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Even More Perspective!!!

ANYONE can write ANY KIND of song they want all day all night for the rest of there life.

No one is stopping you. Okay follow me now, you want to become a proffesional
song writer and make a living from doing it.
You would like to be able to feed yourself and your family, maybe pay rent or buy a home and pay a morgage. You may even want to have HEALTH benefits, there dirt cheap so don't sweat it.

Are you with me so far? Okay you may have or want to start a family that's also cheap. Pay school tuition! have a decent vehicle to drive..... Pay a slew of bills etc... etc....etc....

You want to become or maybe already are ONLY A SONGWRITER okay?
There is no other job....

Now you can forget about all those things above and get a job a really really good one. Or maybe you even have one already?

If you can't live without the above things and you are only a songwriter get a rope
and look for a high enough beam

WAKE UP You basically got only a few choices.

1- You write Country Music Songs, any style of it is acceptable, but lol,, make sure there up tempo Different styles Loads of rules.... and loads of competion

2- You write songs geared for Teenagers, YES teenagers the ones who thrive & drive
the music industry, The kind that Jason Blume writes and many others, they can range from pop/pop - pop/rock - pop/R&B and Hi Hop

3 - You are the Artist yourself so your song writing can be different.
Oh yes it can, you can have songs that only make sense to you & your girlfriend or boy friend and win a Grammy for it.
But either way they are not made for selling to others/getting cut by others...
And be careful with your time ,your gonna get old for the music business very quickly....

So go ahead and write any kind of song you like, but don't expect to be able to
get a cut, or be able to do all the things I listed above from it.

Not saying you can't write a GREAT future classic song by all means please do.. but what puts food on your table tonight?

So maybe someone sacrificed TRUE GREATNESS to make some bucks, maybe they are sitting home wishing they had a Born To Run or a Dark Side Of The Moon in them but don't. I feel for them for I feel the same way. I understand.

So they got GREAT at doing what they do.... How do we know what the deal is in there life... It's still be pretty damn cool if it was YOU!

ANYONE can write ANY KIND of song they want all day all night for the rest of there life. Now go TRY to get paid to do it! Or get some sleep you got to wake up early for work tomorrow.


Family before pride!