SERIOUSLY?

Opened my email and saw a message from Spotify. I had to double-check the calendar. It’s MAY 1st, not APRIL 1st, right? The universe isn’t pulling a prank on me, is it?

500 followers? Seriously?

I don’t even know how long I’ve had a Spotify account. But to hit 500 followers (and am sure some are bots) is a milestone for someone like me. How so? Well, I’m glad you asked! What I do musically is not for everyone, it’s considered a niche thing. Yeah yeah yeah blah blah blah. But even so, provided 90% of the followers are human, this is pretty big. I have to see when I started my account and do the math.

I’ve always been a late bloomer, so to speak. Nothing I ever did was a hit out of the park or met with immediate success. I’m definitely slept on around these parts. Maybe that’s my ego talking but others have said the same thing to me over the years. So seeing “you’ve hit 500 followers” is pretty damn cool.

All told, the past couple of years have been very slow for me musically. I lost the heart and the ambition for a while, and it’s slowly coming back…creeping along, if you will. I had to accept that there’s virtually no interest in my music. Was there ever? Unless I shoved it in peoples’ faces, they weren’t going to ask nor care about anything I did.

Cold hard facts, my friends.

That doesn’t mean I’ve been sleeping 😉