(2/35) — Book Three
Tom is a dude who has been writing lyrics for 29 years — that is all he does. He does not sing, does not play instruments, and does not make music himself, other than giving his opinion on how to improve a piece. He had 10,000 subscribers on YouTube when it first came out and made 120 songs with singers, songwriters, and artists from all over the world — using YouTube to find talent to turn his words into actual songs — even rocking China. He fell madly in love with a John Lennon-woman type — think Susanna Hoffs in her musical and physical prime, haha. He tried to court her, traveled far to visit, stayed three months — it didn't work out. He came back broken, continued to write, but stopped making music. Yada yada yada. He dented a can, had cats, and now he's got his shit back together.
NOW, he wants to turn the internet into real life — making songs live with full audience participation while simultaneously letting everybody else in the world do the same thing: make original music from these lyrics. The words are free. The music you make with them is yours. Every contributor — melody, arrangement, vocals, production — owns what they built, gets credited in the chain, and is entitled to a share of whatever that song earns. Nobody at the top takes a cut before the people who actually made something get paid. His misfortunes became everybody's gain, and this unique situation became the ground for disrupting an absolute system of musical fuckery.
Think of it this way: 434 lottery tickets. Every single one of them is a song waiting to be scratched. Most have never been recorded. They are sitting there waiting for the right musician, the right voice, the right moment. If one hits, everybody who helped make it wins. Who wants to scratch a ticket?
Lyrics by Collaborhythm Collabtunes Tom Jensen
Over the course of putting the finishing touches on this project the idea of just giving all my lyrics away for people to use to make music came to me. So THAT is what I DID….
Or rather WHAT I WILL DO on September 1st is open up all my lyrics in this 34 ALBUMS collection to the public to make songs. That gives me May, June, July and August to be a FREE AGENT. Let's START a bidding war…
I need a venue to make music live, I need healthcare, we need to make an app…..