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ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕞𝕖, 𝕨𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕣𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪­

Hi. 

If you’re reading this you’ve probably been following / listening to my music for a while cause who else would care to read a whole letter written by me! I just wanna say – it means so much to me that you find yourself in some way in my music and what I create. Every day it means more to me. 

Making music is one thing, but trying to make a career out of it is an entirely different beast. I was never prepared for so many of the aspects of it, and I only recently feel like I’ve actually come to understand who I am as an artist and what I want to represent. My new album 𝕃𝕒 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕒 is what I created through a period where every part of my pursuing it was tested. I spent one year feeling insanely euphoric and inspired, excited about what I was making, working with a bunch of different people and for the first time truly feeling in control of my shit. Then, I spent a year standing completely still and not being able to move forward with it because of things that were infuriatingly out of my control - and that are really just the symptom of an industry that  

1.     glorifies yet devalues the artist 

2.   is built on a very outdated paradigm that’s structured to convince the artist that making and releasing music/art is so much more complicated & difficult than it is - presumably to keep us from truly gaining control of our work  

3.     questions female artists and forces them to defend & fight for their work in a way that is completely disproportionate and exhausting

Anyway. I’m over it. Ya aprendí. But – for a year I was fighting really hard to get this album out and have real support behind it. At a few points I thought about deleting all of it so no one would have it. Which brings me to now.  

𝐼 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓇𝓉, 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒. 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑒. 

I want you to have it. I don’t care what happens with it in terms of success, I know my future music is only going to get better and better. But I hope you love it because honestly I’m really proud of it. The only reason I’m releasing it is because I’m thankful... you’re who I made it for, you’re who will bring it to life. None of the rest really matters. (but come to my shows and stream/buy my music!) 

With love, 

Tei Shi

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