like… an infection?
the last week has been nutso. i released my video into the wild on Sunday, July 26th and eight days later today (Aug 4th) it has already close to 20,000 views.
now, i am NO youtube partner with a half million subscribers getting notified every time their favorite youtube celebrity posts something new. i think i maybe had a dozen max subscribers when i put the video up and that included my brother, a friend here or there, and maybe one or two viewers scavenged from superfuture. OH, and my best friend’s mom. yeah!!!
so because of this, i really didn’t expect it to spread so far this fast (glad i’m talking about a video here). it’s really overwhelming to think about the seemingly endless space that is the internet and how information travels within it. this is not to say i didn’t submit the video to some blogs myself, and my friends have been amazing and have been posting it on facebook and twitter and their blogs. i mean, it’s not like i’ve gone onto kpop fansites and posed as a tween to show some people the vid on a boa forum or anything. pshh… heh… i would NEVER do that… pff… (can someone be arrested for that?)
either way, this shit is spreading. and that, to me, is CRAYZAY. and fun. and exciting. it makes me want to do more. and be even riskier. and weirder. haha.
it’s also exciting to me that this might give asian artists more exposure in a way they maybe weren’t expecting. some people probably don’t really get asian pop music, but i’m kinda seriously loving the crazy/cute/weird/fun stuff coming outta the land of my ancestry. asians are great! it’s like a window into my alternate universe. a possible answer to the question, “what woulda happened if my family never moved to the states.” would i still have steered toward becoming a performer? would i have had the chance to express myself authentically?
i could trip out on that for a loooong time.
