If I were you, I wouldn't have done that. If she won't listen, let her get burned. Any thing else is enabling. She needed "tough love."

Let her see this post.

This is a classic way that a demo studio uses someone's naivete and ego to make money. It is disrepsect for a studio to try to make a songwriter think the studio wants to publish the song because it is hit quality, yet the studio wants the songwriter to pay for the demo. One of the classic come ons is to say that they are investing half of the demo cost. Usually, they are not. Your "half" pays for the whole demo and they leave with money in their pockets. It is also disrepect that a studio would want to be a cowriter with a songwriter but NOT LET THE SONGWRITER HAVE THEIR PHONE NUMBER!!! I'd never write with someone who didn't trust me enough to give me their phone number. Now, if they were writing for a fee, and not asking for any of the copyright, that would be different. Still, most of the "writing music for a fee" deals are not very good. Best is to find a cowriter who trusts you, who you trust, and when you get a good song and you AND YOUR TEAM agree that this song is worth investing money in, then you do a demo.

Speaking of teams...a team can protect you from spending money on people who do not respect you. Your sister is trying to help you here. The best help she offered was to warn you against this. She would be a good team member for you. You can do a search here on "team" and "teams" to find some good ideas about building a team of advisers to help you make good decisions in your songwriting and/or music career.

Spending money for a studio that doesn't respect you enough to give you a phone number, yet says they respect you enough to want to cowrite a song with you, is not a good business decision.

I don't know this company, I don't want to know. They may be doing everything perfectly legally, and they probably are. But it is NOT a good business idea to give up half of your song and PAY someone to do it.

All the Best,
Mike

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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