1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Welcome to Why Make Music…, a podcast where we dive into the world of creativity and inspiration, 2 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:41,000 hosted by ThinkTimm, we're board casting from planet Earth now, without further ado, let's invite our journey to think, to talk, and to explore, Why Make Music... 3 00:00:41,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Welcome, welcome, welcome to Episode 19 of Why Make Music, dot, dot, dot. 4 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:26,000 I'm your host, ThinkTimm, that's T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M. 5 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:40,000 I wanna first say, once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone that's listening. 6 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:56,000 I hope your how days were very fulfilling, and you had some quality family time, 7 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:13,000 with your folks, your people, your crew, the people you spend your time with. 8 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Well, it's 2025 y'all, and what are we going to do? Today's episode is going to be a little house cleaning. 9 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:57,000 First, I would like to say thank you to all of the listeners, and everyone who has been watching on YouTube. 10 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:15,000 We got live video footage of the recording of the podcast, Why Make Music, dot, dot, dot. 11 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:35,000 So, I'd like to encourage everyone to subscribe, follow, listen, tell a friend about it, and enjoy. 12 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:48,000 ThinkTimm, and the good people at Why Make Music…, the podcast. 13 00:03:48,000 --> 00:04:12,000 We are in our creative bag, as always, and the start of 2025 has been nothing but phenomenal, nothing but great, 14 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:27,000 when it comes to the issue of sharing our product and being creative. 15 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:42,000 I say that because shockily, social media has been very, very kind. 16 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:59,000 I, by chance, about a week ago, I posted a eight second commercial video for ThinkTimm.com 17 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:17,000 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, 18 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:41,000 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. 19 00:05:41,000 --> 00:06:05,000 But, so, I put online a eight second video, and surprisingly, we got crazy, crazy numbers. 20 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:33,000 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. 21 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Over here, it says that we did 250,000 plays. 22 00:06:50,000 --> 00:07:04,000 I don't know what that means. What does that mean in social media world? 23 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:20,000 If you know, is that good? Is it bad? It was literally a eight second video. 24 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:41,000 It is here somewhere. It is this guy right here. 25 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:52,000 That's it. 26 00:07:52,000 --> 00:08:15,000 So, somehow, you folks on social media, Instagram, you accidentally watched that video a quarter of a million times. 27 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Great. Thank you. I thank you very much, and my thanks is completely surprising and never ending. 28 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:57,000 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, 29 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:17,000 because I'm assuming this is all commercial ability, marketing, and all that cool stuff an independent producer wants. 30 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:42,000 So, now that we talked about the cool social media, and I'm highly suggesting that you always go and engage friendly, 31 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:56,000 politely, and encourage all forms of creativity in the world. 32 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Support all artists, musicians, creatives, and linear support. I was watching a video the other day, and they had the head of Spotify on, 33 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:37,000 and he was testifying in front of Congress, and basically he was asked, well, out of all of your users, 34 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:50,000 how much revenue are they getting that they earn that they're generating? 35 00:10:50,000 --> 00:11:16,000 And his answer was kind of cryptic. He said, our top tier entertainers, musicians, people are making a great living. 36 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:31,000 So, the Congress person asking the question said, well, what about the average user of Spotify? 37 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:48,000 He said, basically, we were earning perhaps an average of $12 a month. 38 00:11:48,000 --> 00:12:09,000 So, all I'm saying is that this is not done for the cash. Independently, we are not making money. 39 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:23,000 We are doing it strictly for the love of creativity. 40 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Do you get it? Do you finally understand? 19 long episodes and I am sharing why make music. 41 00:12:47,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Question mark, explanation mark, comma, I don't know, that little emoji with the guy with his hands up like, I don't know. 42 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:28,000 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. 43 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:56,000 So, I just wanted to share that tidbit of information to let you know that, yeah, there is no mighty payout for this. 44 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:23,000 Support all independent people from, of course, you do know that music is part of the disposable income that we're supposed to have. 45 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:48,000 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 46 00:14:48,000 --> 00:15:08,000 or take it off the radio, streaming on your personal device, your phone, iPhone, Samsung, Android phone. 