Wow,

We always get back to Taylor Swift don't we. Well, she was unknown. She wrote a song called "Tim McGraw' by herself for a talent contest at her school when she was 14 years old. She didn't send in any anonomys songs because she didn't have to. Several people told other people about her and she ended up with a Sony publishing executive with very long track record. He helped her be developed over a period of two years.

She attracted several people including a woman who had been around called Liz Rose. The reason she attracted Liz, Scott Borchetta and everyone else is because she stood out from the other 20,000 American Idol and Nashville Star Wanna be's who were young, blonde, attractive and could half way sing. She stood out from a pack that tons of people were trying to promote the same way and blew away people every single time. At the same time a hollywood actress with ten times the promotional money tried to do the same thing and went nowhere.

I just don't get the belittling nature of people that dismiss her. from my point of view, that is simply ignorance. But that is fine. As Ringo Starr once said, "When we started out, people laughed at us." So history repeats itself.

She appeals to a HUGE audience and is the biggest thing going on in music. She is respected by the biggest names in show business and you cannot fake that. Too many people try and fail.

Nadia,

The fact is that everybody is a nobody at first. And most of us never do much. That is the nature of the beast. Nobody sent for any of us. Nobody can force people to like us or our music. But it does no good to be dissapointed or dejected. You just have to keep working.

Thomas Edison failed 3,999 times before he invented the incandessant light bulb. I think you should read some biographies on some of your favorite writers, artists, composers, etc. and find out what they went through. You will probably find out it was constant rejection, constant dissapointment. And the truth is that when people "make it" which is a very subjective term, many times they are no happier than before they were anybody.

Just be the best you can be. Reach out to others and find allies. You have to have more than just some ideas on songs or songs. You have to have a team of people who believe in you and promote you as much as you promote you. That is a career.

MAB