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I Think Short-term Goals Are Important. Trying To Set A Missive For Yourself For The Entire Year Can Be Daunting, And It Can Feel Too Easy To Fail Or Fall Short Of That.

I Think It's Very Disheartening And Undermining To Focus On Nostalgia Or Youthful Sentimentality As The Lens Through Which You View Art And Culture, Because Then You Feel Like Everything Good Already Happened. I Really Just Try To Be In The Present With Music And Just Find The Things That Are Invigorating And Make Me Feel Happy To Be Alive Right Now.

I Like To Take Things Incrementally, And Strive For Something That Feels More Attainable.

I'll Admit That I'm Not Quite Certain How To Sum Up An Entire Year In Music Anymore; Not When Music Has Become So Temporal, So Specific And Personal, As If We Each Have Our Own Weather System And What We Listen To Is Our Individual Forecast.

I Think That The Intentions Are Genuine In The Search For Authenticity, But It Can Tip Over Into Absurdity So Quickly. I Just Start To Wonder, Like, What Authenticity Even Is, And Whether We Can Even Start To Define It In Such A Globalized World.