Advice for someone who wants to make music for a living.
so im 15, going on 16, and ive been making music for myself for 2 years almost. i can write sing, play piano and guitar, and music is what i love the most basically.
so 2 days ago i was having this conversation with my dad, where i told him that i want to be a musician and make music my job. what he said was, “start now, upload your music to social media (ive had other social media accs where i’d upload unrelated stuff to music that have grown to 15k+ followers every single acc even one that has grown up to 50k)” which sounded pretty fair, i mean, that’s what has been on my mind since ive started playing and singing, but there’s one issue: fear.
The fear of your videos never blowing up and giving up on it, the fear of being clowned by ur surroundings, the fear of not getting people to listen to your music and only listen to you because of ur covers and blah blah blah.
Another big problem is production. Lets say i start uploading my songs and on tiktok, and one of them blows up, is going to a studio snd paying a producer big amounts for him to finish the song a good idea or should i keep on posting till i get signed to a label?
What is the best way to get people to listen to YOUR music, cz i think of examples of people who have blown up on because of tiktok wouldnt upload covers and got famous overnight, like d4vd or sombr, how did they get famous and signed to a label?
well this was mostly a brainstorming session, of fears and doubts about the industry, if u have any major advice to give me i wouldnt mind.