We wanted to make the perfect 80s Pop record. Unapologetically and colorfully retro like it’s 1986 and MTV is playing the newest cuts. Plug into the nostalgia and enjoy! Our album is finally out now!
#synthwave
Wow
@neworder
and
@petshopboys
are giving me my whole life! Finally getting to see New Order live for the first time made me cry lol they played True Faith 😩
I really missed so many of you, my lovely beings. Our twitter page is now going to be our little secret club. Our Secret Society. Welcome initiates to the Thought Beings Mystery School, if you can see this tweet then you are part of the club 🖤 🪄
Change of plans y’all! Our album is getting signed to Aztec Records! Therefore, instead of the album dropping next month, Aztec will be releasing a few singles each month until the album release in May/June. There will be vinyl! First single drops March 11th for my birthday! 🎉
We are no longer a duo. We have officially become a trio. My trustee guitarist, songwriter, and best friend Amos is now a prominent fixture. Amos, Lemon, and Orion. Together we are Thought Beings
If you message me to collaborate and then I make a cool beat for you to sing on, why would you suddenly decide to charge me??? What is that??? That feels tacky to me. Am I wrong?
We’re here to make all the retro synth pop we didn’t get to make in our 20s because we were slaves to the corporate music machine. What you’re hearing from us now is called freedom 🔥
Our new song CROSS THE LINE with
@bunnyxmusic
is out now on
@aztec_records
! Enjoy this music video cause it’s Friday, the city is alive, and it’s time to party like it’s 1989!
Please don’t take it personal if we unfollow you. We just wanna follow those that engage with us more so we can get their notifications. I have notifications turned off for those we don’t follow. It’s for peace of mind.
I love to make music here but the “synthwave, darkwave, goth” scenes have treated us 50% great and 50% like absolute garbage. I’ve interacted with some horribly venomous humans in this scene. It ruins the fun of why I even started this band. Important decisions will be made
Today I realized that we make music for 80s fans, not other musicians. We just don’t fit in with the Synthwave community or the
#synthfam
. We are rejects. Thankfully there are a lot of 80s fans out there that keep our numbers great. The love from our beings is the most important!
I’m very picky about Synthwave, but
@Shadowrunner82
’s slow burn and churn style is beautiful, tasteful, and impressive. Alone in the Dark is a personal favorite. Check out his discography you won’t be disappointed!
I enjoy the sound but it feels like the
#Synthwave
scene is being oversaturated with ethereal dreampop or high energy outrun. Our new stuff is gonna bring back the funky and zany brightness of the early 80s. We got live trumpets! Stay tuned!
Last night we signed another movie licensing deal. This one has a bigger budget than the ones we’ve done before. And it’s just the first of other projects to come for this television network. Can’t wait to share more details with y’all soon! 🎥🎬🔥⚡️
WOW! 🎉 ONE MILLION STREAMS FOR HAZY! One million times we touched one million lives! We don’t do if for the numbers but that is quite a lot of lives we touched! Thank you for listening! 💙
I am grateful to be able to work on music every single day, anytime I want. This is a luxury I do not intend to waste. I’ve worked hard to get here and I’m gonna give it everything I’ve got. Music has my most reverent attention right now. I am so excited 😆
I love how in the 80s vocals were mixed more quietly than they are now. I miss that vocal dynamic range in lieu of a compressed wall. Trying my best to bring that back.
Personally we don’t see ourselves as Synthwave, perhaps Synthwave adjacent. But actually we are just a band from the 1980s that escaped into a time vortex to get away from the evil alien Record Label Executive and sent to the present time in order to make albums to survive.
And that’s a wrap on our next album!!! Time for final mix down and mastering. We’re gonna surprise you all with this one and just drop it on some random Friday in the next couple of months. No promo, no hype, all surprise 🎉
Thank you for not ignoring us and our new album here on twatterland. Attention is competitive on here and I appreciate the little show of support that this place has to offer. It won’t be forgotten 🖤
I’ve come to realize I don’t need Twitter for our music. It does well without this place. But I’m still here cause it’s fun. Thank you to those that are nice to me and like my band’s music. Lord know this “synth” scene has been fucking horrible to me. Your kindness is liberating
Awwww shiiiiit we just broke 20K monthly listeners!! Honestly, I don’t care how our beings listen to our music just as long as they’re listening! We don’t do this for the money, we do it for the ears. Thank you to our Spotify beings!💙💙💙
People are dying out there, be fucking nice and just let people make music for whatever fucking reason they want. Who cares if it’s vapid? Who cares if they wanna be famous? DO YOU and fuck everyone else.
I won’t be doing the Spotify wrapped this year but I am still blown away that Hazy has over ONE MILLION STREAMS. Self released too, which means we make all the money. You have no idea all the music you funded just by listening to Hazy 🖤
Thanks to the few of you that don’t make me feel like I’m tweeting into the void. Life is hard. The struggles are real. A handful of you give a shit and I thank you.
