 All right we got Caesars Wish asking, I have songs I wish I could post cause I think that they have their own unique qualities but I made them a minute before I had the actual sound quality mixing mic quality etc of my music got better. I like them but I wouldn't be comfortable posting them on Apple Music Spotify etc. I wish I could do a soft drop or something and in the old days that would simply be a soundcloud drop but I don't feel like soundcloud is enough anymore. Do you have any ideas? Well, I mean man you said I don't want to really do it on soundcloud then you also say you don't want to do it on Apple Spotify etc I mean what do you I mean put it on the CD and hand it out I don't know man but no honestly to be real there's a couple of options number one you could not overthink this whole Apple Spotify thing you know I understand there's a whole an official perception of that you could drop it and honestly people overthink that people probably aren't paying that much attention if they check it out they like it they like it if they don't they don't that's one route and also you can put it on your YouTube audio page right not your YouTube audio page but as an audio on your YouTube page that is something else that you can do and then just say and think nothing of that maybe if you see enough feedback you do something more with it that's a couple of options that you can do where you don't have to overthink and really do much promotion of it at all of course you can post on your web page like social media all that stuff organically and see what happens but that's about it all right now option number two this is where we get a lot more creative with it in thoughtful right because what you have to realize is no matter what you do it's all about context and this is when branding comes into play so let's say you have a considerable fan base that really rocks with you and they're used to a specific sound all right let's say there's that so there's even more pressure and you know for a fact that 1,000 people are going to listen at least whenever you just drop this song no promotion or not number one I'm still pro put it on Apple Spotify all that stuff like put it on there don't don't you know stress that part out but when you do it it's about context so how do you let people know that this is some old stuff and I'm releasing it now right because that's gonna take pressure off you and is gonna create some some managing of expectations right so you can name it my first songs right or old stuff there's there's things that are contextual to your brain that'll make it make more sense however you name it but you can create a story around it where you let people know yo there's some music when I was just discovering myself or this is I wanted to give you all a sense of who I used to be right before I found my sound to show a little encouragement right you can be it bring a whole narrative of hard work and and improvement all that stuff can work right you can name it um I don't know let me see you can name it like mom you know old days or something like that there's so many creative names you can come up with I definitely suggest if you can name it a small piece of project right and then create that story around the project it'll it'll do wonders and it makes things so much simpler you could just push the story but a lot of people will miss the story it makes it even stronger when you put it in a small package of a project whether that's three or five songs that some kind of EP and if you put some kind of name that alludes to it right um you know what's like old me I don't know it's obvious but you can come up with something far more creative and whatever makes sense for your brand but just think about the the point of what I'm saying the narrative right think about the the concept that you can create around it the narrative that you can create around it that makes it clear that this isn't who I am anymore sonically right but you also have this context to let people know why you dropped it now right and maybe you have to lie a little bit maybe you just really just want to drop it because you feel like you want to drop it in and you didn't want to have any songs wasted in the chamber all right maybe that's it but you can create a whole story outside of that and just make it you know connect connect us you're an artist you're a storyteller do that all right then there's also the legit straight-up story of hey I had some old songs I wanted to release them show the world it is what it is you can take whatever approach you want to but understand that look one review the options one drop it no one ever knows about it cuz you never really promoted it or it is a very likely chance to you can post it as an audio on YouTube so people can hear it and if you see enough feedback you know maybe maybe you do something a little bit more with it and you can also promote that YouTube clip on one of social media right that's the second option then third is creating a narrative around it right some kind of context around it that lets people know why it's dropping now or just takes the pressure off so you didn't have to say this is why I'm dropping now but you can just let them know clearly this is not who you are by whatever you name it and a small piece of story that that you attach right that simple I hope that's clear if we ever need to go in any more details we'll do that in another episode all right