How do musicians promote their work ethically now?
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How do musicians promote their work ethically now?
I've got a new album coming out next year. It's the best work I've ever done. My first 100% Yiddish record. I don't want it to drop like a stone and disappear.
I stopped posting on Facebook and Insta years ago, although I haven't shut my accounts. I erased my twitter. I'm contemplating taking everything off Spotify.
I'm still on YouTube. Not sure how to defend that morally, but there I am.
Tiktok looks like it's fallen to the far right and it seems like sooner or later I'll just wind up shadow banned there with the stuff I make.
Legacy media barely exists now.
Not sure what to do. I can't bring myself to go back to Elon. That's disgusting. Should I start posting on Zuck's evil sites again? I hate the idea of making content for that guy.
The fediverse music stuff is growing, but it's still in its infancy, with a tiny following.
Should I just put my efforts into promoting on youtube?
It's a given--there's no money in any of this for us now. I would just be trying to raise the profile of the music to get (Covid-safer) live bookings, and also because the people who played on the record did pure brilliance, and I don't want their work to disappear.
I don't know.
Any ideas?
#Klezmer #music #musician #instagram #tiktok #youtube #CovidIsNotOver #jewish #yiddish
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How do musicians promote their work ethically now?
I've got a new album coming out next year. It's the best work I've ever done. My first 100% Yiddish record. I don't want it to drop like a stone and disappear.
I stopped posting on Facebook and Insta years ago, although I haven't shut my accounts. I erased my twitter. I'm contemplating taking everything off Spotify.
I'm still on YouTube. Not sure how to defend that morally, but there I am.
Tiktok looks like it's fallen to the far right and it seems like sooner or later I'll just wind up shadow banned there with the stuff I make.
Legacy media barely exists now.
Not sure what to do. I can't bring myself to go back to Elon. That's disgusting. Should I start posting on Zuck's evil sites again? I hate the idea of making content for that guy.
The fediverse music stuff is growing, but it's still in its infancy, with a tiny following.
Should I just put my efforts into promoting on youtube?
It's a given--there's no money in any of this for us now. I would just be trying to raise the profile of the music to get (Covid-safer) live bookings, and also because the people who played on the record did pure brilliance, and I don't want their work to disappear.
I don't know.
Any ideas?
#Klezmer #music #musician #instagram #tiktok #youtube #CovidIsNotOver #jewish #yiddish
@Geoffberner With the disclaimer that I don't know you or your sitch, I think musicians are back where I was in my 20's, which is like a generation ago - we promoted ourselves by walking into bars with our demo tape, by pestering everyone we knew, knocking on the doors of schools & institutions, playing for pennies... some of the people I played with made it pro, most of us didn't.
The brief window where musicians could use social media/web for this has closed & probably isn't coming back.
