ALBUM LISTEN AS AN ESCAPE/EXPERIENCE

 


   Aversion to the quick commercialized airplay on the radio, abundance of data at least enough form network providers night plan, music apps, channels and options give albums listen  a whole new gumption and preference We have time, we have boredom, we have enough data to listen to your album.And there goes you, schadenfreude desperate to make it in the music industry and deciding to put every single in your album, WRONG!! Your album have to be an escape or an experience.
Don’t put every good single in your album if it doesn’t correlate and have the same feel as the other songs in the album, no matter how interesting radio worthy or catchy it is, it destroys the album listen as an experience, frankly I delete albums due to this simple mistake, Dont just make an album without thinking about the next song and the correlation between the first and the second song. Michael Kiwanuka perfected this in his album Kiwanuka where every song had a snippet and intro  to the next, allowing for the complete musical digestibility of your album.
Let your songs in the album correlate let them lead from the one to the other, rather than junking up your best singles to form an album, the album becomes dirty, and without beauty. This is also one of the best things about Forest hills Drive, as each songs leads up to the next
Correlation is very important, It might save your album, your album have to be an escape or an experience through and through (what kind of experience, that is entirely up to you) 
Don’t go abrading people with highs and lows off your album just because you have these individual singles that you think will do well. You have to understand that your entire album is just another song beside another album you album's drawback or re-listening value stems and only stems after the first listen to the feel and what the listener is trying to relive, so if you have an album that junks up singles (ungh) Nah.
There must be a flowing theme, string or piano joining all the entire songs in the album, Making it an experience or I listen to this album when I am sad
Not playing a song and the next song will be jumpy , putting the emotions of your listener all over the place, You should care for your listener , which is why J Cole says that he listens to his albums before releasing it on cheap earpieces and other sounds systems because he knows this are the devices that the most of his listeners will be listening with and want to understand how to better get to them. 
   Most artistes forget that the studio contain a lot of speaker that makes the song looks good and interesting but might not be so for the affordable cheap speakers or earpiece that your listeners are privy to, and what might sound interesting might be another generic songs
Let me, Generic albums are the problems now, to filter out from the shit load of people who follow the style of others and singing quite softly with dumb lyrics, thinking maybe someone somewhere will buy into this crap are just too much, not to one time artistes who can’t take a little bit of introspection for their next project, after their maiden album they plummet to absolute rubbish, pardon the digression but some artistes just need to be shot. 
A lot of Nigerian albums have this problem, you have too many songs and a lot of them don’t correlate to each other in the album, one song you are happy and create a party banger another song the next song is a downer (what who is this?)
Many of them coming form poverty and use music as a springboard bring a lot of that sadness to their craft rather than chasing the beauty in their craft, They bemoan the industry recall struggles, junk up singles in what I call the ouroborous of schadenfreude and the Nigerian music industry.
You have an album that only has a single that is nice, but the overall album ,rubbish. It is a cluster of emotions and with modern day sensory overload, Your album will be deleted, not for bad song but because of a cohesive lack of beauty. You couldn’t arrange your songs in correlation.


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