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~Mondo.NYC Presents: The Songwriter & the New Normal
----) Tuesday, April 28, 2020, 4:30pm ET/1:30pm PT (----
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How will the songwriting process change A.C. (after COVID-19)?
Will topics and themes be more vulnerable or triumphant?
How will be writing impacted if you need to collaborate virtually?
Who knows?
Songwriters are a resilient bunch -- maybe we’ll jump right back into the water, but that’s doubtful.
Please join this discussion about how we will emerge from Zoom and get back into the room where it all happens.

Panelists Include:

David Bassett, songwriter/producer
Sam Hollander, songwriter/producer
MILCK, singer-songwriter
Victoria Shaw, songwriter/producer

Moderator:

Shelly Peiken – songwriter, founding member, Songwriters of North America (SONA)~

Hey...Victoria produced a cd one of my songs was on.

Covid won't change songwriting one iota. The quality of records being released in 2021, 2022 etc will be the same or slightly lower, and pop music will continue to suffer from the same entropy it has since its peak in the 60s.

I don't think the pandemic will play a role in my song-writing output. I prefer to write without co-writers and thus have only me to blame if my song idea and follow-through plummet to the depths of the River Styx! LOL!

I have a different view. I think if you're gonna get good at anything, you have to be alone alot. You want to get good on piano? Prepare to be alone alot. Wanna get good at free throws? Prepare to practice shots, by yourself alot. Want to get into Medical School, prepare to be alone a lot and study by yourself.

Especially writing, everything you have ever written, you were alone doing it, even if you collaberate, and writing by nature is a loners way of being heard.

which is why the business gets some eccentric people in it, they dont know how to be the life of the party or communicate.

Quarantine is a natural habitat for writers, ironically I haven't written anything during it, I was confused and stunned by it all. I was just on the verge of hanging out recorded music on fiverr when this happened. It's time to get back to it, I had gone over a lot of stuff.

Actually I did write one lyric, meh, nothing mind bending.

I would. agree 60s had the best music in all genres, but today music has a different purpose. It no longer needs to be the main course, it's a side dish

Before social media people couldn't be heard and music spoke for many, now everybody is their own star, and everything they think and feel can be discussed with one click

I'm not sure anybody today, even people who grew up with the music, could sit through a listen of The Whos Tommy, without doing anything else. I used to spend hours with headphones on listening to epic rock records, it was an experience, one that is not needed today.

songwriters will continue to write songs that fill the need of the times.

If we had to start all over, and today was 1960, I think I the songs would go back to that. It's not that the talent is gone, taleynt is in the genes, it's that writers copy what came before them. The artists who followed the beatles had the best to copy from.

Shew this tablet corrects everything i type, and they are wrong corrections. Dont know where they get the words they type...

But I think I fixed it all above