7/4/2023 0 Comments Tai verdes stuck in the middle![]() You gotta realize you’re bad in order to get better. When I started making music, I started making bad music, which I think is really important. When did you start making your own music? He chatted with NYLON about the release of the official "Stuck In The Middle" video, what it takes to make a viral hit and why if you have an inkling to try something new, you should "go fucking do it." I don’t really know what’s going to happen next, to be honest. But I do know this: That’s where the attention is.Now, with "Stuck In The Middle" having hit #1 on the Spotify US Viral Charts, Verdes is working on a debut EP. And if they do, it’s not going to be in the same way. What are we talking next? People are not going to remember TikTok in 20 years. The whole crowd is there, like 35,000 people, and they all go “living in this big blue world,” wall of sound. There’s this big video of me at Lollapalooza doing “A-O-K.” And I don’t even sing. I ended up doing shows like Lollapalooza. It was really cool to see not only the internet translate into streaming, but the internet translated into ticket sales. People were wondering, Can somebody that’s on TikTok sell tickets? I was one of the first people that sold tickets in major markets. I think a lot of people love that type of underdog story.Īnother thing that happened after going viral is that my first headline tour sold out. I portrayed myself as this person, which I was at the time, as this new artist that was really trying to get it. I had a lot of advantages that I’m super-thankful for. I had parents who allowed me to go into music. So people had this baseline of like, Oh, this is a regular guy that has a job in reality. When you see a Justin Bieber, a Camila Cabello, a Shawn Mendes, it’s hard to imagine them at Subway. I was on with the CEO of Capitol records for 15 minutes and I tell him, “Sorry, we gotta reschedule because I have to sell these phones.”Įverybody works, and that’s something that people relate to. All the heads of all these companies were calling me at Verizon during my break. It’s crazy, because right when I put it on Spotify, you could see people going from TikTok to Spotify. Then I posted another video the next day of, like, the pre-chorus, and then it gets another 100,000 views and I’m like, Oh, okay. I’d seen people get 10 million views on TikTok. It’s not like I got out of that car thinking, This is the best song. So then after I said that line, it kind of just fell out of me.Īnd then on my drive back to my house I listened back and enjoyed it to the point where I was smiling, windows down. And then my toxic ex pops in my head and I’m just like, “you’re a player aren’t you, and I bet you got hoes” and that’s the epitome of starting with a good premise. I’m listening to it, and I’m like, Okay, first line, first line. I had to buy it eventually if something worked. I knew that I had to have something that wasn’t viewed a lot because I needed it to be mine. Usually a lot of these beats have 50,000 to 100,000, maybe 1 million, views on them because they’re so good. ![]() I’m going on YouTube searching like “Harry Styles–type beat.” And then after going around I found this beat that had like a thousand views, which is so small. The whole vibe of the internet is loud rap beats, a lot of trap beats, a lot of low-fi beats, but there’s not a lot of, like, instrumental indie stuff. I’m on the seventh level of hell of YouTube every single night. And I was listening to YouTube beats because that’s how I find my music. I was going through a toxic relationship. Your premise has to be so good that you need to know what’s next. My brother told me, “You have to hook people in the first two lines.” And that’s what I live by now. ![]()
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