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I agree with Marc. Also if you take 10 people and give them all the exact same amount of money, exposure media time etc... Somebody is STILL going to HAVE to out sell somebody else.

The big key & point is the CHANCE to even have that happen.

And usually that chance comes with at least one or any combo of the following.

Drive
Focus
Talent (of some kind, especially of appeal)
Work
Patience
Commitment
CONNECTIONS
Networking
Money & support
Attitude
Perceived (how others see you)

The problem in these discussions is as often the case is one person thinks everything on radio & TV is bad and the other thinks well if it is and it sells it MUST be good.
How whacky can we be? lol
I always lived in the middle. Also how can I be a pro anything
if I do not think straight with an open mind.
Am I a fan or a pro? Both? yes but what's more important on a daily basis?

Do you think because I have the slightest ability to sit down and make some pretty cool somewhat sophisticated music/playing with NO lyrics even and work with people who are smoking good,
that I stick my nose out at popular music or other kinds of music? Nope! Luckily for me I work with & LOVE both. Not all but some as certain current music I can not just "feel" And I write & make simple current catchy songs as well. I ALWAYS surprise the others I work with when showing them the other styles.

EVERYTHING in life is basically about perspective!!


You can LOVE football & hate figure skating, but spend a a full day or a week with those who do figure skate professionally and love figure skating. You may not LOVE it still but you may have a whole new perspective on it and perhaps some respect for it after wards.
Young girls love Taylor Swift and I can totally see why, so do some boys and again I can see why. So do some older woman, well that is also because they don't have a Streisand around anymore
either. Really the Celines's and that whole approach style is kinda absent on THEE chart today.

I'm lucky, as tonight an amazing musician is coming over to play on an instrumental I wrote and it's gonna be smoking, but better yet FUN & positive, educational and it will mean something.
Then Sunday OUR own little Taylor, Kacey will be over to bring us smack dead into one aspect of totally current pop chart music.
It will be fun, positive, educational and it will mean something.

Watch a kid come up with 3 catchy melodies over the same three chords before you can even come up with ONE!

I just wish I was healthy enough to enjoy it to the fullest. The fact that I can still even be involved is surprising enough to me. Makes me glad I'm a bit of a producer as well

Don't or try not to pin yourself into ANY corner, if somethings not your bag don't dwell & focus on it so much move on. Yes there is lots of very lousy music on the radio. Lousy by the standards of what has come before it, that is a fact, but ask yourself WHAT does it have to do with YOU?

Peace
Mike