Indie Advice List 1

 Straight Up is on that list!

Thanks a lot.

 

 

 

Now start making sense, gimme that promo video!

 JoosTVD - Straight Up    Lyrics/ Music: JoosTVD [2025]

Straight out straight up

Do you feel like you don't belong here 

Straight out straight up

You don't want to be all wrong right now

Straight out straight up

Do you feel like you can't talk freely

Straight out straight up 

You don't want to tell the truth right now

Don't/ Go wake up to the world awake 

Go waste time, you've got plenty go waste time

Don't waste time  you ain't got plenty

 

 

 

"Straight Up" that's the new song, that starts off my latest album "Collapse". As for you video geeks out there, I'm a musician, this is pure DIY, so I've kept it simple. As I was experimenting with all sorts of new album covers, the idea to use the same album cover with different backgrounds was born. 

Voilà!

First I sing "straight out", which means "immediately". "Straight up" in slang means really, real, truthfully, honest. My simple 'message': to be who you want to be, sort of a call for everyone to live in total freedom. The music? An upbeat, funky, danceable ditty to keep it breezy.

As you can/ will witness, I've made a lyric video just for the effect of the simplicity of the words.

It's not always that difficult! 

With a low budget use of the Veed editor (hence the watermark!)

Enjoy!

Next: Total collapse!

Pssst... I've got a brand new album called "Collapse"

Hai folks, my gut says speak again! Yes, I'm still breathing.... musically the most. It's that time of the year. 12 songs this time, more than enough to get you all hooked. I can only go with the natural flow and there were a lot of ideas, but the songs I've chosen fit the best on this album. Writing and playing are always the most fun part of the proces, mixing and mastering took a while. The album is called Collapse and it will be released 6 june 2025 on all the regular online streaming platforms, so click away!

                                                                     Collapse

Original picture by Y.van Weert

 

That title almost immediately came up, because of a picture my wife took of me during a casual walk on a very long bridge from island to island (and it eventually inspired the front cover). A bridge to what? I guess the most obvious explanation behind the title is the turmoil in the world of today and how I look at it in general. The fear. Angst. Anger. Total breakdown. Will I cross over? What will happen? Will the bridge collapse? At any moment? 

The final result, if you see it in a more light-hearted way, you can see what will cause the collapse of this crossing. Is it some white paint or milk? Well, you can use your imagination I guess.

I've been using a lot of online designers in the past and this time 'Adobe Express' came into view. Thinking, "So what if I change the background this time?" I only kept the bridge, take me to it!

 

 

                   Some examples: 

   

The music though, is not that depressing I think and that's exactly what I aim for, the upbeat... and music is still a consistent factor in my life. Lucky me! 

Pretentious, me? I do what I like. 

 

 

 

So what it is. Pop music, melodic with a bit of those jazzy, latinesque, bluesy, funky patterns, comic vibes that keep crawling out of my head.                            

The songs

But how do I keep the music upbeat? It sounds easy, but simply, I cannot write when I'm down, unhappy, sad. I'm a fly on the wall. The songs come in a spur of waves and sometimes real fast afterward the awkward feelings. I'm more self-reflective after the troubles of life and I like that! It can be anger or joy, but that's all the energy I need. Like a SpongeJoosTVD, I suck it (what?) all in and push it out.

I'll keep U updated, so come back! 

                                                                      The results:

 

 

Front Cover

 

 

Back Cover

 

                        Next: now make some sense, gimme that promo video!