47 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:25,000 These platforms that are basically curating how you hear music. 48 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Unless you listen to a particular artist, most streaming platforms categorize everything into playlists of similar sounding music. 49 00:15:50,000 --> 00:16:13,000 So, unless you create your own playlists or, from my point of view, I personally listen to more of my own projects 50 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:23,000 than other people's music when I'm casually listening. 51 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:45,000 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. 52 00:16:45,000 --> 00:17:10,000 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. 53 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:23,000 So, we decided to put out songs on beatleasing sites. 54 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,000 Haven't made any money doing that. 55 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:38,000 We decided to put music on streaming platforms. 56 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:56,000 That began in August, and since then I put out five projects, each project with 26 tracks. 57 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:14,000 So, if you intelligent, smart people multiply five times 26, you get 130. 58 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:38,000 So, by the close of 2024, I officially had 130 tracks streaming on social media and streaming platforms under the name ThinkTimm. 59 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:47,000 T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M 60 00:18:47,000 --> 00:19:04,000 This is the part where I tell you to like and subscribe to the podcast, the YouTube channel. 61 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Go and make me one of your favorite artists on your favorite streaming platform. 62 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:42,000 And I will promise to never disappoint and never stop entertaining your audio sensory intake. 63 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,000 You have my word. 64 00:19:46,000 --> 00:20:08,000 So, what I did when I was basically closing out the year, I said this in the episode prior, episode 18. 65 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:32,000 I looked up the fact of how many songs have been released in a six month period. 66 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Come to find out, there were possibly two candidates that were noticeably prevalent on the internet. 67 00:20:52,000 --> 00:21:12,000 One was the writer of Dance Monkey, Tones and I. They said that within a six month period, she released 60 songs. 68 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:24,000 The other one was a artist that I came across. The name escapes me. 69 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:46,000 That artist also had about 60 or so tracks available within a six month period that consists of demos and what not. 70 00:21:46,000 --> 00:22:10,000 So, in my attempt to market myself and reach out and expand my limited independent reach, 71 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:24,000 I emailed, reached out to the Guinness Book of World Records because they had the Tones and I, 72 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:50,000 supposedly in their list as the most songs written, produced, arranged, composed and performed by an artist at 60 in a six month period. 73 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Or I do believe that might have been for the whole entire year. 74 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:25,000 So, with that once again being said, August to December, five projects all produced, written, composed, performed. 75 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:35,000 No samples, no inner plantation. 76 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:56,000 I do believe that's the word where you take the essence of another song and incorporate it into your project. 77 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:19,000 So, with that, that would say I did five projects and 26 songs per project. 78 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:35,000 That's 130 between August, September, October, November, December. That's five months. 79 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:49,000 I think I'm trying. I think that if ever I'm really contacted back from Guinness, 80 00:24:49,000 --> 00:25:11,000 I should have the world record for songs released written by one person, freely, solely on all streaming platforms 81 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:21,000 that you can listen to at any given time. And they're all different. 82 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:37,000 They contain no samples. So, if ever something were to productively come my way, 83 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:42,000 I think I'm doing all right. 84 00:25:42,000 --> 00:26:07,000 So, all I'm saying is that as an inspirational tool, as motivation for independent creators and motivation 85 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:33,000 for home recording artists, home producers, people who don't have the backing or necessarily the gear of the world. 86 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:53,000 But you still want to be creative. You can still do everything you want to do and realize who are you doing it for? 87 00:26:53,000 --> 00:27:11,000 That's the question. Why make music? Are you making the music for an audience? 88 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:25,000 Or are you making the music for yourself? Think about it. 89 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Of course, as a person who can create intellectual property, you want to have the response 90 00:27:49,000 --> 00:28:08,000 or have the interaction of an audience. But as the creator, do you really understand that the listening audience, 91 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:25,000 the people who listen, they come at the end of the completion of the process. 