The fastest growing social network of recent years is also proving a fertile ground for young ists to make a name for themselves – it’s time to get to know the rising stars of TikTok.
When you think of TikTok, if all that comes to mind is dance trends and comedy skits then you’re missing out. The platform experienced an explosion of global popularity over the course of the pandemic and now boasts over one billion active users each month. It’s therefore no surprise that musicians from across the globe have taken to this Gen Z-dominated, video-based app to showcase their talent for the world, but did you know that TikTok is also home to a diverse and unique community of ists?
If you didn’t you’re about to get educated, as we tracked down three of the biggest names in the world of TikTok – each of them boasting their own unique relationship with , and quirky new ways to play. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the way that TikTok ists approach the instrument may boggle the minds of those who favour the good old days of hair metal, big-time amplification and jam-packed pedalboards. But fear not, the magic of is not going anywhere, but an exciting shift in the ways in which we play and share our music is about to erupt with the rise of the next generation. Let us get you acquainted…
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Conor is a London-based artist, songwriter and producer who is conquering TikTok with his quirky aesthetic videos and soulful, jazz influenced . At just 21, he has released two EP’s and has a following of over 50, 000 on TikTok. His ways of making music are far from traditional, but show that the future holds endless possibilities for re-inventing what we expect of a ist.
“I started playing when I was eight but I started producing before then, so was only there to serve the production which is kind of what it is now. I don’t really consider myself a ist or a keyboardist or bassist; I’m using those instruments to serve a purpose. I’ll hear something in a song and I’ll learn it so I can put it in one of my songs. When I was a teen, I started getting into neo-soul and hip-hop and that was a big kick up the arse to start playing a bit more. It’s been a lot more serious since then.”
“My manager was encouraging me to get on it. I’d never really used it, I downloaded it once and it was just girls dancing, I remember deleting it but I was posting them on Instagram anyway as I’d started posting beats last October, so he suggested I may as well post them on both. I think I just got kind of lucky at the beginning, the third or fifth video ended up becoming used in a TikTok trend so it got a lot of attention.”
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@conor_albert ok we back !!! 🎸⚡️ #jams #beats #lofibeats #neosoul #rnb #jazz # #bass #drums #loop #loops #jam #lofibeat #hellyeah ♬ original sound – Conor Albert Who influences the jazzy-indie sound you produce?
“There are a lot of influences from when I was really young that I attained through osmosis I suppose; early Justin Timberlake, a lot of stuff produced by The Neptunes and a lot of early 2000s hip-hop was always around the house. The chords and harmony in those records subconsciously entered my brain when I was around 15. My theory is that those are the formative years of your musical taste and it amalgamated at that point. I started listening to loads of FKJ, I became creepily obsessed with him and I watched all of his live videos and brought the same keyboard he had. I think at that stage that was kind of a good thing to do, to copy him a bit, it was a really good form of practice of what was to come. Around that time I also loved classic neo soul records like
by D’Angelo, and artists like Hiatus Kaiyote. More recently I’ve been more into pop-folk like John Mayer and Phoebe Bridgers, I never really got into them before I feel like I’m late to the party!”
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“I do everything through the computer, I’ve never had an amp or pedals. Before the rehearsals started for a show I was doing a while ago I bought loads of pedals, I spent so much money thinking this is what you have to do to be a ist because I was in a transitional period where I wanted to switch over from playing keys to be a ist so I bought all these pedals and then realised that I didn’t need them at all, and for the sounds that I did need I would have to spend so much money and the pedal board would become ridiculously big. I ended up selling them all and just bought the Boss ME-80. I think a lot of people slag it off, but it has every effect and sound you could ever want! I’ve been using it for live shows but for TikTok it’s all just in the box and using AmpliTube 4 and Ableton.”
“I think there’s two things. The first one is just getting some kind of style. I think I got lucky that I found something that worked later on. Early this year I did cloning videos where there’s multiple of me in a room playing all the instruments. People have done that before like Jacob Collier but they’d only done it in select videos and I was doing it every day. I think if you have a good style it’s like a marketing thing, if you see something three times, you’re more likely to follow. You can be the most amazing ist but if you don’t have that aesthetic people won’t always click.
“When I first started I was doing a video every day and that was stressful but I think in this day and age it is kind of necessary. People think you’re busy and ‘popping off’ and it creates a perception in people’s minds, they are constantly aware of you. I was getting messages from people all the time I might have known for the last year that now suddenly wanted to work with me. That’s exactly what happened with me and Tom Misch. We had been aware of each other for a year or so and he was like ‘Yo, we should get in the studio!’”
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23-year-old independent artist, Jon, has gained over 500 million views across social media. Based in Upstate New York, he tours with his band Xistance and a range of other artists. With a degree in Music Business and Music Performance, Jon really knows his stuff when it comes to making it big as a ist in 2021.
“A musician friend had a TikTok page in early to mid 2019. He urged me to hop on the platform because he thought I would do great on it. My first video got over two million views and it wasn’t actually about music, it was a video of a car and a flooded parking garage. Shortly after I started posting videos of me playing and singing. Since then I’ve gone viral countless times, and had around half a billion views in total.”
“I’m 23 years old and I’ve been playing for about 16 years now. My Dad had owned Music Lovers Shoppe for 30 years in Rochester, New York so there were always musical instruments coming in and out of my house at a young age because of his passion for not only the business, but the instruments themselves. One day he came home with a little Squier Strat for me to have as my own .
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“The next day, my dad was driving down the street coming home from running errands and he saw me at the edge of the driveway strumming the with one hand. I had a little table set up, my money chest where I saved all my coins as a kid and a sign that said ‘ $10’. My dad pulled up to me and said ‘Oh man, don’t be sorry if you didn’t make any money today. It’s very hard to make a living in music.’ And I responded, ‘Dad, please. I made almost five bucks today!’ Not long after I saw the movie
where Steve Vai and Ry Cooder did a lot of work for the soundtrack. It was there and I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”
“I first realised TikTok could be a major asset in growing an audience when I started to get comments and messages from some of my idols early on, that was amazing to me. I could reach some of the most influential people and artists from the comfort of my own home, for free. Social media will always amaze me that way. I use social media as a tool to challenge myself to constantly create and learn. Whether that means playing
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