The Single That Made Me Rethink Everything About Music
The two songs completely reshaped my career and ambitions.
I’ve always wanted to make music but around starting high school I started to ask myself what that really meant.
Luckily, I was in an arts school that opened the door to dozens of opportunities in the music industry. So what did those opportunities look like? I was confronted by an obsession for glory, unhealthy competition, monotonous work for nothing, and relationships built on selfishness.
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I ended up leaving this environment feeling very discouraged. I wasn’t really sure where to go after this as I thought the entire music industry was filled with this.
However, around the same time I discovered a band called Thank You Scientist and I eventually found a single called “Live at Backroom Studios” which included two songs titled “Anchor” and “Son of a Serpent.”
I thought I was a musician before these songs but these songs really showed me the endless possibilities there are not just as a musician but also in the music industry.
The distorted violin solo, the chamber orchestra, the rock opera feel, and the theatricality. They molded together everything I loved about music into one glorious moment.
I figured out that I wanted to do, whatever that was. Classical composition? Jazz? Musical theatre? I couldn’t really find a title to what it was but I wanted to blend worlds like they did.
Making music is going for those ambitious goals to make whatever you want to say as honest as possible. That’s what making music means to me now: doing what they did that day.
