【SHINJIRO ATAE 「Lay Me Down」(SAM SMITH cover)】
It has almost been four months since I announced the resumption of my artist activities.
Working as an independent artist has been a great learning experience. I have more freedom in setting my own time schedule, which has allowed me to spend a lot of time exploring myself and my creativity. While there are many things I want to sing and express, there are also many other things I want to try out. Sometimes I’ve even felt a little stuck, unsure of where to start.
What I decided to do in the end was go back to my basics and embrace my love for music. I decided to sing a few cover songs. These are songs that I love and are important to me.
The first song I covered was "Lay Me Down" by SAM SMITH, an artist that I deeply respect.
As creators, we are happy when people get a chance to see what we’ve made.
I hope you enjoy it.
アーティスト活動再開を報告させていただき、そろそろ4か月が経とうとしています。
歌いたい事や表現したいことは沢山ある一方で、他に挑戦したい事も色々ある事と、今はある程度自由にタイムスケジュールを組める事もあり、納得のいくものをつくる為に、
「あーじゃないこーじゃない」と
制作に時間をかけてしまい、少し煮詰まってしまう時期がありました。
そんな時期にチームで話し合う中で、
このタイミングだからこそ、一度初心に帰り大好きな音楽を自分なりに楽しんでみようと、
今回カバーソングをしてみることになりました。
僕が好きな曲や、自分にとって大切な曲を数曲カバーさせていただきました。
一曲目は僕の尊敬するアーティストの1人でもあるSAM SMITHの「Lay Me Down」を歌ってみました。
アレンジや撮影編集、ヘアメイク衣装と、普段から仕事の域を越えて仲良くしている仲間達と、みんなで一緒に楽しみながら音楽、映像をつくることが出来ました。
たくさん聴いて、観てもらうことが僕たち作り手の幸せです。
ぜひ楽しんでください。
Thanks for...
・Music
Producer: Stephanie Topalian
Arranger: Nobuhiro Takamoto
・Movie
Photography Director: Kintaro
Producer: Nyonyo(accel inc.)
Production Manager: Satton(accel inc.)
Production: accel inc.
Director: Tatsuaki
・Hair & Makeup.
Hair & Makeup: Maki Sato
・Stylist
Stylist: SUGI(FINEST)
Stylist Assistant: Shiori Nagayam(FINEST)
Assistant: Sayaka Suzuki
・Special thanks
SAM SMITH
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THESE ATTACKS DID NOT HAPPEN.
8 extremists targeting elected officials, civilians, and military members at the White House UFC Freedom 250 event.
5 arrested in the Michigan “Pumpkin Day” plot.
4 terrorist attacks stopped in a single month last December.
And just this past weekend, another ISIS-inspired attack stopped in Pittsburgh before innocent Americans were killed.
That is what happens when the FBI and our partners work around the clock, find the threats, and STOP THEM.
We will continue hunting down anyone who plans to bring terrorism and mass violence to American soil.
-DKP🇺🇸
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⚡️The early Bitcoin holder may be one of the cleanest wealth outcomes capitalism can produce.
Think about what happened to the rare person who accumulated meaningful Bitcoin very early and actually held it.
They did not need to build a 10,000-person company.
They did not need customers.
They did not need employees.
They did not need a board.
They did not need to manage LP money.
They did not need to continually recreate the economic engine that made them wealthy.
They made one extraordinarily consequential capital-allocation decision, survived years of uncertainty, and eventually the asset itself did almost all of the scaling.
That is an incredible lifestyle outcome.
A founder worth $100M may technically have the same net worth, but much of it can be trapped inside a company requiring their attention, carrying payroll, lawsuits, competition, customers, executives, financing, and constant strategic decisions.
The early Bitcoin holder can have $100M sitting in an asset that requires almost no organizational complexity to own.
Enormous wealth. Tiny operating surface area.
That combination is rare.
There is also something profound about how the wealth was created. They recognized a new category before the world agreed the category was real.
The wealth came from carrying uncertainty.
Bitcoin looked ridiculous.
Then dangerous.
Then speculative.
Then legitimate.
Then institutional.
Every step upward removed uncertainty while also removing asymmetry.
The earliest holders were compensated for occupying the period when the world could still plausibly say the entire thing was worthless.
But survivorship bias here is enormous.
Thousands of people also concentrated into things they believed were revolutionary and lost everything.
Even among people who bought Bitcoin early, many sold at 2x, 5x, 10x, or 50x. Others lost keys. Others got destroyed by exchanges. Others overleveraged. Others simply could not psychologically carry an asset through repeated 70% to 90% drawdowns while everyone around them told them they were insane.
So the extraordinary outcome required several things to happen together:
see correctly very early, size enough for being right to matter, survive enormous volatility, preserve custody, and resist selling when the gain already looked life-changing.
That is almost impossibly difficult in real time.
The highest form of wealth creation may actually be finding a very small number of generational capital-allocation decisions rather than continually maximizing labor output.
One Bitcoin-like decision can compress decades of economic effort into ownership of the right thing at the right moment.
Afterward, the entire purpose of wealth can change.
You no longer need to optimize for more work.
You can optimize for autonomy.
Time.
Privacy.
Research.
Relationships.
Travel.
Building things because they matter to you rather than because they need to pay you.
And compared with becoming a billionaire CEO whose phone can never truly be turned off, the anonymous person who quietly owns enormous permanent capital may have won a different and arguably more valuable game.
The founder builds a machine powerful enough to create freedom later.
The generational investor finds an asset powerful enough to make the machine unnecessary.
That second outcome is incredibly rare.
But when it happens, the lifestyle asymmetry is almost absurd.
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