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Welcome, welcome, welcome to Episode 19 of Why Make Music, dot, dot, dot.
I'm your host, ThinkTimm, that's T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M.
I wanna first say, once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone that's listening.
I hope your how days were very fulfilling, and you had some quality family time,
with your folks, your people, your crew, the people you spend your time with.
Well, it's 2025 y'all, and what are we going to do? Today's episode is going to be a little house cleaning.
First, I would like to say thank you to all of the listeners, and everyone who has been watching on YouTube.
We got live video footage of the recording of the podcast, Why Make Music, dot, dot, dot.
So, I'd like to encourage everyone to subscribe, follow, listen, tell a friend about it, and enjoy.
ThinkTimm, and the good people at Why Make Music…, the podcast.
We are in our creative bag, as always, and the start of 2025 has been nothing but phenomenal, nothing but great,
when it comes to the issue of sharing our product and being creative.
I say that because shockily, social media has been very, very kind.
I, by chance, about a week ago, I posted a eight second commercial video for ThinkTimm.com
which is my hub of a website that you can go on and find links to the music streaming, the Beat Stars for Beat Selling,
the second page is the blog of Why Make Music… the third page is other miscellaneous sites like T-shirts, merchandise, and all that cool stuff.
But, so, I put online a eight second video, and surprisingly, we got crazy, crazy numbers.
We did shockily, as of, I guess, yesterday, I saw an alert that said, here we go, I'm going to show you I've been playing around.
Over here, it says that we did 250,000 plays.
I don't know what that means. What does that mean in social media world?
If you know, is that good? Is it bad? It was literally a eight second video.
It is here somewhere. It is this guy right here.
That's it.
So, somehow, you folks on social media, Instagram, you accidentally watched that video a quarter of a million times.
Great. Thank you. I thank you very much, and my thanks is completely surprising and never ending.
So, of course, because of that, I have made other videos that I will post, and we will see if it could do the same thing,
because I'm assuming this is all commercial ability, marketing, and all that cool stuff an independent producer wants.
So, now that we talked about the cool social media, and I'm highly suggesting that you always go and engage friendly,
politely, and encourage all forms of creativity in the world.
Support all artists, musicians, creatives, and linear support. I was watching a video the other day, and they had the head of Spotify on,
and he was testifying in front of Congress, and basically he was asked, well, out of all of your users,
how much revenue are they getting that they earn that they're generating?
And his answer was kind of cryptic. He said, our top tier entertainers, musicians, people are making a great living.
So, the Congress person asking the question said, well, what about the average user of Spotify?
He said, basically, we were earning perhaps an average of $12 a month.
So, all I'm saying is that this is not done for the cash. Independently, we are not making money.
We are doing it strictly for the love of creativity.
Do you get it? Do you finally understand? 19 long episodes and I am sharing why make music.
Question mark, explanation mark, comma, I don't know, that little emoji with the guy with his hands up like, I don't know.
Why? Because I love it. I love making music. I love being creative. There's nothing else I would rather do at any time, anywhere, any place.
So, I just wanted to share that tidbit of information to let you know that, yeah, there is no mighty payout for this.
Support all independent people from, of course, you do know that music is part of the disposable income that we're supposed to have.
It's a luxury. So, when you have tons and tons of people creating music all the time, you don't have to nowadays seek it out on foot
or take it off the radio, streaming on your personal device, your phone, iPhone, Samsung, Android phone.
These platforms that are basically curating how you hear music.
Unless you listen to a particular artist, most streaming platforms categorize everything into playlists of similar sounding music.
So, unless you create your own playlists or, from my point of view, I personally listen to more of my own projects
than other people's music when I'm casually listening.
I feel it's like a personal critique session, able to find the tracks that are going to basically move on to be presented to the world.
2024 was a good year. That's when I decided that we were going to, and when I say we, I'm talking about the entity of ThinkTimm, which is me.
So, we decided to put out songs on beatleasing sites.
Haven't made any money doing that.
We decided to put music on streaming platforms.
That began in August, and since then I put out five projects, each project with 26 tracks.
So, if you intelligent, smart people multiply five times 26, you get 130.
So, by the close of 2024, I officially had 130 tracks streaming on social media and streaming platforms under the name ThinkTimm.
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This is the part where I tell you to like and subscribe to the podcast, the YouTube channel.
Go and make me one of your favorite artists on your favorite streaming platform.
And I will promise to never disappoint and never stop entertaining your audio sensory intake.
You have my word.
So, what I did when I was basically closing out the year, I said this in the episode prior, episode 18.
I looked up the fact of how many songs have been released in a six month period.
Come to find out, there were possibly two candidates that were noticeably prevalent on the internet.
One was the writer of Dance Monkey, Tones and I. They said that within a six month period, she released 60 songs.
The other one was a artist that I came across. The name escapes me.
