We recently connected with Sweet Myths and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Sweet , thanks for joining us today. Do you feel you or your work has ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized? If so, tell us the story and how/why it happened and if there are any interesting learnings or insights you took from the experience?

We are a rock band, a jazz band, a funk band, a disco prog-pop band we will make and write anything that we wanna write we don’t wanna be trapped in one label and while people in the music industry would say that’s not marketable. I feel like this idea of branding as a “genre” band or artist is becoming less important these days. People wanna see the artists they follow change evolve and develop. I think that’s a beautiful thing, we don’t really fit anywhere and maybe that’s a good thing.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Sweet Myths is a “prog pop” band (as a joke) but we tend to write music that can be understood more complexly if you wanted to look more into the artwork but can be listened to passively too if that’s how you’d like to engage with it. We’re always fans of sneaking in hidden messages or cameos in art and so we kinda like doing that with our music whether it be through the lyrics and harmonies or rhythm. I think that ability to make people dance and grove to odd times signatures is always something that makes us smile.

Can you share your view on NFTs? (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

Another pump and dump scheme. I know they used to be much more popular a year ago but the problem with NFT’s is just there’s a no real authentication or real verification. The people who evangelize this are usually people trying to pump their own NFT’s so that they can sell high and take the most earnings. They all sound like a good idea but all it really is a façade that takes advantage of people’s optimism for the future and the tech we built to solve complex problems.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

We need to start caring about art, not just as a form of escapism or brief moments of entertainment but something as fundamental as education, city planning, and health. A society needs art as much as it needs community and rights. This means we need to start thinking about how to create space for artists to make things and present their works that are not just art galleries, theaters, and music venues. How can we fund them besides the typical go fund me or an IndieGoGo campaign. How do we create cities so that art can thrive? If we remember older civilizations like the Romans, Ancient Egypt, The Aztecs our minds go to their buildings, the paintings, the aesthetics and thus their art. we remember people and things because of the art work not the scientific or engineering breakthroughs.

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Image Credits
All Photo’s taken by Tim Stevenson