30K!!!! CONGRATS!!!! Highkey one of my favorite teto songs, everyday I wish it was on spotify
4 months ago
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CONGRATULATIONS !!! :D its the song ive discovered you with because im a massive teto fan, i saw it was really underrated (had like less like 5k views iirc) then checked out your other stuff which had views only in the hundreds even though theyre high quality im glad the algorithm gave you a shot and you got recognition ^^
3 months ago
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Huge congrats!! Its so peak.... I love it so much....waow...30k....you cooked so hard....
4 months ago
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aiuralu
THANK YOU ALL!!!! YOU'RE CRAZY!!
So I prepared this gif in advance in case the milestone caught me while I was away from home, but I just got hit with the double whammy (30k views on TINAST and big double-Oh subscriber count) the night before leaving... Get ready for a cheeeeesy little message!
...SOBS.
I really appreciate it, I never expected "This Is Not a Special Time" to get much attention - much less THIS. I made it in maybe a month, rushed the crap out of everything except for the lyrics, and was quite frankly worried because at the time there seemed to be a fresh wave of SV Teto hate. I was like... ah shit, what if my tuning's grating? People say mixing her is hard, what if I'm terrible at it? What will people think if my first non-Lite song featured Teto?? What if the lyrics are too pretentious or don't make sense, or what if they're interpreted in bad faith, or wha--- Yep you get it. Anxiety's fun!
Anyway, needless to say I was and still am overjoyed to see the song not only receive so much positive feedback, but to know it CONNECTED with people. There's no better feeling than making someone feel moved, understood, changed because of something you whipped up with a drill-bearing blorbo and an online DAW. Isn't it wild?!
More than anything, I feel incredibly lucky to have my most popular song so far be a very direct, raw encapsulation of my outlook on... everything. The way I worded it may be confusing, and sure, people will interpret it in their own way, but it feels so liberating to say everything that's been on your mind and have it roam free in the ears and hearts of others. To have my most personal piece reach the most people is uhhhhhh. Intimidating! But so cool!
And if you just enjoy choppily bitcrushed instrumentals, that's more than enough, as well!
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My friends can tell you how unreasonably stressed I was about releasing this. I generally try not to rant/vent because it doesn't help me personally, but there I was blasting their whatsapp with Teto yapping. So many of the songs that have/will come after TINAST were already in the works at that point, and if I didn't wanna post this on New Year's it would've probably stayed in my drafts. But thank you to my friends for supporting me (if you're reading this. hiiii <3), thank you to this song for taking a weight off my chest AND for being the reason I bought Teto, thank you to everyone who interacted with the song in any capacity...!!! And on the subject of the song itself.. I hope everyone who feels lost, empty or trapped, who might've found themselves in the lyrics of this song, can live a good life. Please keep holding on. Try your best not to limit yourself when it can be helped, and don't let other people tell you what to do or who you are. Stay safe!
Aaaand of course, have a good rest of your day, everyone! I'll keep doing this and... we'll just have to see how it goes!
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