We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Aaron Raitiere. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Aaron below.
Aaron, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.
Lots of practice. I’m not sure there’s anyway I could’ve learned it any faster. I think the best way to learn is to mess up. I’ve written a lot of bad songs and I still do. I think the most essential skill is to get used to failure and be comfortable with it Because it’s the only thing really in your way.
Aaron, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I got into songwriting because I didn’t want to work, but now songwriting is work. I am primarily a lyricist for other artists. When they are stuck, I am a sort of fixer. My skill is finding peoples true stories and making them make sense lyrically. I’m proud of the fact that what I do is pretty much a form of learned magic. There are rules but there are no rules.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
There is no sensible financial reason to be a professional songwriter or musician. Songwriting is like playing the lottery or going fishing – it’s all luck.
If someone says they are an artist and they have no success to prove it, then they are certainly crazy and resilient.
To attempt a life as a creative in a world where nothing is cheap, you have to be happy with beans and rice and eggs and the basics.
To me this is resilient – to be ok without luxury – so that when luxury appears it is, in fact, luxurious.
Alright – so here’s a fun one. What do you think about NFTs?
I am 42 years old. Im not sure all of this stuff with be sorted out before Im dead. Streaming royalties, NFTS, cryptocurrency – its all the Wild West these days – I try to not worry about any of it too much and just focus on what’s in front of me –
Which doesnt always work out too well.
I think NFTs are cool and the thought is cool but I my gut instinct is to not care at all.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Www.ADHD.cool
- Instagram: @aaronraitiere, @araitiere
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