This came up on my personal account’s timeline and it struck me as odd in all facets because the title was “An Eight-Foot-Tall Woman Is Destroying The Entire Music Industry”. It did its job and got me to click on it to see if there was some mutant woman out there taking down all the corporate giants in the music industry. Not quite the case. The story being told and the way she tells it is pretty amazing, though.
This is a rags to riches style story with a lot of it based on being unsure but not being too proud to find out, and being appreciative of people who are appreciative of you and who want to show you that. Worth the watch just to get a new perspective on a lifestyle you probably don’t know a whole lot about. Despite the story and the new perspective it spins, I have been lucky enough (or unlucky enough depending on your take on living in poverty) to experience a lot of what she did when it came to traveling and pertaining to music. I can’t help but believe this is just an extraordinary, isolated situation. Not everyone can do this. Not everyone externally will take to this and in most cases, probably most won’t. Her question at the end is a legit question but the answer is really in the music. Money is expendable to everyone when they believe they’re giving it to a cause that’s worthy of having it.
I identify with this though. I’ve slept on couches all over the US. I’ve lived on $5 a day, which probably mean’t I only spent $5 in each state I passed through. I stood in malls and around coffee shops with a CD player and headphones, in cities I had never been to before and asked people to listen to our music and buy a CD. i’ve asked random people we didn’t know if we could stay at their home instead of having to sleep in our van. I did all that. I lived the art of asking and it’s certainly an art and it does make you feel vulnerable. In the end, it didn’t work out like her situation did. Granted some of the members I was on this journey with, their journey hasn’t ended yet and it might yet reach an outcome resembling something like hers. We made amazing friends, many we still talk to almost 10 years later. Some have become almost like family now, but that’s not the point here.
As a fan, who wanted nothing more than to be a successful artist in music, I know the answer to her question.
Give me something I believe in.
Enjoy!
