i'm kind of laughing to myself. i've been getting upwards of 50 plays a day for a few weeks running now, and almost nobody ever makes it to the end of a track. i'm obviously not attracting the right kind of listener; these are things one needs to listen in *album length* chunks to get a full grasp of. i need to attract the kind of listener that makes it through to track 5 before they even begin to form an opinion. yet, such an audience may belong to more sophisticated times. that doesn't mean i can't have fun with the metrics.

it's almost like getting through one of these records or eps is like running a marathon, and all these weaklings that are getting to the page can't even get through a single track. which just makes me seem unfair, really. why create such a grueling track, you fucking masochistic lunatic!?!1! how am i supposed to make it through this? huh?

it's more of a disinterested creator than a masochistic one. reactions are largely meaningless to me. except maybe to laugh at how torturous an experience some of this must be when taken out of context by somebody looking for something conventional. i can imagine the horrified reaction, followed by the "skip button", which seems to dominate the play ratios. that's comedy gold to me.

it'd be nice if i could attract the right listener, though. i don't even mean in terms of enjoyment (an "audience"), but even just as having the approach of habitually listening to a few tracks sequentially when browsing. as a consumer, there's a lot of things i would have missed out on had i judged so quickly.

over the last month, ~45% of listeners have skipped the track before 0:30, indicating that they had no intention of listening to a new piece of music in the first place. ~52% have made it longer than that, but weren't able to complete the song. so, more than half tried, at least. yet, only 3.5% of listeners have been able to actually scale one of these epic peaks.

that's ok, i like the inaccessibility of it. but if i could get less of those people that will give up after 0:30...

i just don't get it...