Originally Posted by E Swartz
CHANGE-UP...............Now I get see and get how all this contention has developed..........."Fairweather Friends!" Wow Tom, remarkable how your lyrics inspired all this! If the title had been "Best Friends" this thread would be a "horse with a different color!" (tongue in cheek)

Please all, p-ssing contests are a circle of nowhere until people get too tired. Just move on, we all naturally want to defend our honor and dignities, but its not hard to be respectful and congenial--damn easier actually. There are many personalities on this site for sure, if you don't get along with someone, just ignore them, if you like someone, great--you have a music acquaintance.

Critiques are good and honesty is necessary, but its "how" you say what you say that is matters, and in the end no critic can be unbiased totally anyhow; so opinion cannot escape a critic. (If you don't like a song.......is it that hard just to say, "here area a couple sugs IMO that I think could improve your song and here's why)?" What makes an excellent critic is knowledge in music, lyrical composition, arrangements, & experience in the art. Having said that, the lay person's reactions to songs are also important. A combination of creativity, art, knowledge, and experience along with the lay person's reaction are essential in creating a great song. The creative part, IMO is what makes the difference--in good songwriting, hearing a melody with a chord progression, or lyrics dancing in your head.

Yes John, I remember so many that either have passed or just moved on due to contention in the forums. Fde is correct about Social Media probably also being a large factor on this site's decline. However, I'm getting sick of all the ad-crap on SM. I actually spend more time, when not working, texting good friends and interacting in that manner. I had lots of sugs for this site, but changes are not cheap, and no one wants to spend more on a site that's not growing--I get it. I always wanted a critique forum where there were "multiple choice" sugs for the poster and also a menu of "what" type of opinion/advice they were seeking primarily. Also anonymous or critic listed preference. The other sug I had on posting was two songs posted on a page is enough until one falls to that deep pit on page 2..............I sincerely believe that more people will listen to one song or maybe two than if you post several close together--JMO.

Oh well, the young folks never hang around here very long, so I guess we'll all get old together!

steady-eddie

Unfortunately, all of this BS has nothing to do with my song. The song was merely hijacked, like so many do on other sites, as well.