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Maybe I give up

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670
The number of days since I’ve shared new music with you.
1 year 10 months and 8 days of battling my perfectionism and my will to create with care.
Making sure whatever came next not only met but raised the bar I set for myself with Born in the Sunset.   

When I dropped Born in the Sunset I got a lot more coverage than expected. It was great to feel recognized. Every interviewer had one question as we closed:”What’s next?”

I didn’t have an answer then. Didn’t they realize all that I had been through? how deeply I dug within myself, no matter how excruciating, to create this project? A global pandemic. Losing all of my gear and having to buy anew. Forced to move back home and make music out of a closet with no windows. 35 songs down to 7. A short-film reduced to a script and a website.

I was resentful and hard on myself.

The last 2 years have been a deconstruction and rebuilding from scratch of my creative process and my relationship with my art. I started treating myself like a professional, practicing daily, honing my discipline, and trying not judge my creations so much. I learned to treat myself with more care and to reorient my creative fuel from pain and catharsis to joy and contentment.

Taking one step back, I’m just a guy that likes to make songs and share them with others. If that’s true, then it’s time I share.

Maybe I Give Up is a reminder not to. But it’s also a reminder that I don’t have to be anything at all. That I am just a man and I do just make songs and that’s okay.

This song is the manifestation of overcoming perfectionism. I told myself before I sat down to make this song that I would release it no matter what. Most songs at this point in my creative process are not even good. My hit rate is somewhere 2/10? I had zero preconception of what would come of it. So I had to trust myself to create something worth releasing. That was hard but good for me. I love what it stands for despite feeling good, not great, about the actual music. 

A good song done and released to the world is better than a great song that’s incomplete and taking up space on my computer.

Through practice, I'm growing and learning, sometimes re-learning every day. Lately, I've been remembering that two things seemingly opposed can be true:
- it's good to make with tenderness and care in all I do
- it's good to try not to be too precious with my creations.

Thank you for listening.

Maybe I give up

Give and take

No redo. No edit. First beat I made in Ableton.

Meant to fall in the cracks of the archive. The fault of the driveway.

To, Liza. I love you always.

- J





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Hold On

just made an album about the cyclical nature of life, love, and the pursuit of happiness. I used the sun/sunset as a metaphor to simplify the idea. I think it came out pretty badass and hope you enjoy it <3

For the complete experience and screenplay check out https://jacobs.blue

Born in the Sunset: Thoughts to Oasis

Down the Hill

Knew Better

(I can't) shake you

Fiya

On My Pixies Shit

Two Yellow Birds

Hard of Hearing

Hard Of Hearing

pursuing mastery in music

Born in the Sunset: Thoughts to Oasis is out now on all platforms!

For the complete experience and screenplay check out https://jacobs.blue

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