After I finish the first part of my new song for the next album, I need some distraction before I continue working on the second part. That's why after a long time there's another piece of "wisdom" from me
It is very popular today that everyone wants to be different in order to stand out from the crowd. With slogans such as: “Think different” companies get millions of people to buy the same product so that they can then feel “different”. However, there hasn't been a single moment in my life where I wanted to be different.
For me, there is a similarity between people who desperately want to be different and people who desperately want to be like the mainstream. Both are based on what the mainstream likes and wants - some by doing the opposite, others by bowing to general taste.
If a person listens to normal pop music, and it makes their heart beat faster and bring them emotions, then that person should make that music and not be put off by their surroundings (which might listen to underground music) and make exactly that music that suits the person and causes so much emotion. Conversely, a person who likes very strange, uncommercial music should make exactly that music, no matter how much those around him turn their noses up at it. Because it's important that you do what you want and not do what society wants or doesn't want.
There are people who think my music is good, others bad, some love it, some hate it, but I have never heard that it is completely ordinary music - even though I never tried to sound different. Everything I've done so far, I've done it because I think it's good and necessary, not because I want to please everyone, but also not because I want to give anyone the musical middle finger. That's why it didn't matter to us at Summoning that we used the keyboard (which was frowned upon at the time and was considered commercial). That's why it never mattered to me when people said I should sing in Ice Ages with clean vocals or make songs shorter and more chorus-focused. I just don't care what other people think of the music while I'm making it. Later I am of course interested in opinions about my albums, but as a possible inspiration, not as any kind of compulsion to do it.
