Hello wonderful people of Afri-tune and inleo community and welcome to week 52 of this wonderful initiative. Before I kick off I must say. The topic for this week is one that really excites me as sometimes the pursuit to become something more, one my say that the thin line between passion and fame becomes blurry and we lose vision and become blindsided.
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However, the question still remains what drives upcoming artist. Passion or Fame.
Basically, I think it would be unfair to generalize or assume that someone will wake up every day and agree to be consistent day in day out, in good and bad time, even in the worst circumstance till keep on pushing. It you ask me, that sound like passion to me. To dedicate your entire life, time and effort into composing lyrics that forms into melodies. Building something that is greater than you, something that would outlive you.
To me, I don’t think someone will dedicate so much time into artistry without having a passionate drive behind it. As a musically inclined person, I know what it take to score song talk about composing one. It takes a tank full with passion to make that into a full time job and not get tired. Not to mention the financial aspect. Music is a career you invest a lot not just time, but money. It is not just something you invest but build from scratch.
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A career like music take money: recording both audio and visual. A lot of people get paid; the cinematographer, the producer and probably a lot of things done in the shadows we know little about. Music needs time; it requires attention to listen and re-listen and consistency creativity. Don’t you think all these has to be driven by passion, to tell your own story through the art of music, it has to come from a passionate soul at least, that is how we would love to see it. But truly…
Although all the above factors are sponsored by passion, I don’t think passion is or should be the drive. Honestly, it isn’t something I’d advise.
Passion they say is a temporary drive to excellent and slow and steady, doesn’t win the race anymore. In as must as I would like to say upcoming artist are driven by passion, the more obvious and logical answer would be Fame., why else the struggle to be heard by a larger audience, the struggle for spot light and to get to the top. To be fair the struggle for fame is what makes them upcoming.
All this is obviously aimed at getting fame. I mean I would know as singing for me is also passion but not a career and since it is passion, I find convenient in a lot of things like; being heard in church only. However, writing for me is also passion and it is a career and because I see the bigger picture, I spend sleepless night trying to improve myself and meet up with deadline hoping that one day my voice will be heard.
Also, I believe who wins the race is one who is Focus and DETERMINED not just one who is passionate. Someone who sees the bigger picture, someone understands that life is an investment and you invest to get return and not because you are passionate about spending money and time. You must understand life is simply transactional were you scarifying time to buy time and investing money to get more money.
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Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying upcoming artist are not passionate, as a matter of fact you should be passionate about whatever you want to spend your entire life doing . However, when you add the pressures of money making to anything you like, you begin to like it less. Pressure is like a wind that fans down the flames of passion. So to all upcoming artists, stay passionate but let the bigger picture be your drive.
Thank you so much for read i till next time I still remain your very enthusiastic writer 