Artists! Are you trying to make a hit or music that you love?

I noticed something while going through interviews and discussion boards. There seems to be this notion that your goal is intrinsically to create a hit song. Personally, I subscribe to the idea that if you make a song that you are proud of, you have succeeded. To me, this feels like the best way to resonate with a listener because often discerning listeners can detect a lack of authenticity, so to speak, more so in recent years. I think that is where the idea of an "industry plant" is significant to this conversation.

I also believe that creating a hit song, while extraordinarily beneficial to someone's career, is just part of the process, as though it will happen if you continue growing as an artist or by mistake sometimes. Of course, there are tried and tested methods of creating a popular or catchy song, I understand that. Labels seem to be pursuing "Tik Tok" songs for their artists and the average length of charting songs has dwindled. I can't help but feel that there is something lost with this ideology but perhaps it's my own reservations. What do you think?

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