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My 1st Mashup
Tada, after years of loving them, I’ve produced my first simple mashup.
It’s funny to go through the whole creative process from an idea in your head to executing and publishing it.
Idea
It happens to me many times that a song reminds me of another one or I hear snippets of other songs in a new song that I hear for the first time. Sometimes people share that, sometimes not. I can tell you, there’s a funny soundtrack in my head.
Execution
First I thought, okay, I don’t know how to produce a song. Let’s hire someone to do it for me. So I explained my idea- I was even willing to record me singing…, went on fiverr and contacted two potential „mashup DJs“. I was not happy with the communication and ended up NOT hiring either of them.
Option 2 was to do it myself. And you’d be surprised what you can do with free programs like „GarageBand“. Cutting and moving sound-files is no rocket-science. Reminder: we are talking about a very simple idea. Pretty quickly I was happy that I was able to execute my own idea- without AI btw. I produced an image in canva, matched it with the sound-file in iMovie and exported an mp4-file.
Publishing or „be kind“
Going public can be stressful. Making yourself accessible to everybody with an internet connection and an opinion.
With my little idea I do not intend any copyright infringement. It is for promotion purposes only.
All rights belong to the original artists & labels.
I decided to add this comment and so far it works:
Be nice. If you love it- tell me. If you don’t- keep it to yourself and move on. Thank you.
I started working on a second mashup, and this one is trickier- and the working files are parked in the program… I also wrote song lyrics and a friend produced 8 AI versions with my lyrics. But I have to work more on the structure of the text if I really want to turn my words into a song that I would be willing to publish.
ABBA already said „thank you for the music“. And after stumbling in tiny music artist shoes I respectfully agree.