92 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:49,000 So, when you make music, when you create art, when you write a story, a poem, a movie, a essay, 93 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:58,000 you are doing it for yourself. 94 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:19,000 That is, I think, the most freeing moment as a creator because you make what you make for yourself. 95 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:42,000 And you enjoy it. And you enjoy sharing it. So, on to connecting and building this community of thought. 96 00:29:42,000 --> 00:30:00,000 I know it takes time. I am new to this. I am new to sharing music with the masses. 97 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:23,000 I am new with trying to communicate with everyone. I am open to comments, messages, anything. 98 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:38,000 We have the ThinkTimm Instagram account. We have WDNation, which is more like, 99 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:57,000 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. 100 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:20,000 And I am a fan of a lot of franchises, so I create artwork for fan art of Star Wars, Marvel, DC, some entertainers. 101 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:41,000 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. 102 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:58,000 The time that I'm not spending with my family, I spend doing music. When I'm not doing music, I'm doing art. 103 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:19,000 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 104 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:48,000 of how to try to keep myself going. If you are an independent artist and you can relate, talk to me, let me know. 105 00:32:48,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Share your stories with me. Maybe we can hook up and do an interview of why make music featuring you. 106 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:30,000 It's 2025 and I'm trying my best to expand my brand of reach out connectivity via music, via art, via 107 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:52,000 building a community that we can share ideas and processes. I like that word, processes. 108 00:33:52,000 --> 00:34:14,000 What drives you as a person that likes to make music or listen to music? 109 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:31,000 I mentioned that you, we have to, we have to do it for ourselves. 110 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:56,000 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. 111 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:20,000 I'm pretty much physically okay. But think about it. Making music, when you make music for yourself, it is the best thing ever. 112 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:38,000 How can I drive this home? We also have a digital personality that we're working on called DJ Warm Cookies. 113 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:55,000 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. 114 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:13,000 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. 115 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:32,000 So our digital DJ is DJ Warm Cookies. So think about it. Why do you make music? 116 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:48,000 Because you want to and it makes you feel good. Have you ever made cookies? 117 00:36:48,000 --> 00:37:07,000 What's your favorite kind of cookie? And have you ever baked cookies just for yourself? 118 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:30,000 Now, the comparison I'm making is how satisfying is that cookie you made for yourself? 119 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:44,000 It's the same creative drive that makes you want to make music. 120 00:37:44,000 --> 00:38:07,000 Why Make Music…? Why make chocolate chip cookies? Chip, chip, chip. 121 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:15,000 You know, at this point, I could do my. 122 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:37,000 It's good enough for me. It's good enough for me. 123 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:56,000 That's why I make music. Self satisfaction. Nothing more. Nothing less. 124 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:16,000 If you put the time, the energy, the effort into putting together something that is 125 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:31,000 self satisfying, self fulfilling, you will not be disappointed. 126 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:47,000 Once again, subscribe once again. Like, leave a comment. I think the listeners, 127 00:39:47,000 --> 00:40:02,000 I've told you, I looked at the analytics and there's listeners, there's hundreds of listeners. 128 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:17,000 I'm shocked. I'm humbled. I thank you for tuning in, but subscribe, hit that button, 129 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:35,000 like, leave a comment. So this way more and more people can experience T H I N K T I M M. 130 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:57,000 Why Make Music..? Because it is satisfying. Why be an independent creator? Because it is satisfying. 131 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:18,000 All I want to do is share. If I could financially benefit, so be it. That's what we do as humans. 132 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:32,000 But connect. I'm learning how to build connections. Thank you for listening. 133 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:53,000 This has been ThinkTimm . And Why Make Music… Episode 19. So satisfying. Yes. 134 00:41:53,000 --> 00:42:11,000 Why do you do what you do? See you next week. Peace be wild. 135 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:38,000 Bye.