Patrick Hicks Interview

Patrick Hicks is a content creator on TikTok. In less than a year, he’s created a channel with nearly 300,000 followers by simply telling great music stories really well. “I started making videos on TikTok because my wife challenged me to do a new creative project for 30 days,” explains Patrick. “This was in April 2022. We both watch a ton of TikTok and send videos back and forth to each other all day, so I thought it would be fun to make a TikTok channel. I thought: I know a lot of cool music stories, I’ll try telling some.”

How did you get to where you are today, professionally?

Well I’m not a professional music journalist so I’ll have to just tell you how I got to where I am today… amateurly. I started making videos on TikTok because my wife challenged me to do a new creative project for 30 days. This was in April 2022. We both watch a ton of TikTok and send videos back and forth to each other all day, so I thought it would be fun to make a TikTok channel. I thought: I know a lot of cool music stories, I’ll try telling some. The first couple videos didn’t do much, then the fifth video got a few thousand views, then they started getting tens of thousands of views. Within a couple weeks I had a video with a million views (it was on the origin story of Prince). And the follower count just kept growing. So I decided to keep going past the 30 days of the challenge. Now I’ve done hundreds of videos and I have over 250,000 followers, it’s very surreal.

Did you have any mentors along the way? What did they teach you?