JPF Home Page Forums General Messages General Message Forum So Where Does Your Song Rank On Ourstage?

Kevin, the comment has to be in the context of you desiring to have commercial success. It's like opening a paint store. If you put the pain in a container that works for your customers and makes them happy and they buy it, you're serving their needs as your customers. If you put it in some type of container that they hate, simply because you like it that way, then you're serving your ego and you're not going to do very well. Same with music. If you WANT to pursue selling music, you HAVE to give people what they actually want. It's not a social experiment where your goal is to change the entire worlds perceptions. Sometimes that actually happens by accident.. (i.e. someone does something very different but people catch on to it and love it) but I think it rarely happens when 1 single person plans it that way. I know a lot of folks who take that approach.. most aren't selling CD's or getting gigs or airplay.

I actually appreciate weird approaches to music. That's because I do this for a living and it's a specific area of interest. If I go to McDonalds.. most of the time I want a hamburger and fries. Sure, they could stop serving those and instead serve soybean burgers exclusively. They might feel that is more politically correct or healthy. And that's great. I just would't go back there nor would most other people who eat there. Instead, they give us what we want, even if it's not the healthiest or most environmentally/socially positive thing they can do. And of course they sell a LOT of hamburgers.

Music is no different. To you, it's your life and heart and soul. To most, it's just another choice of hamburgers or soy burgers.

Make your choice and be happy with the results. Don't like the results? Change your approach. But many want to do it their way only and then want to blame everyone else for their failure.. (the labels, the radio stations, the public.. blah blah blah). I see how people vote in our awards each time. It sometimes boggles my mind that they choose the clearly inferior song over the clearly better song.. but it's their choice and I learned from that. I see it happening in real time and I have to accept the fact. I actually think sometimes what makes really cool art of any kind (including music) special is that only a few people get it.. when it becomes the accepted norm, people who like unique art will run it down. If you have a type of music that is unique, artists and the like will praise it's originality and awesomeness.. once the masses adopt it as well, those same folks will insult it and say it's a sell out and it sucks. But it's the same exact thing as before.

Aren't humans great? = )

Brian