If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.
I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.