Speaker 1: Hi, kids and kid let's or fifty crowd, I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you. It's Shames Augenius fifty plus. So I was,
Speaker 1: I I follow a bunch of younger people. Of course
Speaker 1: we all do, right, we're on social medium. And I
Speaker 1: appreciate while I appreciate their wide eyed you know, optimism
Speaker 1: and strength and minding to fight and things like that
Speaker 1: before what's cause it's it's a tough time out here
Speaker 1: right now. I totally get it. But it's funny what
Speaker 1: they choose to whether it's for clicks and hits or
Speaker 1: for real choose to attack. This is one person I follow.
Speaker 1: And I also notice this cause I'm older now. It's like,
Speaker 1: that's why I say, fifty plus people, you understand this
Speaker 1: like I do. When you feel something when you're younger,
Speaker 1: and not saying we don't when we're older, but when
Speaker 1: you're younger and you feel something, you feel strongly and
Speaker 1: you know it's the truth, and you were just like
Speaker 1: and that's that, and and you know and and this
Speaker 1: and and just there's a lot of things are black
Speaker 1: and white, and that's it. As you get older, you
Speaker 1: like the world's gray. It's not black and white. So
Speaker 1: I was listening to him, and I don't know him personally,
Speaker 1: if he was cute, as why I was following him whatever,
Speaker 1: and now much he did up in his mouth. His
Speaker 1: thing was decided to decide to attack Taylor Swift, you know,
Speaker 1: and which is a popular thing to do because she's popular.
Speaker 1: You can take anybody who's popular. That's how that's how
Speaker 1: the life works. And but Donna asks your album coming
Speaker 1: out too, and I was like, and so he was
Speaker 1: basically saying, there's what's going on in the world right now, like,
Speaker 1: how dare she put out an album? And it's just
Speaker 1: a bunch of fluff, isn't That wasn't even out yet,
Speaker 1: so you doesn't even know the songs are sounding or anything.
Speaker 1: But he's like, if the album just put some fluff,
Speaker 1: you know, how dare she do that? You know she
Speaker 1: used to put out album, a protest song and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. And I was like, this is this is
Speaker 1: not for me. It's all a personally this is not it.
Speaker 1: My worldview is number one because I'm an artist myself.
Speaker 1: I have two albums coming out right now, and they're
Speaker 1: both not serious albums. I have pronounced some serious albums
Speaker 1: and bought some serious songs in the last couple of times.
Speaker 1: Now I want to dance. Now, I just want to like,
Speaker 1: I want to just like just kind of get lost
Speaker 1: in some music. I would hay for somebody tell me
Speaker 1: what to do. First of all, if you're an artist,
Speaker 1: do whatever you want. That's your business. I would nearly
Speaker 1: anybody dictate what kind of music are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I tell you what you have to do. I don't
Speaker 1: want you doing protest music. If you're not into it,
Speaker 1: it's not your thing. And here's the deal. Her audience
Speaker 1: doesn't want it either. It's like it's her audiences want
Speaker 1: her songs, whether you like it or not, are resonating
Speaker 1: with millions of people. She knows her audience. She writes
Speaker 1: her own music. They have, They have their own meanings.
Speaker 1: It may not be protest songs. He has their own meanings,
Speaker 1: and they meet lots of people. I always say, there
Speaker 1: are folks who do the protest series music very well,
Speaker 1: and there are folks who are meant to do other
Speaker 1: kinds of music. I know I'm a privilege that for
Speaker 1: certain situations I can step out and not as it's
Speaker 1: not as I'm not a part of it. And many
Speaker 1: of this guy too. I mean it's the same. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he doesn't live in the parks and all this
Speaker 1: stuff that is whatever, but it's it's it's that whole
Speaker 1: thing of all or nothing, and they there's a whole
Speaker 1: term called doomscrolling. But people just I know it's hard,
Speaker 1: but he can't help themselves are online twenty four seven
Speaker 1: and look at the news twenty four seven and just
Speaker 1: like just I mean, cause it's it's scary world out there.
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, as I got older, I don't do that.
Speaker 1: And the world's the world's fucked up. I guess I
Speaker 1: get it. I am employing myself from certain things, of course,
Speaker 1: but not twenty very seven. I do need to escape
Speaker 1: any person. We're human. You need to escape. And music
Speaker 1: is that. Books are that. I don't want able to
Speaker 1: come out to just be a book about what's going
Speaker 1: on in the world. I wanna escape it for an
Speaker 1: hour or two. What's wrong with having music that comes
Speaker 1: out you escape for like thirty five minutes, seventy minutes,
Speaker 1: how long the album is. I think, I guess nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that, and sometimes it's warranted. You can't just
Speaker 1: be on warrior mode twenty four to seven. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: if you choose to be that way that you're a business,
Speaker 1: obviously you can do it. But for me, yes, I
Speaker 1: choose my moments where I'm on warrior mode. I choose
Speaker 1: my moments where I haven't take time off. And again,
Speaker 1: I know my privilege. I'm lucky to do that where
Speaker 1: I live and how I'm living. Some folks don't have
Speaker 1: that luxury. I totally get it. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to music, I think it's you know, everybody's artistic expression
Speaker 1: is their business, and it's room for all of it.
Speaker 1: There are folks out there who are putting out really
Speaker 1: great conscious music. So instead of attacking Taylor Swift, which
Speaker 1: is just either you try to get more views or
Speaker 1: reels or it's just it's just tone death, then show
Speaker 1: artists who are putting out good music share their work.
Speaker 1: That's what I do all the time. I'm always I mean,
Speaker 1: I do my shows. I interview indie artists who are
Speaker 1: doing conscious rap, or conscious R and B or conscious pop. Christian.
Speaker 1: I had Christian artists on here. They songs smile. He
Speaker 1: wants people to He want some people to like uplift themselves,
Speaker 1: and that's what I love that's what I's how, that's
Speaker 1: how I'm observed, instead of attacking people that just I mean, plus,
Speaker 1: no one wants to hear Madonna and do protest music.
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't care about that. But there are
Speaker 1: artists out there who are dreamings who came and get attention.
Speaker 1: I have friends dreams I can't get attention. So I
Speaker 1: was I'm not gonna out this guy, obviously, but I
Speaker 1: would just but again, to me, it shows his age.
Speaker 1: I would say them, instead of folks going on Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift or Madonna or Kyley, even Dug or whatever, go
Speaker 1: to people who are actually Mariah carrys without coming out.
Speaker 1: Don't go after them, go after the ones who are
Speaker 1: really putting out some great stuff that's meaning to it
Speaker 1: and mean something to you. Share that. That's how I
Speaker 1: just how. I mean, seriously, that's how I look at
Speaker 1: everything like that. That's how you that's how you do
Speaker 1: it to mean, that's age, that's wisdom. We all need
Speaker 1: breaks from stuff. You have to have breaks from stuff
Speaker 1: you go crazy. So I just I just that inspired
Speaker 1: this episode of fifty plus. I'm like this because most
Speaker 1: of you guys who are listening are over fifty. You know,
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: We know how do you separate? We know everybody has
Speaker 1: their place. Everybody has everybody has a place in the village.
Speaker 1: They do