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"Time will replace you"

Social MediaHazel Bloom
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Social Media
Social Media

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Behind The Song

I wrote this about the toxicity of social media and how it has affected me as an artist. Being a musician, all I want is my music to be heard, and with the growth of social media, it’s been a life changer for musicians. I see musicians blow up over night. Their followers, video views, streaming numbers all skyrocket from 0 to millions in the matter of a couple days. To me, that’s amazing to see and I'm stoked that independent musicians are finally getting their music heard. However, I can't help but be a little jealous when I seem to put in the same work and it seems to go unnoticed. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way and some days it can become really toxic to my mindset.

I start focusing on numbers and things that don't matter… I'll post a video that I thought would do well, then it gets no views… Then I'll see someone post a video that goes viral that I dont think is that good… but since it went viral, I try to recreate it when it's not something I would naturally create… and that video doesn't do well… I try to step out of my comfort zone to create something, but I end up making something that isn't genuine to who I actually am as a person. It turns into just being about views and not the music…

I'll get so preoccupied with studying and creating videos that I lock myself away and ignore the ones I love. I get so consumed with trying to make videos to keep people's attention that I feel like a puppet. So that’s why I wrote this song. To stop myself from comparison, to stop worrying about the numbers, to stop trying to be someone I'm not, to stop drowning myself in things I can't change and just live my life. People will find my music when the time is right, social media is an asset, and I need to stop letting it be so toxic.

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