I just got kicked out of my now former band. It’s definitely a VH1 Behind the Music moment. Or World Star Hip Hop. All apologies for airing this out, of course.
But the guy who I was in a band with was someone who I thought was my Asian-American/Japanese brother and good friend and I heard him out whenever he vented about the band drama which I never got myself involved with and our thirtysomething mid-life crisis. I didn’t read the message last night while it was sent to me via PM. But this morning, my former friend/band mate messaged me on text going all ape shit on me. I kept it calm and collected somehow.
But man. That was pretty crucial. You can’t trust a lot of people these days in this generation and I feel bad because I opened up to the dude before seeing his true colors. Thought the dude was my Japanese-American brother from another mother but that hit pretty hard at first. Dude couldn’t make up his mind with me being in the band and this wasn’t the first time he went off on me. I wasn’t trying to do anything wrong man! He just went all bipolar (not saying it’s wrong to be) over someone who he thought was his bro. And the shit happened four times already via text!
Today was not a very good day for me. But I’ll move forward, take my losses and find some other ways to do music with other bands for sure.
Normally, I don’t air out things like this on social-media and I’m not a very negative person and try to be subtle with it. But as an Asian-American male and also an Asian-American in the music business, we all gotta stick together and help lift each other higher to reach our goals. It’s a very cut throat business and I know being an Asian-American male is hard (especially when mental health involved) but damn dude.
I dunno why I posted this, but man. That hit me hard. Hope you guys can cheer me up by sending me some motivational words and positive outlooks.
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