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Why creative passion dies under commercial pressure

My band finally got signed but now that we have to make music for money I cannot write anything that feels real anymore and I hate everything we produce.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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External validation and financial necessity have corrupted the intrinsic joy that originally fueled creative expression.

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