The problem of one hit wonder is that it is like smoke. It is gone before you realise.
Why? Because it entails gaining the spotlight before you learn how to work the lights. It is gaining massive recognition before you have attained mastery.
And popularity is sometimes the death of creativity because it entails a kind of work separate and perhaps more complicated than attaining mastery. It is a distraction, which is why it often calls on those who have attained a certain amount of mastery in their craft to set aside time for publicity and media.
Recognition has its place, it is supposed to come to buttress mastery, not take its place. Because, really, nothing can take the place of doing the work and allowing that work to make the noise first before any other form of recognition is initiated.
It entails understanding when to avoid the spotlight before you are ready for your master performance. It entails staying in the shadows for as long as possible while doing the hard work.
Thus, instead of chasing popularity and massive recognition, an artist should focus on mastering their craft, knowing its intricacies so well that they can afford to thereafter set aside time for media and its publicity in order to avoid the fast life, quick fade that plagues one-hit wonders.
