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Thanks for the video, Nia! I liked it.
@Daniel_Dewey, can you prove this song wrong?
This is great!
(Not sure if you already know this, but posting it in case it's helpful to anyone) Not-so-pro tip: your distributor only pays your sound recording royalties; streaming services send the mechanical and/or performance royalties for the underlying musical composition to a CMO (such as PRS for Music in the UK) which pays you separately.
On Spotify, composition royalties are about 1/5 of the share of revenue that Spotify pays to the owners of sound recordings, so realistically, it's probably just a few extra cents from streaming alone. But I feel like it's a good practice to claim them anyway. Enrolling a song in a CMO also enables the song to be played at live venues (e.g. if an EAG/x conference wanted to play the song, they'd license it through the CMO and you'd get paid).
I'm really sorry you feel that way.
And yes, I can "relate". In fact, since I listened to it yesterday, I have not been able to gather the strength to focus on studying. I expect this to pass until tomorrow, but I do wonder what your goal is here. Are you trying to spread defeatist attitudes among EAs?
No, I still work on this problem every day. My goal is to acknowledge a passing feeling many of us may have, the sometimes emotional difficulties of working hard on a big challenging problem, and the difficulty of figuring out what exactly to do. The conclusion I draw is that there is probably something I could do, despite it sometimes feeling like a big unsolvable problem. And I do it!
Ok. More power to you, then :)
Impactful song of the year Grammys 2026