People want your songs played at their funeral.
As you might’ve seen. Kanye West has been going off the rails over the last few weeks.
From parading his wife Bianca Censori practically naked at the Grammys.
To getting banned off of Twitter for promoting a white t-shirt with a nazi symbol on it, while shamelessly sharing hardcore porn too, while going on a massive antisemitic rant…
Nick Cave. Another musician I kinda like, says he wants Kanye West song played at his funeral despite all of that.
Which to me is pretty wild.
I mean if someone tells or shows you who they really are. Well you better believe it.
But there’s a lesson here. When you’ve hit that point in your life where money means nothing because you’ve got it all. What do you do? Now I don’t advocate going off the rails like Kanye has, but he’s doing what he needs to do to get that fix of dopamine.
Validation is an actual bitch when you’re not getting it, so you use social media to push the boundaries even further.
After all. Attention is the game.
Now I definitely wouldn’t sell my soul to the devil to get that kind of reach and clout, cause that level right there is enough to break you mentally and it shows with how unhinged Kanye is.
I’m just wondering what’s next cause you just can’t look away.
We’re weird, right? Like you pass a car accident and you can’t help but rubberneck your way to see if you can catch a glimpse of the horror.
Personally I prefer the long game of gaining a higher quality level of attention and you guessed it…
You build your damn email list and you email them every day. It can be fun facts and glimpses of your life, or re-telling tales like the one above or even an unhinged rant about how the squirrels in your back garden are apart of an elite government military funded operation to stop you from taking over the world…
But that’s besides the point. For me it’s about entertainment and I find all of these things incredibly interesting.
Stephen Walker