{"id":954,"date":"2018-09-10T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?p=954"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:36:05","slug":"laughing-at-myself-the-emotional-roller-coaster-of-a-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/laughing-at-myself-the-emotional-roller-coaster-of-a-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing At Myself &#8211; The Emotional Roller Coaster Of A New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The roller coaster of emotional phases that come while mixing, mastering and delivering a new album always seem to catch me off guard.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>OK, just do it\u2026. make it happen (trepidation)<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m making it happen! (resolute and motivated)<\/li>\n<li>Hey, I\u2019m getting a lot better at this! I rock! (elation)<\/li>\n<li>Geez, this takes a long time (boredom)<\/li>\n<li>Man, everyone else\u2019s stuff is so cool and mine is so boring (dejected)<\/li>\n<li>A new day\u2026.this one is so freaking great! (ego bias)<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s the point? Nobody is going to listen anyway\u2026 it\u2019s going to disappear into the abyss (pre-release depression)<\/li>\n<li>Maybe one day it will help someone somewhere, and I hope they tell me (altruistic resignation)<\/li>\n<li>Hey, I\u2019ve got ___ albums out! Go me! (pride)<\/li>\n<li>Collapse in exhaustion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A humorous, self-aware list cataloguing the emotional phases, from trepidation and elation through boredom, dejection, and pre-release depression, that the author cycles through while mixing, mastering, and releasing a new album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[326,273,444,210,84,263,275],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","tag-album","tag-creativity","tag-emotions","tag-imperfections","tag-koabd","tag-motivation","tag-self-discovery"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"A relatable, funny read for musicians and creators who ride the emotional highs and lows of finishing a project, naming each phase from trepidation to exhausted pride.","citation_snippet":"Dr. Kathryn Messegee (Kathryn Colleen), \"Laughing At Myself - The Emotional Roller Coaster Of A New Album,\" https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/laughing-at-myself-the-emotional-roller-coaster-of-a-new-album\/","topics":["music"],"related_book":"","buy_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}