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Room for Improvement - MP3!
🕑 Added 2021-09-26 19:37:31 +0000 UTC"Look I know I said I'd upload these songs just after the video but I had to grab a bap on the M25."
I had a blast making this song and video but in truth, the whole project was born of convenience. I had all my content planned ahead to cover my time out I needed to move house but the whole process took WAY longer and I needed something I could make to cover the gap in my plans.
I was sat in my kitchen, surrounded by boxes, flanked by decorators working on the house and racking my brains trying to think of something to make that I could do whilst also juggling everything else. What can I make that doesn't need me to build a fancy set, do loads of VFX post production or assemble a complex costume?
Having just released Fragments to only limited success over on YT, after a chat with my partner manager about how the video performed we determined that videos that don't feature me at all risk underperforming as my appearance in the video is something people expect from the channel. So I couldn't risk making another gameplay only video so soon. I needed to make a live action music video! But WHAT?
Honestly I felt so, SO stupid when I realised I was literally already surrounded by the perfect pre-made set for a House Flipper video. Because by that point I'd spent 2 days either staring blankly at a laptop or writing half-songs for games I'd then realise were too ambitious or deserved better videos than I could make in a few weeks.
So that's how we ended up here! I usually spend weeks or months pre-planning and preparing my content so rarely does a project like this, one made very much spontaneously, some around. But I actually think that ended up helping, it was really fun to make. (Even if I ended up being incredibly ill when filming half of it)
Sorry again for my delay in posting this! Patreon is gonna be getting a lot more attention going forward and I've got some cool stuff on the way just for you guys!
Comments
Andrew Romig
Just want to say that I, too, loved Fragments and have probably watched it at least 10 times (in addition to the MP3). While it's good and fun to see you in videos, that isn't what I'm about. I'm here for the music. Appear in all, appear every once in a while, appear in none. It ain't gonna effect my view count or my Patreon support. As long as you keep producing great music, I'm staying right here. I can't imagine people complaining about the icing when the cake is this delicious.
mpop
Personally I liked this song alot better than both fragments and the life is strange one.
The Stupendium
I had not thought if it that way! :P It feels odd to say it. Saying that a song with a few hundred thousand views was an 'underperformer' would blow my mind a few years ago. But actually, it was one of my worst performing videos of the year!
Dale Bristow
Really, Fragments underperformed? I actually enjoyed that one more than usual. How does it feel to know that your looks are earning you money though.
