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Household Drama Overview. By: Shotty Mills My song “Household Drama” is my most heartfelt song of my album “Show and Tell”. This song reflects the pains, and horrors I encountered growing up in my hometown. In all this is definitely one of my favourite songs, I have recorded to date. To me this song stands out to serve, as example of a humble beginning. For instance, how one can come from nothing in their life to create something. This song has connections with my upcoming book “Shoot your Shot: Land Amongst the Stars”. In this book, I explain more in depth the struggles that I circled around growing up. In one of my lines in “Household Drama”, I exhibi...

Networking in Music and Life

October 12, 2020

Networking in Music and in Life . By: Shotty Mills. I love connecting with people and helping people. In today’s world we are swarmed into connecting with people. It’s a fast paced world out there, and everything is advancing at an accelerating rate. How do we keep up with the technology hiatus that’s occurring around us? Well, there are benefits to technology that we can reap. When you connect with people on a daily basis, you are expanding my network. These days, I spend a few hours networking with new people within the music industry. Also, I connect with people outside the music industry as well. This way, I can expand myself in numerous areas. And another person can t...

Shotty Mills and His Upcoming Release Syndrome

December 19, 2021

New Single from Shotty Mills "Syndrome" Overview By:Shotty Mills With Shotty's upcoming release "Syndrome" it has a unique storyline behind it. It will entice an audience, as it carries a sickness for any hip hop listener to catch. And once you catch it, you better count your symptoms. This new single from the hometown artist out of Drayton Valley will exhibit the idea of how we all carry a sickness within in us. But it's up to you how you manage those symptoms and utilize it to fuel your engine. This song carries a more melodic flow and tone to it that will draw in listeners on a global scale. With a plethora of influences from Shotty Mills. This one is inspired by his idol Eminem, J.Cole, Kendrick Lamar and his 2 Pac. The original storyline behind this will give a listeners only a small sample of what is to come firing at you from Shotty Mills in 2022. Recently, Shotty dropped numerous singles in this past year. Despite, the pandemic occurring. Shotty Mi...

Find your Niche in Music

October 26, 2020

Find your Niche in Music . By: Shotty Mills. A niche within the music industry is how you stand out amongst the crowd. Think of it, in the form of how an animal is prominent within their environment. The environment that your create within your music can establish varying moods and emotions. Focus on that and building up your niche. This niche that you build will be a baseline for your music within the near future. With me at first, I struggled to develop my niche as an artist. But I’ve laid out the groundwork for my niche as an artist now. Ask yourself: what’s my niche and how can I portray it to my audience effectively. For me, I apply ...

Sales and Business Development

December 07, 2022

Sales and Business Development By: Shotty Mills Sales and business is as lucrative as it gets. When interacting with different people, you know that within sales you will be in direct contact with a wide range of different people. The business world is always innovating in more ways than one. In order to develop business one must understand the basis of how the business is ran from top of the executives to the bottom. In sales, you always see how closing deals goes down. When you close a deal, you are ultimately building that rapport with the future client or lead. A lead in business is described as an investment into having a future client or future business opportunity. Sometimes the opportunities that present themselves in the landscape of business come in the form of abundance. While at other times they can come at an even higher cost. When you grow a business at the beginning. It can almost feel that there is no traction that is leading you in the right general direction. But...

Shooting for the Stars with Shotty Mills Knowing your Value

January 03, 2023

Shooting for the Stars with Shotty Mills Knowing your Value Brought to you by Buzzsrpout When you know your value in the marketplace and your network. It will change everything in Shotty Mills new podcast episode he touches upon how knowing your value within your network can be a valuable asset to have. The value that you provide to your network can ultimately come back to you in ten folds. Those that you network with can have a drastic effect on the life that you create. The Shooting for the Stars movement serves a blueprint to place more emphasis on encouraging people to realize their potential. Your value should be never be devalued in the eyes of another person. Sometimes it takes losing value of yourself to truly see the value within yourself and those around you. Now, think about the value that you provide in the world for a moment. Does it provide value to those around you and empower you? If not it's worth the breathe of fresh air. In Shotty Mills new podcast e...

The Art of Music

November 02, 2020

The Art of Music By: Shotty Mills. The music industry has numerous forms of art of music. Art in music means that through music, you can make and create whatever your heart desires. When you speak from your heart that is also known as the art of music. For all those artists out there, you must know that music is a form of art. This form of art can change the shape of your musical future. Artistically music can have, a variety of meanings to numerous people. An artist is someone, who knows what they represent, and where they stand. For all the creatives out there, keep on creating content like you ...

Mixed Emotions Song Overview

February 05, 2021

Mixed Emotions Song Overview By:Shotty Mills The one and only "Shotty Mills" has released his new single "Mixed Emotions". This song depicts the idea of the struggles that Shotty had encountered growing up in his household. These struggles became pertinent and ultimately changed the scenery of his life. Thus, through Shotty's mixed emotions he is ultimately aiming to the color the world around him. In a pandemic world everyone is struggling to find their way, and stand their ground emotionally. We all have emotions that seemingly bottle up inside all of us. But how we overcome these emotions is solely based on our perception of our emotions that we experience. And through these emotional experiences we find ways to recourse and regain our traction within our lifetime. Sometimes the emotions will try to come to test against you. But as Shotty quotes in his track "All the constant emotions are mixing me up, And apart of me is mixed like my feelings are unfel...

Does your Music Provide Value?

January 17, 2021

Does your Music Provide Value? By: Shotty Mills. Ask yourself: what value does your music carry along with it? Music carries a heavy heart amongst the variety of all of its listeners. If music was seen in the form of value. It will embody the service that one aims to provide. Within the music industry there’s a streamline of music that is seen as taboo. Since that music doesn’t provide reasonable value to its target audience. Musically speaking as an artist. The music that we deliver to our desired audience should provide value. When your music provides value, it changes the landscape of music overall. Never sell yourself short of your capability to change th...

Targeting your Audience

September 22, 2021

Targeting your Audience as a Brand By: Shotty Mills As you aim to target your audience as a brand. It's important that you understand the concept behind targeting your audience as an overall brand. As a brand there are numerous ways for you to target your specific audience, but targeting your audience accordingly can pose more of a challenge. Some ways that you can target your audience as an artist is to aim at understanding the demographics behind your audience firstly. Your audience is what you truly do chose to invest into your audience. When you are a brand like Shotty Mills himself, you will know that you yourself are marketing yourself as a business. Therefore, this further stresses the importance of targeting an audience in that marketing yourself as business creates more traction and generates more overall leads. The moment that you understand who you are audience is and how you are going to target this audience. The more likely you as an audience will find your path...