We are now 42 out of 50 songs through the 50 states series, and the obvious question of what comes next was difficult to answer. Obviously, making around 200 songs for every country in the world is unreasonable, and to be honest, I might never finish that series to begin with. Instead, I’m considering other options, including more abstract options. For example, a song for every letter in the English alphabet, or just continuing without a set series (although I’m already doing that on my soundcloud), or other things like that. I’d like to get some user feedback on this.
Classical and occasionally electronic composer who also made a song for every state once.
Age 19, Male
Pre-med student
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
Joined on 11/26/20
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Yeah, I am very proud that you've come so far with your goal. I remember back when I discovered you through New York, I can't believe it's been a year. I think it might be a fun little challenge to do one for each world superpower, or you could just be like me and make whatever you feel like. Based on your long disappearances, I can tell that you're going to make these last few songs absolute masterpieces. I am excited to see what you make for these last few states!
I suppose now I should finally explain myself as to why I’ve been gone for months. It comes down to school mostly, that has been taking up a lot of my time as it always does this time of year. But there’s a more nuanced answer as to why I disappeared in addition: the success of Nevada. For some reason, whenever one of my songs does really well, I sorta take a hiatus for a while and worry that no matter what I’d post next, it would perform worse than the song I just posted. I like to improve my skills with every song, and knowing that it wouldn’t happen no matter what I did next is sorta demotivational. This happened with Florida, then Wyoming, then Nevada. Now my next song is actually almost done, it’s another multi-movement piece (but this time it’s completely orchestral).
I feel sad that New York, of everything, was the song you discovered me with (it’s probably in the bottom 5), but I’m glad you’ve stuck around until now. I have a plan for the final song: my overarching goal with it is to make this journey feel worth it in any way I can.
The-Great-One
That'll be interesting. Will it tell a cohesive story like Alphabet: The Series or be something entirely different?
https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/alphabettheseries
50Steaks
Congratulations, I am now all caught up on the alphabet series. I don’t really see a way to tell a cohesive story beyond within the songs themselves; this doesn’t mean they’ll be entirely unrelated though. The way I see the current series is a selection of 50 songs that are in a confederation (ironic, right?) but all have their own stories to tell, and I guess I wanted the same for this hypothetical alphabet series. And a word of warning, songs about letters are going to be abstract as can be, so it’s mainly up to interpretation how they will represent their respective letters.