An album built in public, one real conversation at a time — and the comments are the A&R meeting.
What “Why?” is
Why? is an album about doubt, built in public. Every track starts as a real recorded conversation between Rick (Codename: Curse Breaker) and the people he works with — the questions most of us avoid: why do I believe what I believe? Why wouldn't I want to know the truth about myself? Then the process itself goes on camera: the moment a sentence becomes a hook, the songwriting forks, the demo — and the community votes in the comments on what resonates and what should change before anything is called final. That's not a gimmick; it's the label's A&R. The album opens with Grateful Are the Great, born the day “I'm struggling right now” was answered with we GET to — gratitude as the oxygen for the climb, not the reward for the summit. New tracks land as the conversations happen. Listen free on Mi.
We Get To — the making of Grateful Are the Great
Tracks
- 1Grateful Are the GreatRick: Codename: Curse Breaker3:01
The album, front to back
The album's spine is a question mark. The seed conversations keep circling the same cliff edge: doubt — reframed in Rick's words as a worthless counterfeit that walks in dressed like the truth. Track one answers the overwhelm question with the oldest medicine said new (we get to); the tracks that follow are already on the tape, waiting their turn. Unlike every album before it, Why? has no private audition pool: demos publish, the room reacts, and the final cuts are shaped by whoever shows up. Watch it get built, song by song.
The questions, in Rick's words
“Grateful are the great. In order to be great you must be grateful.” — Rick
“Are we missing the point of the game — to have gratitude in the middle of the game?” — Rick
“We're in the middle of blessings all the time.” — Rick
About Rick (Curse Breaker)
Rick: Codename: Curse Breaker breaks generational curses out loud. His weekly recorded sessions are real conversations — doubt, gratitude, truth, punishment, the whole terrain — and this album turns them into songs while the community watches it happen and helps steer.
Mi. — iM HEARD · songs made from real conversations, each one written for the person who lived it.