Charlie,

How far out of the way of the point to you go to? I AM talking about songwring, but also about the whole package. If you want one example of many I can give you one.

On the song "OUR SONG", one of her first big hits. Where we have heard that a billion times, before "our song" was what we danced to when we got married, our song was playing when our child was born, etc.

She made it about NOISES. 'A slamming door, talking low cause your Mama don't know..." it was saying the same thing that we have heard again a million times before and she said it different. and it resonated. And she was like that in most of her songs. She just said it in a way that resonated with her fans, with critics, with the press, with the public.

I am saying NOT EVERYONE CAN do what she has done. They can have looks, talent,money behind them, political power (hollywood actors) and they DON'T HAPPEN. There is no explaining it.

And singing? They used to puch EVERY NOTE of FAITH HILLS VOCALS. That is most artists now, autotuned through every thing. I have been listening to this same silly argument for five years, it gets very boring.

You are going to have to accept that she has connected with her fans well. You can either give her that, and go on about your business or just continue to complain that someone you don't deem worthy has succeeded where others you deem worthy don't. Join the crowd. Everyone has it.

Why I haven't I? I have no idea. I don't claim to be perfect. Why havebn't my students? One is doing well, Frankie Ballard, One is on the Voice, Megan Linsey, there are others in various stages of development. Will they? Have no idea. That is not my responsibility. Mine is to give them some basic groundwork in writing, performing, networking and business and point them in the direction of others. And yes, they all work hard.

Some succeed. Some don't. It is never fair, It is never right. But it is much more than just playing and singing and throwing things out there. It is a business. It is a school. And it is luck. All the things you don't care to acknowledge. I have to acknowledge them because I have to live in the real world.

MAB