Music, Soul & Stories from Simone Song
Ask someone their favorite song and they'll give you one answer. Check their Spotify Wrapped and you'll often find something completely different. That gap between the music we declare and the music we return to is one of the most fascinating things about being a listener—and one of the most humbling things about being an artist. Here's what the science and the personal experience actually say.
Being a solo artist sounds like total freedom—and it is, until you realize freedom can feel a lot like being the only person at your own party. This is an honest look at what it actually takes to build something real when you're the whole operation. The loneliness is real, but so is the connection.
Social media, livestreams, and Discord servers have collapsed the distance between artists and fans in ways that feel genuinely wonderful—until they don't. Here's my honest attempt to untangle what it means to build real community while navigating the strange intimacy of being known by people you've never met.
There's a particular kind of humbling that comes with being the opening act—walking out to a venue that's barely a third full, watching people order drinks instead of looking at the stage. But those early sets taught me more about performing than any sold-out show ever could.
I never planned to let a recommendation engine influence my songwriting. Then I started paying attention to how people actually find music, and everything got more complicated. This is my honest reckoning with algorithms, authenticity, and what it means to write for real humans in a world run by data.
Putting together a live show sounds simple until you're staring at a decade's worth of songs and realizing you barely recognize the person who wrote half of them. Here's how I turned that chaos into something that actually moves people. Turns out, the setlist is the most honest thing about a concert.
Forget the romanticized image of a songwriter at a grand piano with a perfectly lit candle. Simone Song pulls back the curtain on the quirky, counterintuitive rituals that actually fuel her creative process — and shares why breaking the "rules" might be exactly what your music needs.
Some songs don't just play — they reveal. In this deeply personal essay, Simone Song reflects on the moments when music became the only honest mirror she had, guiding her through heartbreak, identity shifts, and the long, winding road back to herself.