Read the rest of it i edited it
Sorry not sure what you mean... What should i be looking at?... Ta!
"One question: What's the point of a amazing song if no one hears it?
I feel once you find the rules you can start to jump around them a bit for your own songs. Writing songs from your heart without considering what the listener wants could be argued as being selfish? This isn't really changing what you write it's changing how you write and the tools you have at your disposal, think if you had no way of knowing what words make sentence structure. How would you write at all? That's all this is, a structure to put your songs in.
If you're looking for a success story - the title for this thread seems to be working (and i made it in about 5 seconds). Check out the views and number of responses compared to others keeping in mind the time frame. "
Just cos I'm posting in this thread doesn't mean you're making any money out of it!
I totally agree that everyone can improve at their songwriting if they aren't too insular and introspective and learn from others' opinions and other successful pieces of writing. It's the writing to a formula bit i object to - especially when the formula is all about being controversial and attention seeking. As if following the formula and forgetting everything that's important to you is somehow a panacea. Maybe we should all be twerking our way to global superstardom
You're already writing to a formula (English language, rhyme schemes, grammar, spelling, how you feel) You just disagree with the formula I'm presenting because being popular now days automatically means your a sell out.
You can look at is as attention seeking or entertainment. Almost everyone hated Mileys twerking but boy we sure do love speaking about it. It's entertaining, of course she could have done more subtle things to slowly amp up her popularity than going balls out but I'm glad she gave me something funny to talk about.
What is attention seeking? Dying your hair, putting on makeup, wearing a new outfit, making a joke to get a laugh, drinking all night knowing you're going to make a scene? We all do it, there are just social norms that some people seem to get a headache about when people break them. Twerking on stage at a award event - bad, grinding against a guy at a club - good? Only difference is the amount of people who see it. Again i think it's all a balancing act.
Actually i didn't mention money, don't start thinking that's all i care about. I look at both sides of the coin and share the side most people are reluctant to accept as a requirement to make it.