iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joshua Taipale @atelierjoshua.co · 10/01/2025

For months, I thought hard about what it could mean for a song to be objectively “good”. The real answer is, of course, that there is no answer. But the conclusion I reached was that the closest thing to “objectively good” was “honest”. A song that reveals the artist’s feelings and perspectives.

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Joshua Taipale @atelierjoshua.co · 10/01/2025

This is surprisingly hard to do. You can’t exactly trust your instincts, because your instincts lie to you to protect you. My best music was written when I denied my instincts and wrote what was hard. You might cringe at what you write, and it might be that that’s exactly what you should write.

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Joshua Taipale @atelierjoshua.co · 10/01/2025

An important part of this realization for me was understanding why people respond with disgust to clichés — not boredom, *disgust*. It’s not that the ideas are overused, but that they’re often used as shortcuts when the artist doesn’t know how to or doesn’t want to be honest with themselves.

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