Matt,

You can't view it like a lottery. With a lottery, talent never has an effect on who wins. In the music industry, it's a requirement before you can get a ticket to enter.

TAXI will NEVER make your badly written song a hit. It will NEVER get it published or placed with an artist or into a movie. But.. if you read their feedback when they say something fell short, and you work to improve and direct your efforts in the ways they suggest, you will inch closer to being good enough to actually be competitive in the process. And until you do that, nothing you do matters. You can't buy your success. If you could, all the labels would be in front of you because they have a lot more money. And the labels fail 90% of the time. So, don't view TAXI as a lottery ticket where you can throw stuff up and it might stick. It won't unless it's both good enough AND it fits the need they are trying to fill. Nothing short of that will get placed or even forwarded for that matter. But it's a great measuring stick and if you can keep from being defensive like so many artist/writers are when they get critiqued, and you are willing to enthusiastically work to raise the bar on your work and do it in the direction they suggest, you'll start to learn the difference between someone who is simple an artist, and someone who is a commercially VIABLE artist. Big difference and something most never bother to learn.

Brian

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