetary gain or a road to getting famous
>>129840506I'm starting now, but just being realistic it's gonna take time.
>>129840462>incidental music>profoundLolz
>>129840530It's alright OP. Just go for it. Don't care about success or money, just do it even if your work is complete garbage. Just don't go into all this with any expectations, not yet atleast. Do it as a hobby, then you can move into a more serious direction if you found any success.
>>129840399Stop making it then and go be the consumerist pleb wagie you were meant to be.
>>129840399I guess I just stop being a bitch and do the best I can to make stuff that's worth spending your money on.
>>129840399By not caring about the money
>>129840399>Being a classical composer isn't really even a career anymore.it absolutely is, it's just not something you into by watching a couple youtube videos.
>>129845527A "career" sustained purely by art grants, where nobody gains any audience.
>>129845546sounds like a whole lot of salt from someone who dropped out of music school
>>129846125Is it a hot take to say that contemporary classical music has a shadow of the cultural power of older classical?
>>129841247In 200 years video game music and movie scores will be the most respected music from our times. They won't have the same bias that makes you dismissive of it.
>>129843930People like you is why music is dead. No one likes music anymore because like every musician is a fart huffer who thinks they are a magical fairy with superpowers.
>>129840399You're fucked if you want to make music your career anyways. Even if you happen land a hit with something that truly represents your talents, your brain is still susceptible to the number gambling and you will end up being dictated by the mainstream in some way or another, either through success addiction or anxiety.
>>129840399if you were pursuing music to make money then you should have no problem with it. You're in it for the business, then do the business.If you're into making music for the sake of art, then you already have literally all the means of production at your fingertips, for a relatively cheap price, and you can make whatever genius you want to without being impoverished.Sorry that the great masses of people like eating chicken mcnuggets more than they like eating your fancy and probably very tastier and healthier hand-crafted chicken dish.Cope harder.
>>129840399If you wanna get big you gotta market yourself and most artsy types are either unwilling or unable to do so
>>129840399>The most interesting metal bands have like 100k Spotify listeners, Who's "interesting"? Some forgettable djent-core slop act that's just rehashing ideas from 20-30 years ago?>Meanwhile nonsense like Slipknot gets 16 million.This year marks 30 years since they formed and it's been more than a quarter century since their debut album. They're a legacy act now, you might as well be mad people still listen to AC/DC.>>129848029>People like you issar, redeem and so on.
>>129845546>A "career" sustained purely by art grantshow is this different than a "career" sustained purely by wealthy patrons
I'd rather only weirdo outcasts and recluses listen to my music. it would genuinely make me happy to find out that my music made those type of people happy and actually enjoyed my art. appealing to the turbo autismo, who has the entire library of collective media at his fingertips, yet chooses to listen to niche shit that I created, is the highest form of flattery
