7 min

we had a meeting with ava yesterday | that's our manager | we showed her the new song | she wasn't very enthusiastic | yes yes really nice she said| and whether we had already thought about how to promote something like this | because releasing such a long song is totally bollocks these days | spotify only pays for the first 30 secs and everything after that doesn't really matter | to get into playlists the songs have to be as short as possible | and if there's nothing crazy interesting happening after a few seconds people swipe away anyway | and she couldn't spot a good 20 sec snippet for tiktok either >

we were all sitting there like drowned rats | to be honest we did it a bit on purpose | just thought it was cool to go against every trend and make a 7 min monster with several parts and no real chorus | we felt like real rebels | but we didn't realize that we were making ava's work almost impossible that way | and even if it feels good to make music without commercial compromise in the end you want it to be heard by a few people right? >

then silke spoke up who had only been sitting by like some granny version of yoko ono | that she knows an editor from antenne bayern quite well and that she could definitely do something there | ava tried to explain to her that they will never play a 7 min song on the radio but silke didn't care at all | if we had a decent promo budget at all? | that we just have to say if we needed money | oh man it's just like always | no idea about anything but she always has to play it big | luckily everyone else was against accepting money from her >

but the problem remains | do you maybe have any ideas how to get people to listen to 7 min of music straight through?