Stand Alone - The Combine feat. Feather & Rhyme Flow

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My last upload was October 8th 2019. I'm starting to realize that I am not going to be able to make new music. Not for a while. Not while my jaw won't allow it. So here's the next best thing: Time to unearth and let loose unreleased tracks. Or make videos to existing songs that never got their own feature.

Thankfully, I had one loaded in the chamber, and hadn't uploaded it. It's a good way to kick it off.

Even better? It was with some of my favorite musicians.

Storytime: One of my favorite vocalists, the absolutely wonderful Feather had given me a vocal sample she had given out to another group many years ago, and felt I could possibly do something with it. It was the Dido Chorus that Eminem used for 'Stan' but Ponified to Luna. It was haunting, quiet, and beautiful.

Years later, after she had fallen off the face of the music scene, another one of my favorite musicians 'The Combine' had helped me with 'Thunderbird' wanted to know if there was anything I had in the attic. I gave them Feather's vocal, and they created the track which you will hear as 'Stand Alone'.

This is a song about my peers in the Brony Fandom. It's about the artists, and the enthusiasts who wanted to catch the wave and either enjoy the new relationships built from the Fandom or hone their craft towards their future dreams.

More specifically, it's about those who "grew out" of the fandom. Because they stopped watching the show... or they thought it wasn't 'cool' anymore, or they needed to rebrand their image, or they felt that the work they had made was now embarrassing to show future investors or their current peer group.

I get it.

I really do. It takes a lot of courage to publicly out yourself as a Brony. It takes even more courage to do it in the face of those who've had the image tainted by media, soured by extremist hypersexualized fans, or just didn't have the open-mindedness to understand what exactly took place in those short years.

The point of "Stand Alone" was to say, even if you threw away everything Brony; even if you deleted your content... rebranded yourself. Hid away all of the fan gear, and cringe pony paraphernalia in a dark attic. Even if you pretended you were NEVER part of it, and you laughed at it with your new peer group. IT STILL MADE YOU WHO YOU ARE. It was still that bright color that changed the entire shade of your personality. It was that ingredient that gave you the courage to make friends, or those long hours spent honing your skill be it art, music, or design.

Maybe you make music for Hollywood, maybe you're the voice for an amazing new cartoon or videogame, maybe you are the member of a band that's about to go platinum, or work for a modern fashion company. Or maybe it's something as simple as you work in a lab or law firm and you're the life of the party.

Whatever you did with me and everyone else 8+ years ago, it changed you. For the better, and that's nothing you can throw away, delete, or unlist.

Now? Now you can Stand Alone.