We just signed the contract and received payment for our very first video game! Our music is going to be all over a new VR game dropping next year! Can’t wait to play it! 🎮
A couple of Synthwave singers treated us like complete shit on top of being largely ignored by other Synthwave artists as well. I mean I’m used to the brutality of the industry, I just thought this “community” would be different. Knowledge is power tho.
21K monthly listeners on Apple Music. 22K monthly listeners on Spotify. And over a million streams combined on YouTube. I don’t give a shit how much money we make from streams. I just care how many lives I’ve touched with the song in my heart.
Is it odd to feel hated by many other artists? Like they just don’t even want to bother interacting with me. I feel destined for a lifetime of artistic solitude. Thankful for my band mates and the handful of you that see me.
I've been in the music industry since I was 15 y/o. It truly fucked me up psychologically. But these past 2 years were eye opening. I no longer have any desire for the hustle, no more networking, performing, or submitting music. All I have left is my love of making music 🖤
My DMs be wildin lately. One of the stars of NBC’s This is Us messaged me. I guess their hair and makeup department are fans of Thought Beings. They wanna put me and Lemon’s character drawings on a gift bag lol good times. Happy Saturday!
It’s official! We just signed the contract with NewRetroWave to be in the official soundtrack for this movie. It was such an honor to be invited to create music for this film! Making ooky spooky synth music was so much fun! Dream come true! Coming Halloween!
After an abysmal 2 years full of personal tragedy and trauma it’s nice to finally get through the other side and feel a sense of empowerment. Going to the UK was the catalyst for such a rebirth. I feel free again 🖤
No record label, no paid advertising, no submissions to tastemakers, no allegiance to genre, no depending on anyone but our songs, a completely 100% independent album release on the way…
As 1990 arrived and Synthpop started hearing the death rattle from the invasion of Grunge, these hero’s fought valiantly with their most incredible albums to date. I call them the dark albums. The Dark Triad. Synthpop’s final fight for the spotlight.
Summertime surprise from the vaults! Lemon and Orion made this cover for a fashion show back in the day. Time to dance! Only available for a limited time! Free download!
I’ve never really felt at home in any artist community. The competitive energy always turned me off. Lemon too. That’s why we are the way we are. Weirdos hiding behind the shadows of our own creations
Being able to pay my bandmates is one of the best feelings in the world. We never thought this little side project would amount to something so fun and to be heard by so many. Six years strong working alongside the loveliest beings I know. Thank you world for listening.
Why do artists keep justifying their existence on Twitter? Be unapologetically you! Fuck what you heard! I want my artists to be larger than life and unbothered by the noise! I wanna see someone wrapped up in their own fantasy so much that it makes me wanna dive in.
My close friend and agent says to keep a Twitter presence even tho I find it insufferable. Honestly I don’t think our music needs it. But he says to keep posting and responding to our listeners. So I’m here, posting regularly for those that love our music. I’m here for YOU 🖤🎶
What I love about Twitter is people sharing what they love and what makes them proud. In this horrifying existence I know how much these moments mean to them. It’s a little piece of joy in an otherwise broken reality. Don’t take that away from people with judgment and ridicule 🖤
Our next single with
@bunnyxmusic
is a floor stompin 80s freestyle electro number with lots of hit strings, lasers, and lovely melodies of heartbreak in the city. Drops in 2 weeks! Get ready to dance!
After coming out of one of the worst emotional valleys I’ve experienced in a while, to the point of fantasizing my death, it feels good to be my old self again. I appreciate the handful of you that checked in. That was nice. Luckily my band mates were there for me. My real fam 🖤
Woke up to see over 2K streams on just the first night! And the CDs are selling like hotcakes too! Not bad for a fully independent release. We’re relieved and happy to see our fellow beings were ready for this journey. Hope you have just as much fun listening as we had making it!
Today I’m focusing on gratitude. Thank you
@NewRetroWave
for always supporting the songs we submit. I love being a NewRetroWave artist! Where my fellow NewRetoWavers at? Aren’t they the best? 💜🔥
All my years working in the brutality of the music industry taught me one thing: People can judge you and your art all up and down. They can project intentions onto anything you make to satisfy their own narrative. But the truth is; they don’t know shit.
Ever since I deleted twitter from my phone my mental health has improved exponentially. That being said I will still be popping in from time to time to say hello, give you updates, and interact with our lovely beings. Stay tuned for lots of new music and collabs on the way!
Thank you for being nice to me on here 🥰 many times I’ve wanted to quit Twitter but my friend/agent says I have excellent engagement for the amount of followers I have. So I’m gonna keep at it.
I don’t consider us to be Synthwave or anything. We’re just a simple band from the 80s that got trapped in a wormhole in 1985 and now we’re here picking up right where we left off. That’s our genre.
My mom just sent me a pic of my bedroom in junior high. I can’t believe I used to use physical sequencers and 4 track tape recorders from the pawn shop lol