That artist also had about 60 or so tracks available within a six month period that consists of demos and what not.
So, in my attempt to market myself and reach out and expand my limited independent reach,
I emailed, reached out to the Guinness Book of World Records because they had the Tones and I,
supposedly in their list as the most songs written, produced, arranged, composed and performed by an artist at 60 in a six month period.
Or I do believe that might have been for the whole entire year.
So, with that once again being said, August to December, five projects all produced, written, composed, performed.
No samples, no inner plantation.
I do believe that's the word where you take the essence of another song and incorporate it into your project.
So, with that, that would say I did five projects and 26 songs per project.
That's 130 between August, September, October, November, December. That's five months.
I think I'm trying. I think that if ever I'm really contacted back from Guinness,
I should have the world record for songs released written by one person, freely, solely on all streaming platforms
that you can listen to at any given time. And they're all different.
They contain no samples. So, if ever something were to productively come my way,
I think I'm doing all right.
So, all I'm saying is that as an inspirational tool, as motivation for independent creators and motivation
for home recording artists, home producers, people who don't have the backing or necessarily the gear of the world.
But you still want to be creative. You can still do everything you want to do and realize who are you doing it for?
That's the question. Why make music? Are you making the music for an audience?
Or are you making the music for yourself? Think about it.
Of course, as a person who can create intellectual property, you want to have the response
or have the interaction of an audience. But as the creator, do you really understand that the listening audience,
the people who listen, they come at the end of the completion of the process.
So, when you make music, when you create art, when you write a story, a poem, a movie, a essay,
you are doing it for yourself.
That is, I think, the most freeing moment as a creator because you make what you make for yourself.
And you enjoy it. And you enjoy sharing it. So, on to connecting and building this community of thought.
I know it takes time. I am new to this. I am new to sharing music with the masses.
I am new with trying to communicate with everyone. I am open to comments, messages, anything.
We have the ThinkTimm Instagram account. We have WDNation, which is more like,
it's also tied in with the Thinktimm, but that was graphic art design, things I like. I like to utilize the digital art program, Procreate.
And I am a fan of a lot of franchises, so I create artwork for fan art of Star Wars, Marvel, DC, some entertainers.
Go on there, check it out, like the stuff. It's good. All I'm telling you is that technology has allowed my downtime to be nothing but creative time.
The time that I'm not spending with my family, I spend doing music. When I'm not doing music, I'm doing art.
When I'm not doing those, I am, I guess, in the car driving, running errands as old people do, listening to my music and thinking of other ideas
of how to try to keep myself going. If you are an independent artist and you can relate, talk to me, let me know.
Share your stories with me. Maybe we can hook up and do an interview of why make music featuring you.
It's 2025 and I'm trying my best to expand my brand of reach out connectivity via music, via art, via
building a community that we can share ideas and processes. I like that word, processes.
What drives you as a person that likes to make music or listen to music?
I mentioned that you, we have to, we have to do it for ourselves.
Yeah, we have to do it for ourselves. So think about it. I'm a grown man. I am not a little man. I am of nice, healthy stature.
I'm pretty much physically okay. But think about it. Making music, when you make music for yourself, it is the best thing ever.
How can I drive this home? We also have a digital personality that we're working on called DJ Warm Cookies.
And if you heard the story before, I jacked the name from Tamron Hall who used it as a pseudonym for checking in the hotels.
She said over 10 years ago on the Today Show, I liked it. I joked about it. I posted it and I gave it life.
So our digital DJ is DJ Warm Cookies. So think about it. Why do you make music?
Because you want to and it makes you feel good. Have you ever made cookies?
What's your favorite kind of cookie? And have you ever baked cookies just for yourself?
Now, the comparison I'm making is how satisfying is that cookie you made for yourself?
It's the same creative drive that makes you want to make music.
Why Make Music…? Why make chocolate chip cookies? Chip, chip, chip.
You know, at this point, I could do my.
It's good enough for me. It's good enough for me.
That's why I make music. Self satisfaction. Nothing more. Nothing less.
If you put the time, the energy, the effort into putting together something that is
self satisfying, self fulfilling, you will not be disappointed.
Once again, subscribe once again. Like, leave a comment. I think the listeners,
I've told you, I looked at the analytics and there's listeners, there's hundreds of listeners.
I'm shocked. I'm humbled. I thank you for tuning in, but subscribe, hit that button,
like, leave a comment. So this way more and more people can experience T H I N K T I M M.
Why Make Music..? Because it is satisfying. Why be an independent creator? Because it is satisfying.
All I want to do is share. If I could financially benefit, so be it. That's what we do as humans.
But connect. I'm learning how to build connections. Thank you for listening.
This has been ThinkTimm . And Why Make Music… Episode 19. So satisfying. Yes.
Why do you do what you do? See you next week. Peace be wild.
Bye.