Originally Posted by Dan Sullivan
MAB is absolutely right. It's something I learned a long time ago but occasionally forget. Praise should be shouted from the rooftops. Correction should be done in private.

So you don't think people should be posting their lyrics in the three lyric forums for critique?

What do you do? Read the lyric and if it is badly written, has terrible meter, and full of overused cliches, do you say Good job? Wonderful lyric, you need to go spend a few hundred bucks and get it demoed? It's bound to be a hit?

Or don't say anything because you can't say anything nice? Either way you validate the lyric.

Then a new writer comes in, reads all those high rooftop praises of crap and thinks OK that's how to write a song.

I'd suggest you don't attend a Nashville NSAI publisher critique night unless you have a perfect lyric and a very thick skin. You will be sorely disappointed. You'll be in a room with about 75 other wishful writers. Nothing private about that.

Last edited by Bill Robinson; 07/30/10 07:04 PM.
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