A spark of hope
I heard back from this new job and I finally got hired! It'll be long ass shifts and some pretty physically challenging work, but it'll pay decent so I can finally invest in my own life and vision. I've been so excited this week since hearing back and I'm gonna be starting on Monday. I'm kinda nervous to see how this new job is gonna affect my creative output and overall morale.
In this burst of excitement at the face of new hope, I had a very productive week in music. I completed the last few beats and wrote and recorded two songs for STUPID BULLSHIT. If I was working like this from the beginning of the year, I would be on my 3rd project now. Honestly, I'm really glad to finally be reaching the end of this album. These last songs I'm making feel like the conclusion to a very long and challenging time in my life. This album represents the difficulties and struggles I've dealt with in the past year or so. Everything from feeling depressed, disappointed, and discouraged. STUPID BULLSHIT was heavily inspired by my disappointments in the different areas of my life. Even though I wasn't very enthusiastic about making this first album during the majority of thes process, I feel a sense of satisfaction and gratitude that I stuck through with it and I'm now close to the end.
With that said, I'm already starting to come up with ideas for the next album. Last weekend, I made a couple of beats and I'm already confident in the next evolution of my music. It's very Up 2 Më/2 Alivë era mixed with Lyfestyle Yeat influenced and I can't wait to start writing and recording for it. The theme I'm thinking to go with is "optimism" because I feel very optimistic right now. I can imagine the aesthetic and visual style being very Y2K and pre-2008 techno-optimism styled. Some ideas I'm conceptualizing right now is that this is called Post-Doomer Neo-Optimism Core. I imagine it to be very vibrant and bright sounding, with inspiring visuals. I'm already so excited to make a mood board and get a solid conecpt for this. Right now, the name I'm thinking is SULI DREAM - representing the ideal, dream utopia that I envision.
I am also playing with the idea of making a video game to go along with this project. This isn't the first time I intended to create a game that would go along with an album (see SULI UNIVERSE). But I hadn't really progressed too far in that particular project because I had too wide of a scope. The SULI UNIVERSE project is still on the way, I just don't know when I will officially return to developing it. However, this time, I will limit my scope to something more manageable and actually try to, you know, DEVELOP it.
Overall, this is a pretty happy time for me. After months of dealing with utter bullshit and feeling horrible, things are looking up. Let's see what this next chapter holds!
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