My music production partner and I have been making beats together for years and we have this incredible creative chemistry in the studio, but now that we're trying to turn it into a business, every creative decision has become tangled up with money and strategy in ways that are making the music feel calculated. We're both ambitious, but the business planning is poisoning the creative process and we don't know how to separate them.
More people experience this than they realize.
The introduction of commercial considerations into a pure creative collaboration is creating a contamination that threatens both the artistic integrity and the partnership's original magic.
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